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What are the chances of me not being infected?
by davidk81, May 10, 2008 07:27AM
I made the biggest mistake thinking i can enjoy myself for once. I had unprotected sex with a male 7 weeks ago for the first time in my life. I was receiving. : ( I asked him not to orgasm inside of me and he did pull out but he came the second he pulled. I asked him if he had any stds and he said no but I know you can't trust anyone. So I'm not sure if he came inside of me at all. I did check myself to see if he did at that moment. I showered right afterwards not that it would make a difference.
1 week later i started feeling weak. 2 weeks later I ended up getting this chest pain that hurt me everytime i would breathe in and out. I ended up getting this rash on my rectum that burned me and hurt and itched me later when it was healing. It started out small and then grew up my rectum and near my prostate under my testicles. It lasted only 4 days and then went away. In those 4 days I had painful bowel movements and it burned me very much to pee on the fifth day. I did see blood in my stool but i don't know if it waqs from inside of me or because of the rash. While I had this rash my groin nodes were swollen and hurting me a lot.
I went to get tested 2 weeks after my exposure a day after the chest pains started and one day before the rash outbreak. They gave me an oral Oraquick test on march 27th and it came back slightly positive they said. They told me that something might be "throwing it off" if my body is going through something. They took blood from me that day and performed a Western Blot test. It came back negative. Then I had to go back into the HIV clinic on April 1st and they took more blood. They did another western blot and a RNA Viral Load of 50 ml copies and that came back negative as well. I know it's the "early" test but the lab physician told me that i'm still in the window period even though it's accurate after 11 days. I had to wait 2 weeks for the results. Both of the tests came back negative. While I was waiting for my results I came down with flu like symptoms. My symptoms have been spread out through out the month. week one started with chills. week 2 i ended up with a dry cough and chills feeling very tired all the time with a cold sore on my lip. I did lose some weight. I was constipated though. week 3, I developed joint pain and diahriah all over and my joints are still hurting me now along with a second cold sore. I had nightmares every single night. Some nights I had night sweats. The joint pain is the worst. I feel strange behind my shoulders near my armpits, knees, my fingers, my toes, elbows, every-time i use any of my joints. The joint pain started out in my knees. I get these rashes that come and go on the back of my hands wrists and knees. Hive like rashes on my stomach, arms and back that also come and go quite frequently. I only recently got a head ache for 2 days in a row. : ( I know that abdominal pain is not a symptom but it comes and goes as well. The 2 days while I was feeling the worst my abdomen was the main focus. In the whole month everytime i thought i had a fever, it would be at 98.4 or 98.7????? I got tested again twice at 4 weeks and five weeks with Eliza. Both were negative. I paid 300 dollars for a pcr dna viral load test and am hoping and praying that it comes back negative but i'm convinced that they are going to tell me over the phone that i'm positive when i'll be all alone at home. I'm getting the results sometime next week. I know I shouldn't diagnose my own disease but I'm convinced and frightened. There are no other stds that cause a dry cough. I've been sick for a month now. I'm on Doxycycline just incase it's a bacterial infection but I got tested for every single std just last week and it all came back negative. I know that whatever i have is sexually transmitted and the symptoms resemble hiv. It's left my body feeling weak with pain. My questions are:
Are there any other stds/stis that cause a painful rash aside from herpes that last a short while? Can a dry cough be related to any other std/sti. Are the tests that I took at the times I took them accurate? I went to the hiv clinic again at 6 weeks and the nurse told me that she's not testing me again and said "YOU DON'T HAVE HIV" and was going to call security on me. So my last antibody test was on the 5th week and it came back negative. But I'm soooooooo scared I do. The way my body feels, i just know/think i do. Is there a possibility that i don't have it even though i've experienced all of the symptoms? Can hiv cause a painful rash on your anus when newly infected? As you can see i have many questions and just want to figure things out. Waiting for results just makes me even more anxious. I like the answers that DR.HHH gives people. He's very reassuring but I've had all the "ARS" symptoms. Even though it was'nt all at once, it was all in the same month of april. I know that i'm not suppose to diagnose myself. I just want to feel confident despite everything I've gone through this past month that my test results that i'll be recieving either on mon. tues. or thurs. of next week will be negative. This is THE test. So one can only imagine the fear that i'm experiencing. It's 8:30 am and I haven't even slept yet.
