symptoms and test

[2manysymptoms]

I had two experiences last May/June with two different women- with one the condom broke and with the other, I was fisting with a potential open cuticle cut on my finger.  I have been sick oever the summer with fatigue, myalgia, night sweats, tongue coated, diarrhea, flu symptoms etc.. Now (six months) I have a light torso rash and pimple- like spots on my back and pper arms, along with diarrhea. I was tested for HIV at 8 weeks, 12 weeks, 20 weeks all were negative. Could HIV go undetectable to this point?  I am so tired that I do not go to work and sleep in until 12 noon. Thanks for your time with my worry.  If not HIV, any other ideas what it could be? The symptoms seem to have happened after these sexual experiences.  

[Dr Sean Cummings]

Good Morning

Jose has answered already :-

"All those negative HIV tests are fully conclusive and we can be completely sure that none of those symptoms are related to HIV infection".

I don't have naything to add I'm afraid and will close this post now.

best wishes, Sean

[cantbpossible]

Thank you doctor.  I am worried that I may be one of those cass that takes up to six months to seroconvert. During the summer I would even sweat when I would have a meal and I lost all sense of taste - even when I bit into a lime. Earlier on in my illness, my chest seemed to swell up and remained like that for a few weeks. Now all my body weight from my chest has seem to have shifted to my waist, as if I lost my muscle mass.  My throat makes a sound when I swallow- like a crunching sound- and my liver enzymes and blood sugar has been acting up.  I still feel run down and every so often my neck nodes swell as well as my chest- especially if I have an alcoholic drink. I was wondering with the fact that I have just had the light rash- that the seroconversion process has completed.  With gratitude.    

[Dr. Jose Gonzalez-Garcia, MD, MRCGP, PhD]

Hello, there!
All those negative HIV tests are fully conclusive and we can be completely sure that none of those symptoms are related to HIV infection.  It is true that the symptoms that you have been experiencing are consitent with acute HIV sero-conversion.  However its timing is not typical.  Acute sero-conversion symptoms normally only happen for a few days, no more than 10 days, between two and six weeks after initial infection, and you would not have any of these symptoms thereafter.
My advice to you is to go and see your doctor and get further investigations to find out the cause of your symptoms.  I do not think they are related to any STD.  
Best wishes and kind regards,
Dr Jose Gonzalez-Garcia