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Why won't Dr HHH take me serious?
Why won't Dr HHH take me serious? 3 weeks after making out with a stripper and frottage I presented with all the symptoms of ARS. I now have been diagnosed with post infectious neuropathy by a neurologist which started about 10 days after i recovered from my illness. It's been going on for more than a week and I've read that this type of neuropathy (tingling, burning in feet and hands, numb legs and feet, burning in legs, dry skin, etc) can happen during seroconversion and this specific type of neuropathy is the most common seen in HIV seroconversion. So, my doctors didn't know what was wrong with me - it wasn't the flu, wasn't strep or mono...does this all just point to HIV? I know you all are gonna say I'm crazy and to let this go but it's impossible after presenting with all these symptoms. I've tested negative at 40 days but I know I'm gonna have to wait another LONG 6 weeks to get a definitive result.
What is wrong with me???
How hard is it to get HIV through making out? Does there have to be a lot of blood transmitted or can just a little cut that's bleeding produce enough of the virus to get inside a small cut in my mouth?
Can someone please tell me what i need to do. Should I have my Doc do other tests like viral load, etc?
What is wrong with me???
How hard is it to get HIV through making out? Does there have to be a lot of blood transmitted or can just a little cut that's bleeding produce enough of the virus to get inside a small cut in my mouth?
Can someone please tell me what i need to do. Should I have my Doc do other tests like viral load, etc?
No one is picking on you.
What do you expect people to say, when the only risks you had were kissing and genital rubbing, and negative tests to boot? You didn't have a risk to begin with, and you've had proper negative tests. 3 months is being hyper conservative in a cover your a@@ type of way. Did you read where Dr. HHH was at a world wide conference with hundreds of HIV specialists, and he asked if anyone had ever seen a patient who was negative at 6 weeks, later turn positive? Not a single person had. If that means nothing to you, then that should be a sign to you that your thinking is not normal in this incidence.
If those were your only incidents, you didn't even need the test in the first place. If a doctor led you to believe you did, he/she was wrong. If they asked if you had been exposed to HIV, the correct answer from you would have been "no". No elaboration needed, b/c you didn't have unprotected sex, anal sex, or shared injection drugs, or had a blood transfusion.
I think our replying to you is worsening your paranoia, and I apologize for doing so. It won't happen again. You are negative, you need to accept it and move on. If you can't, get help.
What do you expect people to say, when the only risks you had were kissing and genital rubbing, and negative tests to boot? You didn't have a risk to begin with, and you've had proper negative tests. 3 months is being hyper conservative in a cover your a@@ type of way. Did you read where Dr. HHH was at a world wide conference with hundreds of HIV specialists, and he asked if anyone had ever seen a patient who was negative at 6 weeks, later turn positive? Not a single person had. If that means nothing to you, then that should be a sign to you that your thinking is not normal in this incidence.
If those were your only incidents, you didn't even need the test in the first place. If a doctor led you to believe you did, he/she was wrong. If they asked if you had been exposed to HIV, the correct answer from you would have been "no". No elaboration needed, b/c you didn't have unprotected sex, anal sex, or shared injection drugs, or had a blood transfusion.
I think our replying to you is worsening your paranoia, and I apologize for doing so. It won't happen again. You are negative, you need to accept it and move on. If you can't, get help.
hey dude,
I imagine the reason you were told not to come back was to save resources!!
You're testing way too much.
No one on here thinks you've had a risk. kissing is a no risk activity, no matter what it says anywhere else. It's a no risk activity, I promise you. Keep testing, but you'll keep testing negative.
Actually, you've no idea how much good you've done me. You have every symptom in the book, yet I know you haven't got HIV. Ergo, symptoms are misleading!:)
I imagine the reason you were told not to come back was to save resources!!
You're testing way too much.
No one on here thinks you've had a risk. kissing is a no risk activity, no matter what it says anywhere else. It's a no risk activity, I promise you. Keep testing, but you'll keep testing negative.
Actually, you've no idea how much good you've done me. You have every symptom in the book, yet I know you haven't got HIV. Ergo, symptoms are misleading!:)
Why is everyone picking on me? I got sick, I went to the hospital the doctor asked me if I'd recently been exposed to HIV and told me to get an HIV test. So, now I'm scared shitless even though I know I shouldn't be. Do you guys actually think that I ever thought I could get HIV through making out with a girl? I would have never even thought about this had the doctor not mentioned it. She mentions it, i look up hiv through kissing, it says "low risk" and i freak out. I have ALL the symptoms exactly 3 weeks after the exposure and the docs have no idea what my illness is. Yeah I'm sure I sound crazy but it's not my fault. I promise! I just went and got tested again 46 day negative and the clinician said i can't come back for 3 more months and this negative means absolutely nothing because it hasn't been 3 months since the possible exposure. She also told me not to worry because HIV is "not a death sentence." What I wanted her to say is "You don't have HIV. You can't get HIV through making out." but no she just scared me even more now. They were very rude to me over there like they didn't want me there anymore. I guess I don't blame them. It's just hard to sit here and say "You don't have HIV." When my own doctor at the hospital questioned it and REFUSED to test me because it's not "hospital practice." How could she just leave me out on an island like that? If she was really concerned about HIV shouldn't she have done other tests?
I'm sorry everyone. As you ALL have noticed. I'm stuck. I'm stuck in the HIV trap and I can't get out. I'm doing everything I can. I get out but then I get sucked right back in. It hurts so much to sit here as a grown ass man and cry to myself because I don't know whether to believe that I am HIV negative or not. And to think that I'm about to lose my girlfriend and my "life."
I'm sorry. :(
I'm sorry everyone. As you ALL have noticed. I'm stuck. I'm stuck in the HIV trap and I can't get out. I'm doing everything I can. I get out but then I get sucked right back in. It hurts so much to sit here as a grown ass man and cry to myself because I don't know whether to believe that I am HIV negative or not. And to think that I'm about to lose my girlfriend and my "life."
I'm sorry. :(
Dude, you don't have it. That's why he won't take you seriously. It is VERY HARD TO GET HIV. Even unprotected sex with a known positive person, the odds are no greater than 1 in 1000.
You had a negative 40 day test, right? Unless my math is wrong, that's pretty darn close to 6 weeks. So you don't have it!
As I said before, post viral neuropathy is a kind of a wastebasket diagnosis. Out of the millions of viruses in the world, you pick the only one YOU COULDN'T POSSIBLY HAVE to worry about.
You had a negative 40 day test, right? Unless my math is wrong, that's pretty darn close to 6 weeks. So you don't have it!
As I said before, post viral neuropathy is a kind of a wastebasket diagnosis. Out of the millions of viruses in the world, you pick the only one YOU COULDN'T POSSIBLY HAVE to worry about.
I'm no doctor, but I think that statement that "even a small amount of blood from the mouth might transmit HIV" is a bunch of BS. For oral transmission to even have a chance of occuring, it would take a lot, and I mean A LOT, of blood from an HIV infected person's mouth being purposefully and vigorously massaged into the open sore of someone else. That's about the only way it could conceivably happen. You're worrying over nothing.
Generally, the stats take into account that a lot of people have sores, small cuts etc in their mouth. Most people get those at some time or another. Saliva kills HIV. That's why kissing is not a risk. That's why there are no documented cases of HIV transmission from receiving a BJ - because the saliva from the person giving the BJ will kill the virus and there's not enough (if any) left to transmit to the person receiving it.
This is my final post to you. You are vyinig for the most paranoid person on this site and you have had no risk.... Just get on with your life!!
This is my final post to you. You are vyinig for the most paranoid person on this site and you have had no risk.... Just get on with your life!!
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