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What happens AFTER ars?
Firstly happy new year all. May you all be healthy and happy.
2 - 3 days after my exposure my eye felt very tender (i believe due to sinues blocked) and then I got a full blown flu 6 days after exposure. I hadn't had a flu in sometime so hoped it was just the flu season, though it was quite bad and I took four days off work. I experience runny nose during this time and cough. I got better but then around just 3 weeks after that I got a cold again which has left me with chesty cough. It is strange in that it comes and goes and also I feel tonsilitis.
My question is if this was ARS (the flu after six days) what happens now? Will there be any other symptoms? Or would I feel fine. Is there anything to look out for? My saliva is quite thick.
This is the horrible nature of this illness - that one can feel fine and not know they are dying - and what makes me suffer with fear.
My life is not particularly great nor does it have much of a future so at this stage all I want to do is not infect my girlfriend.
2 - 3 days after my exposure my eye felt very tender (i believe due to sinues blocked) and then I got a full blown flu 6 days after exposure. I hadn't had a flu in sometime so hoped it was just the flu season, though it was quite bad and I took four days off work. I experience runny nose during this time and cough. I got better but then around just 3 weeks after that I got a cold again which has left me with chesty cough. It is strange in that it comes and goes and also I feel tonsilitis.
My question is if this was ARS (the flu after six days) what happens now? Will there be any other symptoms? Or would I feel fine. Is there anything to look out for? My saliva is quite thick.
This is the horrible nature of this illness - that one can feel fine and not know they are dying - and what makes me suffer with fear.
My life is not particularly great nor does it have much of a future so at this stage all I want to do is not infect my girlfriend.
Well that comment really helped to calm my nerves. Hopefully time will let this sink in but my paranoia works in strange ways and has ups and downs usually caused by feeling tired suddenly or the continous chesty cough I can't seem to shift.
No ARS is not contagious like normal flu. It is your bodies response to the antibodies produced to fight the virus.
Individuals are not high risk, sexual activities are high or low risk. You can have sex with anybody you want as long as you use a condom and you did.
Your penis could have been dripping with vaginal fluids and you still would not get HIV.
Nothing that you have told me makes you think you have any concern for HIV.
Individuals are not high risk, sexual activities are high or low risk. You can have sex with anybody you want as long as you use a condom and you did.
Your penis could have been dripping with vaginal fluids and you still would not get HIV.
Nothing that you have told me makes you think you have any concern for HIV.
That's good to know that it isn't mucus producing. It was just a really bad fever (but dry) for the first couple of days and then my nose started running (thankfully). Hopefully that doesn't mean anything.
I was wondering whether if you have ARS you can "give" the flu to others? If this makes sense. As in how normal flu's are contagious can you give someone the normal flu from your ARS flu. I would not have thought so using my common sense hat.
My risk was condom protected vaginal sex with probably the highest risk or at least one of the highest risk individuals. I was quite drunk and can't remember all the details though and that's what worries me. I definitely 100 percent wore a condom but I withdrew after only about 2 to 3 minutes. I did not enter her again after that but masturbated with her vaginal juices on my penis. I remember my penis being quite wet with the juices but I can categorically say not at any point was I unprotected inside her. Therefore according to the good people here I am not at risk but it does seem scary and risky what I did. I can't believe how stupid I was and if anything got into my urethra and infected me I will never be able to take it.
I was wondering whether if you have ARS you can "give" the flu to others? If this makes sense. As in how normal flu's are contagious can you give someone the normal flu from your ARS flu. I would not have thought so using my common sense hat.
My risk was condom protected vaginal sex with probably the highest risk or at least one of the highest risk individuals. I was quite drunk and can't remember all the details though and that's what worries me. I definitely 100 percent wore a condom but I withdrew after only about 2 to 3 minutes. I did not enter her again after that but masturbated with her vaginal juices on my penis. I remember my penis being quite wet with the juices but I can categorically say not at any point was I unprotected inside her. Therefore according to the good people here I am not at risk but it does seem scary and risky what I did. I can't believe how stupid I was and if anything got into my urethra and infected me I will never be able to take it.
Your symptoms don't sound like ARS. For a start ARS is not mucus producing.
You haven't said what your risk was?
You haven't said what your risk was?
Thanks diver, hopefully this keeps me sane a bit longer. I knew it anyway as I've done enough research on hiv in the last few months to write a book...just hoping so much that I am not that unlucky guy.
AWP117 - I don't believe they come that quickly either but please refer to a more experienced mod on the forum
AWP117 - I don't believe they come that quickly either but please refer to a more experienced mod on the forum
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