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ARS respiratory symptoms
Are there any HIV infection related ARS respiratory symptoms?
I engaged on heterosexual vaginal sex with a condom (but I didn't use it correctly, all the way down to the base of the penis), and acquired, about a week later, candidiasis. Four weeks and 3 days later I tested negative for HIV on an ABBOT architect combo p24 Ag/Ab HIV1+2.
The strange thing happened just two days after my test results arrived (aprox. 1 month and 5 days after the exposure): I developed fever, skin rashes, and respiratory symptoms: lungs with secretion (light yellow and clear, too), headaches, etc. I visited a doctor, who told me it was a combination of the flu with a bacterial infection; so he put me on antibiotics (given the fact I have had fever now for 5 days already), and that helped. I got rid of all the symptoms, except the secretion in the lungs: that continued on to this very day (almost two months after the sexual encounter).
Since then I visited another doctor (an alergist, suggested by the initial doctor), but nothing has gotten rid of the secretion in the lungs. It is really annoying, and now it's inevitable that I look back and think it could still be HIV, perhaps. I fear the quality of the testing material, and fear it could be a late ARS (initiated at day 34 after exposure, and that is still there even after antibiotics - because antibiotics don't kill viruses).
What do you think? Is stuffed-with-phlegm lungs a symptom of a possible ARS, or even worse, could it have been a direct transition from ARS to AIDS right away? Nothing gets me to end it; I have no cough, but I force it a bit to try to expectorate. Not even expectoration syrups are helping me.
Does it sound like an allergic condition? I have no other symptoms whatsoever.... but that girl was an ex-drug addict, and really promiscuous. Could the candida fungus have joined the HIV virus and entered the body at the same time, even without an open sore on the skin?
Thank you in advance,
Halston
I engaged on heterosexual vaginal sex with a condom (but I didn't use it correctly, all the way down to the base of the penis), and acquired, about a week later, candidiasis. Four weeks and 3 days later I tested negative for HIV on an ABBOT architect combo p24 Ag/Ab HIV1+2.
The strange thing happened just two days after my test results arrived (aprox. 1 month and 5 days after the exposure): I developed fever, skin rashes, and respiratory symptoms: lungs with secretion (light yellow and clear, too), headaches, etc. I visited a doctor, who told me it was a combination of the flu with a bacterial infection; so he put me on antibiotics (given the fact I have had fever now for 5 days already), and that helped. I got rid of all the symptoms, except the secretion in the lungs: that continued on to this very day (almost two months after the sexual encounter).
Since then I visited another doctor (an alergist, suggested by the initial doctor), but nothing has gotten rid of the secretion in the lungs. It is really annoying, and now it's inevitable that I look back and think it could still be HIV, perhaps. I fear the quality of the testing material, and fear it could be a late ARS (initiated at day 34 after exposure, and that is still there even after antibiotics - because antibiotics don't kill viruses).
What do you think? Is stuffed-with-phlegm lungs a symptom of a possible ARS, or even worse, could it have been a direct transition from ARS to AIDS right away? Nothing gets me to end it; I have no cough, but I force it a bit to try to expectorate. Not even expectoration syrups are helping me.
Does it sound like an allergic condition? I have no other symptoms whatsoever.... but that girl was an ex-drug addict, and really promiscuous. Could the candida fungus have joined the HIV virus and entered the body at the same time, even without an open sore on the skin?
Thank you in advance,
Halston
Sounds like my symptoms when I had pneumonia.
I thought I had HIV but I was wrong. I tested negative
The symptoms lasted for a whole four weeks and the body aches were relentless.
I thought I had HIV but I was wrong. I tested negative
The symptoms lasted for a whole four weeks and the body aches were relentless.
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