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Tingling, Muscle Twitching, Numbness - is it HIV or Combivir induced neuropathy
by Snoop34, Oct 17, 2007 11:56AM
I am an African male 30 years. I have been living out of my home country for 3 years in US. I did not have any form of sexual contact during these three years. I fully abstained. I returned to Africa – (Sub Saharan) and after some time asked my wife that we do the routine HIV test for insurance renewal purposes. Unfortunately, she turned out to be HIV positive. I turned out to be negative. However, I had had sex with her at least nine times without protection. After finding out she is positive, we stopped all sexual contact. I did a rapid HIV test and an Elisa test at 8 weeks (22nd July) and (29th July) 9 weeks after the first exposure with her. Both Rapid and ELISA tests came back negative. I went 10 weeks after the first exposure and I re-tested and still negative though still within the window period. The day she got her positive result, the doctor decided to put me on PEP ARV for 28 days because we had had anal sex. All the other encounters were 11 vaginal sex (were between 26th May and 29th July), 1 anal sex (the last exposure was actually on 29th July). Between 20th June and 9th July there was no exposure since I was out of the country. I have the habit of washing after every sexual encounter, after 5 to 10 minutes after each encounter and always use antiseptic soap as standard in the house. I am a circumcised male. I finished Combivir. What are my chances that I shall maintain negative status? In all the encounters, our sex was ten minutes and below and I withdrew immediately and she was extremely wet.
I have not experienced any ARS symptoms but for the past 6 weeks I have been having tingling the whole body, generalized muscle twitching, numbness in the hands and my fingernails are darkish almost blue. I am also having pins and needles, burning sensation in the legs, crawling effect, chapped lips, slight cough, itchy feeling but no rash and no fever at all. What could this be? The doctor says peripheral neuropathy can never come at seroconversion time as it is later as progression to AIDS occurs.
This does not change the fact that we are abstaining till I get to know my status.
I have not experienced any ARS symptoms but for the past 6 weeks I have been having tingling the whole body, generalized muscle twitching, numbness in the hands and my fingernails are darkish almost blue. I am also having pins and needles, burning sensation in the legs, crawling effect, chapped lips, slight cough, itchy feeling but no rash and no fever at all. What could this be? The doctor says peripheral neuropathy can never come at seroconversion time as it is later as progression to AIDS occurs.
This does not change the fact that we are abstaining till I get to know my status.
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