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more symptoms in 5 months
Hi,
As I get closer to my 6th month mark, I am getting a little nervous. The last month I have been observing an increase in my symptoms.
1) more small red spots on my thighs. Initially, they started on my chest, arms, and back. After checking with my gp, he had said "as long as those spots aren't on my legs, then its not petechiae." He gave me the a clarification that the spots I had was cherry angioma. But, those spots are on my legs now..
2) the retromolar pad (where the wisdom teeth hide beneath) is swollen for the last 2.5 weeks. the swelling decreased, but I feel a dryness in my mouth. Is any kind of swelling in the mouth a sign of hiv?
3) my headaches are increasing and so are the muscle aches in my neck and arms. The headaches really feel hard to tolerate some times. The aches on the sides of my neck really feel sensative to the touch sometimes. And it surprises me cause I hardly get headaches.
4) Sometimes when I wake up, I find a lot of oral thrush on the sides of my checks.... and now on the sides of my tongue. What can be causing the oral thrush besides possible hiv?
I took my hiv test at the third month mark and on the 4th month mark again just to keep me sane. I am kinda hesistant on going for my 6 month hiv testing.... especially when I found out my platelet count is 197 (standard range 130-400).
please, what is your view on 3 month testing vs 6 months?
thanks in advance for your time and patience!
As I get closer to my 6th month mark, I am getting a little nervous. The last month I have been observing an increase in my symptoms.
1) more small red spots on my thighs. Initially, they started on my chest, arms, and back. After checking with my gp, he had said "as long as those spots aren't on my legs, then its not petechiae." He gave me the a clarification that the spots I had was cherry angioma. But, those spots are on my legs now..
2) the retromolar pad (where the wisdom teeth hide beneath) is swollen for the last 2.5 weeks. the swelling decreased, but I feel a dryness in my mouth. Is any kind of swelling in the mouth a sign of hiv?
3) my headaches are increasing and so are the muscle aches in my neck and arms. The headaches really feel hard to tolerate some times. The aches on the sides of my neck really feel sensative to the touch sometimes. And it surprises me cause I hardly get headaches.
4) Sometimes when I wake up, I find a lot of oral thrush on the sides of my checks.... and now on the sides of my tongue. What can be causing the oral thrush besides possible hiv?
I took my hiv test at the third month mark and on the 4th month mark again just to keep me sane. I am kinda hesistant on going for my 6 month hiv testing.... especially when I found out my platelet count is 197 (standard range 130-400).
please, what is your view on 3 month testing vs 6 months?
thanks in advance for your time and patience!
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