Fever?

[highlyanxious]

Is High fever always present with ARS symptoms? If someone has moderate night sweats without fever or any other symptom does this constitute a symptom or just a byproduct of extreme anxiety?
Thanks for your responses

[Am_I_Simply_Making_Myself_Sick]

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Just be aware that they are very conservative (i.e., must test to 6 months) and their counselers were cautiously optimistic with my 6 week negative, but said I must get another test at 3 months and wouldn't give me any real comfort over the 6 week negative).

[miguellopez09]

can u give the number of home access so i can call them because i still cant belive its second generation again like you said it doesnt make any difference

[kimoz]

I have some trouble understanding the difference between normal body temperature and low-grade fever though. Is 37.2C(99C) during the day consider normal or low-grade? I have heard body temperature will normally peak during later afternoon too(around 4pm-6pm), so body temperature of around 37.5C(99.5C) during that time would also be considered as normal too. But a range of 99-99.5C sounds like low-grade fever to me. Anyone can shed a light to this?

[o_g]

Everyboy says symptoms mean nothing as far as diagnosing HIV is concerned and follow it up with "continue to test beyond 3 months time if you have clinical presentation of symptoms" in the same breath. Wonder what the are trying to convey.

Tell me how many times a 3 month test really calmed a person after a genuine risk with symptoms persisting. After 4 weeks, a person thinks he is 90% in clear and hopes his 8 weeks is good. After 8 weeks negative, he feels that the most important test is the 1 at 12 weeks. He feels very nervous about it. It's a make or break. At the 12th week test, he prays that if this comes negative, he will be a good human for rest of his life. The 12 week comes negative. But, he continues to feel sick like he has been for last 3 months even after 12 weeks. So, is he a late seroconverter? Did his test covers all subtypes?  Maybe he has weak immune system? Maybe the lab messed up? Maybe he is the unluckiest.

I love to read people giving documented proof of conclusive testing at 6 weeks but everyone will test out to min 12 weeks(even BJ's) and most will go to 6 month. 6 week in the end just feels like a feel good statement to get rid of immediate worries of window. Subconciously, no one really believes it. I have seen people on this website vouching for 6 weeks and themselves going and getting tested at 24 weeks.. Just funny!!!

[Am_I_Simply_Making_Myself_Sick]

Wow o_g - you hit the nail on the head!  That's exactly what I'm been/going through (5 minutes unprotected sex with a stripper - 6.5 week negative and I'm getting my 8.5 week Home Access test results back tonight).

However, my right tonsil is still visibly swollen and my soft palate very red, can feel the nodes in my neck (some of which have been confirmed as minorly swollen by a doctor) and my armpits are moderately sore (although I don't feel any swollen nodes there), so I'm still freaking out.  

I'd be ok, but my tonsil and throat has been like this for 6 weeks!    

I asked Dr. HHH about the fever - he said almost always present (the number I saw was 90+%, but not sure here or elsewhere.  Also, Dr. HHH said that "the fever would be noticeable enough that you would know you had it."  (Thank God I didn't notice any fever, or I'd be even crazier!

[worried_hetero]

Honestly, I think the fright of being infected is a true traumatic experience. A legitimate traumatic experience. I believe it triggers something that brings out a few other OCD's in people. One being surfacing "hypochondria". This really is a form of hypochondria and the stress after the fear is a legitimate "post-traumatic stress" and it lingers for a while (obviously in my own case). This is something to obsess on and the event brought out the OCD that was always there.....I am certainly not a doctor or a psych but this is what I think.

[Xhost]

Of all the symptoms of HIV infection, fever is the symptom that seems to present most often. In one graph that I read, it claimed that fever is present in 96% of the cases of symptomatic ARS. Of course, with so much of information out there, some of it seemingly inconsistent, it is hard to say for sure (at least hard for me to say for sure - I am sure the doc on the moderated HIV Prevention forum has covered this, probably more than once, so you may want to do a search on that forum and see what you find).

In the end, though, symptoms really do mean nothing in terms of diagnosing HIV. That can be frustrating to hear when someone is on the lookout for symptoms, or the lack thereof, to determine their own HIV status. However, it really is the truth. So, the only way to know your HIV status is to test at the appropriate time. Do a search on the moderated forum for "time to test" to get some idea for when it may be appropriate to test given your situation (assuming you have a need to test at all).

HA, if you have described the situation that has you so anxious, I think I have missed it. If you haven't, and you feel comfortable doing so, how about doing it? It may comfort you to know that many, many people come here with the incorrect assumption that they have engaged in a high risk activity, or, in other words, one that may have exposed them to some realistic chance of contracting HIV. In the vast majority of cases, they didn't. And maybe you haven't either.

If you have detailed your encounter in an earlier post, I apologize if I missed it.

[Perfectmax]

The doc has said that no fever = no ars