1 week later i started feeling weak. 2 weeks later I ended up getting this chest pain that hurt me everytime i would breathe in and out. I ended up getting this rash on my rectum that burned me and hurt and itched me later when it was healing. It started out small and then grew up my rectum and near my prostate under my testicles. It lasted only 4 days and then went away. In those 4 days I had painful bowel movements and it burned me very much to pee on the fifth day. I did see blood in my stool but i don't know if it waqs from inside of me or because of the rash. While I had this rash my groin nodes were swollen and hurting me a lot.
I went to get tested 2 weeks after my exposure a day after the chest pains started and one day before the rash outbreak. They gave me an oral Oraquick test on march 27th and it came back slightly positive they said. They told me that something might be "throwing it off" if my body is going through something. They took blood from me that day and performed a Western Blot test. It came back negative. Then I had to go back into the HIV clinic on April 1st and they took more blood. They did another western blot and a RNA Viral Load of 50 ml copies and that came back negative as well. I know it's the "early" test but the lab physician told me that i'm still in the window period even though it's accurate after 11 days. I had to wait 2 weeks for the results. Both of the tests came back negative. While I was waiting for my results I came down with flu like symptoms. My symptoms have been spread out through out the month. week one started with chills. week 2 i ended up with a dry cough and chills feeling very tired all the time with a cold sore on my lip. I did lose some weight. I was constipated though. week 3, I developed joint pain and diahriah all over and my joints are still hurting me now along with a second cold sore. I had nightmares every single night. Some nights I had night sweats. The joint pain is the worst. I feel strange behind my shoulders near my armpits, knees, my fingers, my toes, elbows, every-time i use any of my joints. The joint pain started out in my knees. I get these rashes that come and go on the back of my hands wrists and knees. Hive like rashes on my stomach, arms and back that also come and go quite frequently. I only recently got a head ache for 2 days in a row. : ( I know that abdominal pain is not a symptom but it comes and goes as well. The 2 days while I was feeling the worst my abdomen was the main focus. In the whole month everytime i thought i had a fever, it would be at 98.4 or 98.7????? I got tested again twice at 4 weeks and five weeks with Eliza. Both were negative. I paid 300 dollars for a pcr dna viral load test and am hoping and praying that it comes back negative but i'm convinced that they are going to tell me over the phone that i'm positive when i'll be all alone at home. I'm getting the results sometime next week. I know I shouldn't diagnose my own disease but I'm convinced and frightened. There are no other stds that cause a dry cough. I've been sick for a month now. I'm on Doxycycline just incase it's a bacterial infection but I got tested for every single std just last week and it all came back negative. I know that whatever i have is sexually transmitted and the symptoms resemble hiv. It's left my body feeling weak with pain. My questions are:
Are there any other stds/stis that cause a painful rash aside from herpes that last a short while? Can a dry cough be related to any other std/sti. Are the tests that I took at the times I took them accurate? I went to the hiv clinic again at 6 weeks and the nurse told me that she's not testing me again and said "YOU DON'T HAVE HIV" and was going to call security on me. So my last antibody test was on the 5th week and it came back negative. But I'm soooooooo scared I do. The way my body feels, i just know/think i do. Is there a possibility that i don't have it even though i've experienced all of the symptoms? Can hiv cause a painful rash on your anus when newly infected? As you can see i have many questions and just want to figure things out. Waiting for results just makes me even more anxious. I like the answers that DR.HHH gives people. He's very reassuring but I've had all the "ARS" symptoms. Even though it was'nt all at once, it was all in the same month of april. I know that i'm not suppose to diagnose myself. I just want to feel confident despite everything I've gone through this past month that my test results that i'll be recieving either on mon. tues. or thurs. of next week will be negative. This is THE test. So one can only imagine the fear that i'm experiencing. It's 8:30 am and I haven't even slept yet.
however you did have a high risk exposure and 3 months post exposure will give you a conclusive result cant say what the rash was but you made a poor judgement call and now look at yourself WAS it worth it how could you knowing it would put you at risk unprotected man NEVER again i wish you the very best