pain in groin

[worriedman2008]

My dr said he could not see any lumps but my groin feels a bit painful and tender for some reason. I had a negative HIV test at 7 weeks. I cant see anything swollen but I get jabs of pain from the groin area. What else can cause this apart from HIV?

[Teak]

Symptoms of pain in the groin has nothing to do with HIV to begin with.

[worriedman2008]

Thanks. WHy not though, as I believe that the glands are in the groin and if you have an STD, they can become infected and painful.

[worriedman2008]

I forgot to say that I dont usually get pain in the area but for some reason I get jabs of pain or uncomfortable sore feeling right where the crease in the leg and groin is for almost a week now. BUt I cant feel (nor could the dr) any lumps so I dont know exactly where this pain stems from.

[Teak]

What I said is HIV does not cause lymph nodes to be painful. If you have painful lymph nodes then you need to find another cause of the pain.

[LFanswers]

I am really curious, WM2008

is it a pain or discomfort on only one side of the lower belly, like "something" got bigger or out of place? yet you touch and there is no "ball" or anything to feel?

it's most likely a swollen colon or intestine caused by EXTREME anxiety and worry.

I have read something around 5 or 10 cases on the net about people freaking about thinking they are suffering ARS because of only one swollen lymph node on the groin.

It's nothing like that, Relax, once you are able to move on from this, watch this and all other calamities disappear.

[worriedman2008]

HI

Thank you both for your reassurances. I dont understand why lymph nodes wouldnt be painful if hiv was infecting them though, but thanks for your knowledge and advice.
About the pain LF, well I have had hiv anxiety yes for a number of weeks and also one test which scared me to death but was negative (7 weeks). But this pain is at the top of the groin/leg area on both sides actually and it is not always there but it feels when it comes like a needle being pricked into you or a jabbing kind of pain. SOmetimes, I get the pains in the lower abdomen too. I do not even know if it is the lymph nodes which are painful or something else, for example muscles or ligaments etc.

All I know is that I currently have a negative HIV Elisa test and I would guess that if these pains were due to hiv that the antibody test would have shown it up by now. Or does symptoms not necessarily mean you would test positive at the time?

[LFanswers]

according to what I've seen, HIV infection doesn't cause that kind of things you mention.

Pains that come and go around the groin/leg area and strange discomforts in the lower abdomen are most likely caused by stress, some depression and some anxiety.

from what I understand and evidence I have seen first hand, if you didn't have ars on the 2-4 weeks after exposure then nothing else should be attribute to being " recently infected with HIV".

If infected, the virus will most likely just stay there and reproduce. The consecuences of being HIV+ and not on treatment appear much later, can't say for sure but 3 or 4 months is still a very early stage. I understand that most people on window period, myself included, tend to think that somehow our bodies will begin to rot and that we won't make it to the end of the year. It is a strange feeling, it's like hope is lost or I don't know something strange. I am trying hard to not think like that. I really hope I can believe in a negative test at 13 weeks if I get it. I don't want ot be involved in a life of eternal HIV fear and Paranoia and nobody should either.

I have HIV+ friends that had it since a long time ago and they are as good as ever.

The things is, even if you were infected, all your physical sufferings are most likely due to you feeling like **** in the situation than the virus itself doing anything.  

my guess is that all will disappear once you feel on the safe side.

[worriedman2008]

ok thanks. There is some differences of opinion about the ars timing I think, some say 2-4 weeks, some up to 6 or 8 weeks from what I heard. I dont know how anyone could know for sure, do you? How can you tell a virus to give you symptoms only up to 4 weeks for example? Well I hope mine is just stress as well....at the moment im negative at 7 weeks so hopefully it wont change and I hope urs will be ok too.

[worriedman2008]

by the way you say it doesnt cause those types of symptoms, but everywhere i read say that symptoms can include swollen glands...I think the cells that hiv destroy are in the lymph nodes from what ive read anyway, so I just dont understand why they couldnt be painful if they are swollen.

[LFanswers]

yeah but have you gone to a doctor to have a check up? did he diagnosed a swollen lymph on your groin? Do you know for a fact how does a swollen lymph node on the groin feels and looks like? can you really feel a "ball" if you reach into yor lower adbomen?

listen, a swollen lymph caused by ARS is noticeable by the way it looks, it REALLY looks swollen and in most cases, you can touch and feel several of them.

[worriedman2008]

as far as i have read, Teak and another site (dr francisco on the body) say that the lymphadenopathy associated with hiv is not painful. I just hope that they are right what they say, because that is a strong statement to make. I wish someone would say why they are painless though, coz i think they can be painful if you have other STDs like Gonorrhea.

[alienshadow]

man get a grip here if you read things its going to happen thats just the minds way of dealing with fear get it
also the more you read the more stress you are going to take on