HIV or Anxeity Worry

[mrworried55]

Gen 4 tests negative at:

2 Weeks
4 Weeks
6 Weeks
10 Weeks
12 Weeks
14 Weeks
18 Weeks

But still cannot let go, Headache everyday for last 2 months, itching and burning skin for the past 3 months those are my only symptoms. Can these feeling really be anxiety?? what steps can I take to make them go away, I started therapy last week. Any chance it could change to a positive? its like i feel better and then the physical symptoms remind me something is wrong. any help or wisdom is greatly appreciated.

[mrworried55]

I'm starting to accept that, but is what i'm feeling really caused by anxiety?? All my test results for everything have been normal, doctors don't seem concerned, say my headaches are just tension  which are cause by stress / anxiety, as I have not ever felt this way in my life, its all kind of scary, just looking for support here. plus the itchy and burning randomly skin freaks me out as well. Yes HIV is my only worry, its like its all I think about, I'm consumed by it. I just want to forget it. The therapist im seeing is doing CBT with me I think.

[Paxiled]

Give it a good chance.  Do the work -- CBT takes some work.  Again, there's no way we can know if it is anxiety, but you definitely have a phobia about HIV, and that is anxiety.  Good luck.

[Paxiled]

Is HIV the only thing you're anxious about?  Or are you a generally anxious person?  Anxiety can cause a lot of symptoms, but anxiety sufferers get all the same problems everyone else does, so it's not necessarily the answer to everything.  There's no way we can know if what you're suffering is from anxiety or something else, we can only comment on whether your life is dominated now by anxious thinking.  If it's just about HIV, that might be a phobia, which is a form of anxiety.  Is this all that's going on?  And make sure your new therapist specializes in anxiety treatment -- most of them don't.  If you tell us more, I think more people will chime in.