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are these early symptoms of hiv/aids?
so right now i dont know what is happening to my body.
out of no wear i just started feeling really weird
i get dizzy alot
i feel like i'm not here sort of like a dreamy state.
blurred vision
i am always tierd even if i sleep 10 hour nights.
i am also really sore alot.
and i just feel like i'm going crazy!
i dont know what is wrong with me but i dont feel normal.
i have been to the doctor once about it and they gave me anti depressant pills saying i was depressed. but they only helped for a little bit.
maybe i need a high dosage or something but i dont know.
if anyone could help me out i'd be very happy.
id like to know if its something alot of people experiance or if i'm going insane.
out of no wear i just started feeling really weird
i get dizzy alot
i feel like i'm not here sort of like a dreamy state.
blurred vision
i am always tierd even if i sleep 10 hour nights.
i am also really sore alot.
and i just feel like i'm going crazy!
i dont know what is wrong with me but i dont feel normal.
i have been to the doctor once about it and they gave me anti depressant pills saying i was depressed. but they only helped for a little bit.
maybe i need a high dosage or something but i dont know.
if anyone could help me out i'd be very happy.
id like to know if its something alot of people experiance or if i'm going insane.
I highly doubt that you have HIV and your symptoms don't suggest it.
It's not a bad idea to take a test however.
I recommend staying off the antidepressants, unless you are actually clinically depressed.
Your doctor sounds a bit like a drug dealer to me...
It's not a bad idea to take a test however.
I recommend staying off the antidepressants, unless you are actually clinically depressed.
Your doctor sounds a bit like a drug dealer to me...
Why would he need to test if he had protected sex? I thought they say thats no risk
If you have never had unprotected sex, never a condom failure and never shared works with another IV drug user then you have never had a chance of contracting HIV. No you don't need to test.
The current CDC recommendation is for all sexually active adults to get an HIV test.
Besides, taking an HIV test these days is almost as easy as asking questions on the internet.
Besides, taking an HIV test these days is almost as easy as asking questions on the internet.
CDC recommends that diagnostic HIV testing and opt-out HIV screening be a part of routine clinical care in all health-care settings while also preserving the patient's option to decline HIV testing and ensuring a provider-patient relationship conducive to optimal clinical and preventive care. The recommendations are intended for providers in all health-care settings, including hospital EDs, urgent-care clinics, inpatient services, STD clinics or other venues offering clinical STD services, tuberculosis (TB) clinics, substance abuse treatment clinics, other public health clinics, community clinics, correctional health-care facilities, and primary care settings. The guidelines address HIV testing in health-care settings only; they do not modify existing guidelines concerning HIV counseling, testing, and referral for persons at high risk for HIV who seek or receive HIV testing in nonclinical settings (e.g., community-based organizations, outreach settings, or mobile vans) (9).
Screening for HIV Infection
In all health-care settings, screening for HIV infection should be performed routinely for all patients aged 13--64 years. Health-care providers should initiate screening unless prevalence of undiagnosed HIV infection in their patients has been documented to be <0.1%. In the absence of existing data for HIV prevalence, health-care providers should initiate voluntary HIV screening until they establish that the diagnostic yield is <1 per 1,000 patients screened, at which point such screening is no longer warranted.
All patients initiating treatment for TB should be screened routinely for HIV infection (108).
All patients seeking treatment for STDs, including all patients attending STD clinics, should be screened routinely for HIV during each visit for a new complaint, regardless of whether the patient is known or suspected to have specific behavior risks for HIV infection.
He's never had unprotected sex and he's not an IV drug user so he doesn't fall within the new guidelines.
Screening for HIV Infection
In all health-care settings, screening for HIV infection should be performed routinely for all patients aged 13--64 years. Health-care providers should initiate screening unless prevalence of undiagnosed HIV infection in their patients has been documented to be <0.1%. In the absence of existing data for HIV prevalence, health-care providers should initiate voluntary HIV screening until they establish that the diagnostic yield is <1 per 1,000 patients screened, at which point such screening is no longer warranted.
All patients initiating treatment for TB should be screened routinely for HIV infection (108).
All patients seeking treatment for STDs, including all patients attending STD clinics, should be screened routinely for HIV during each visit for a new complaint, regardless of whether the patient is known or suspected to have specific behavior risks for HIV infection.
He's never had unprotected sex and he's not an IV drug user so he doesn't fall within the new guidelines.
Ah, you again with your cognitive problems....
Which part of "screening for HIV infection should be performed routinely for all patients aged 13--64 years" do you not get? Yesterday you had problems with the word "most". Today it's "all"? ))))
"....regardless of whether the patient is known or suspected to have specific behavior risks for HIV infection." Which part of that statement sounds ambiguous to you?
Which part of "screening for HIV infection should be performed routinely for all patients aged 13--64 years" do you not get? Yesterday you had problems with the word "most". Today it's "all"? ))))
"....regardless of whether the patient is known or suspected to have specific behavior risks for HIV infection." Which part of that statement sounds ambiguous to you?
)))) means LOL, same thing, smiley face, you know
Before you go much further, go to the top of this thread. Was it really me who started an argument???
Before you go much further, go to the top of this thread. Was it really me who started an argument???
