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What are the chances of no more antibodies???? Help please!!!
Well i am a 22 year old male in the United States. I had unprotected vaginal sex with one 24 year old female 2+ years ago about 2 or 3 times. About 1 year after exposure i developed a cough that lasted about 1 1/2 months and went away. And every once in a while after exposure i noticed there would be something that looked like genital herpes on my genitels that would stay for a week and then go away every 3-6 months. I also noticed that bruises would apear on my arms and i wouldnt remember hurting my arms and the bruises would go away after a week or so. This may 2007 i started worrying i might be hiv+ so i went to get tested. I did the orasure oral swab twice in may that tested for hiv 1 antibodys and they came back negative. During that period i went through extreme worrying until i stopped eating hardly at all and sleeping very little after a week of that in may 07 i started feeling week and feeling physically ill until one day i noticed my tongue turned white and i started scrathing alot on my skin and i noticed some red little dots which felt itchy and around my genitals it feels itchy. When i got the negative results i was releaved and all the '' hiv symptoms'' started going away except the white tongue but its really white and the itchy red spots. I started feeling anxiety and getting worried about my white tongue and itchy skin last month so got a blood test that checks for hiv 1/2 antibodys and it came back negative but im worried that my case might be a extremly rare case where after 2+ years of being positive body makes no more hiv antibodys. I guess im looking for peace of mind and 2 negative orasure oral swab antibody tests and 1 negative blood hiv 1/2 antibody test have not put my mind to ease and i am considering getting a cd4 cd8 count test or a test that checks for viral load. Please everyone give me your opinions on this as i know you guys get questions like these alot please help out a worried soul. What do you all think about the possibility of me being hiv positive and waiting to get tested until 2 years after having unprotected vaginal sex and the posibility of the antibody test being inaccurate or that im not making hiv antibodies anymore. Keep in mind for the last 2 years ive had somewhat of a party life and have drunk heavily many times sometimes would that be a factor or should i stop worrying and move on or get additional testing done?
i havent went to the doctor yet. i dont have a family doctor but i was thinking about going to the local health department that did the hiv 1/2 blood test on me and ask them to recommend me to one. The guy there didnt know what was causing the whiteness on my tongue either but said i shouldnt worry about hiv and i asked him if there is any posibility that an hiv antibody test woulndt catch an hiv+ person and he said that a person would take many years to get to the point where if they had hiv it would be so advanced that there body would stop making hiv antibodies and my exposure was 2+ years ago but im still worried i dont know why. Yesterday i bought a tongue cleaner and after using it my tongue looked about 50% - 60% less white.
Have you went to the doctor and had them scrape your tongue and look for yeast so it can be treated?
And it doesn't take something as severe as hiv or cancer to weaken the immune system enough for yeast to overgrow. sometimes it's as simple as lack of sleep, poor diet, stress and even common everyday cold and flu germs that can do it. Don't make more of this than it should be.
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And it doesn't take something as severe as hiv or cancer to weaken the immune system enough for yeast to overgrow. sometimes it's as simple as lack of sleep, poor diet, stress and even common everyday cold and flu germs that can do it. Don't make more of this than it should be.
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im more worried that my tongue is so white and has been white for about 4 months and the white coat on top of it wont go away and it sometimes it feels sour and then my itchy skin. Thats why im worried if it wasnt for those 2 things i would be on with my life and would be 100% convinced i dont have hiv since ive tested negative 3 times. but those three tests for for hiv antibodies and where done 2 years after exposure. I guess i just need help from you guys explaining this and if you guys know what could be causing these two things because as i understand they white tongue or oral thrush can be caused by a weakend immune system so thats what scares me.
stop worrying so much. Move past the notion of having hiv from that encounter.
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so do you guys think that there is no posibility that if i where hiv + the antibody test wouldve missed the antibodies because i waited 2+ years plus after exposure to get tested for hiv antibodies?
This sounds like perhaps you have an oral and a genital fungal infection . These things happen even when you don't have hiv. You've covered your hiv bases - it's time to move on. Follow up with a dermatologist to find out what is going on.
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