I really don't think he's shallow (he has AIDS, for crisakes) nor uneducated (the guy is an HIV awareness teacher). You 2 agree on far more topics than you disagree.
Please ease off Teak. Why the hostility towards someone who is suffering from the disease we're all scared of yet devotes their time and energy into helping people who may be at risk for it?
The only motivation I can see is that Teak won't let people off the hook with a six week neg--but that doesn't deserve the hostility.
No need to fight about HIV right?
The only motivation I can see is that Teak won't let people off the hook with a six week neg--but that doesn't deserve the hostility.
No need to fight about HIV right?
Oh, give me a break
Just read this:
http://www.medhelp.org/posts/show/269651
He doesn't even know what "seroconversion" is...
Just read this:
http://www.medhelp.org/posts/show/269651
He doesn't even know what "seroconversion" is...
Ya, I do not understand regularjoey's obsession with trying to find every single nuance that Teak says that may/may not be wrong. And what does '))))))' mean? I could never figure that out...(a ton of parenthesis?). Either way he's arguing irrelevant hair split differences that frankly don't mean a single thing.
Hey, I like and respect Teak, I do, believe it or not.
What I don't like is when shallow and uneducated people attempt to give medical advice and tell others to shut up. If I had a penny for every time I've seen Teak tell others (myself included) that they shouldn't post here... This guy even got into an argument with Dr.H some months ago!!!
What I don't like is when shallow and uneducated people attempt to give medical advice and tell others to shut up. If I had a penny for every time I've seen Teak tell others (myself included) that they shouldn't post here... This guy even got into an argument with Dr.H some months ago!!!
A smiley face has eyes, :, not more chins than a chinese phonebook....
(not being too serious, but feel free to flame away, you guys always do)
(not being too serious, but feel free to flame away, you guys always do)
More or less unprotected oral both ways on a very high risk (CSW) girl...but if you believe those 'risky' acts weren't risky, why would you say that?
I always say the same exact thing to everyone
1. Oral is negligible risk for HIV, too low to worry about
2. If you're still worried about HIV, take a test
3. If still worried, see a shrink.
Giving people advice about HIV is easy, anyone can do it ))))))
1. Oral is negligible risk for HIV, too low to worry about
2. If you're still worried about HIV, take a test
3. If still worried, see a shrink.
Giving people advice about HIV is easy, anyone can do it ))))))
Well, they could be, I guess - I don't remember your story.
Regardless, since then you already got your negative test, so you know your status now.
Regardless, since then you already got your negative test, so you know your status now.
another relevant comment from that thread:
"Dr. Handsfield: THANK YOU for that comment on aidsmeds.com. Having HIV or any other disease sure doesn't make you an expert. Jesus, the HIV educator where I work has been HIV positive for almost 20 years, and routinely gives out completely wrong information. And having a disease certainly skews your perspective on prevalence, risks, treatment, etc. There's no way you could possibly be objective when it touches your life personally. Great comment."
"Dr. Handsfield: THANK YOU for that comment on aidsmeds.com. Having HIV or any other disease sure doesn't make you an expert. Jesus, the HIV educator where I work has been HIV positive for almost 20 years, and routinely gives out completely wrong information. And having a disease certainly skews your perspective on prevalence, risks, treatment, etc. There's no way you could possibly be objective when it touches your life personally. Great comment."
And as far as Teak's "expert opinion" goes, no one said it better than Dr.H.
http://www.medhelp.org/forums/HIV/messages/796.html
"I looked up aidsmeds.com. Note its byline, "Founded and operated by people with HIV". That is a giant red flag: for any medical condition, not just HIV/AIDS, websites operated primarily by people affected by the condition are prone have inflated, overly dramatic positions about that condition. Surely there are exceptions, and aidsmeds.com lists some accomplished medical advisors. But almost certainly those advisors are not the ones answering posted questions. There is no reason to suspect they or other medical interest websites are out to scare people and most don't intentionally give misinformation. But they come from a particular perspective and should never be trusted sole source of information."
http://www.medhelp.org/forums/HIV/messages/796.html
"I looked up aidsmeds.com. Note its byline, "Founded and operated by people with HIV". That is a giant red flag: for any medical condition, not just HIV/AIDS, websites operated primarily by people affected by the condition are prone have inflated, overly dramatic positions about that condition. Surely there are exceptions, and aidsmeds.com lists some accomplished medical advisors. But almost certainly those advisors are not the ones answering posted questions. There is no reason to suspect they or other medical interest websites are out to scare people and most don't intentionally give misinformation. But they come from a particular perspective and should never be trusted sole source of information."
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WHAT ARE YOU UP TO ?
Why do you always want to start an argument here, moreover always gung ho over the YOUR OWN suggestions irrespective of it being factual or not, YOU have no rights to get personal with any body, myself or for that matter any one hasn't seen Teak giving out false info or misleading anyone here.
If you are doing this for your so called *internet fame*, I must say, great stunt however bad character.
Why do you always want to start an argument here, moreover always gung ho over the YOUR OWN suggestions irrespective of it being factual or not, YOU have no rights to get personal with any body, myself or for that matter any one hasn't seen Teak giving out false info or misleading anyone here.
If you are doing this for your so called *internet fame*, I must say, great stunt however bad character.
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