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Worried female!!!
Dear Doctor,
I am in a relationship with a 28 year old male. Since I am very afraid of STDs, especially HIV, I now worry that I have the primary HIV infection, even though my boyfriend recently got tested for STDs as gonnorrhea, chlamydia and HIV before we started having unprotected sex. He is negative. My boyfriend and I are both Swedish, living in Scandinavia. He didn´t put himself at risk,he is not using any drugs, he did not have sex with the prostitutes, he is not bisexual and his ex girlfriends are all Swedish. We`ve been together in a serious relationship for three months now. And he got tested 2 months after we were toghether. Is there a reason to get so anxious, paranoid and afraid as I am?
My symptoms are: sour and swollen gland and very sour and swollen throat with some white gray spots on my tonsils, much more on the left side. No pain on the right side. I have a very bad taste in my mouth and it smells bad as well. I also have a fever, 38 °C and pain in my body. Paracethamol helps a lot. According to my doctor who took a sample from my throat, I don´t have streptococcus bacteria,but he said that it can be a kissing disease. He took a sample from my nose,but I will have results next week.
Should I get tested or ask my boyfriend to do a test again?
Is this a primary HIV infection?
I am in a relationship with a 28 year old male. Since I am very afraid of STDs, especially HIV, I now worry that I have the primary HIV infection, even though my boyfriend recently got tested for STDs as gonnorrhea, chlamydia and HIV before we started having unprotected sex. He is negative. My boyfriend and I are both Swedish, living in Scandinavia. He didn´t put himself at risk,he is not using any drugs, he did not have sex with the prostitutes, he is not bisexual and his ex girlfriends are all Swedish. We`ve been together in a serious relationship for three months now. And he got tested 2 months after we were toghether. Is there a reason to get so anxious, paranoid and afraid as I am?
My symptoms are: sour and swollen gland and very sour and swollen throat with some white gray spots on my tonsils, much more on the left side. No pain on the right side. I have a very bad taste in my mouth and it smells bad as well. I also have a fever, 38 °C and pain in my body. Paracethamol helps a lot. According to my doctor who took a sample from my throat, I don´t have streptococcus bacteria,but he said that it can be a kissing disease. He took a sample from my nose,but I will have results next week.
Should I get tested or ask my boyfriend to do a test again?
Is this a primary HIV infection?
Thank you so much for your help Doctor Hook.
I forgot to tell you that I had a cold one month ago and my voice was hoarse during this time.
I thought it was vocal chord inflammation but I did not have time to rest my voice.
Even then my glands were swollen. I got better, but I started to have (from time to time), sporadic pain on the left side of my throat, near the larynx for three weeks period before I became sick with constant pain in my throat, swollen sore gland and fever. I guess that this could be a reason that my throat problems got worse. What do you think?
MEDICAL PROFESSIONAL
Welcome to our Forum. I will try to help. In the situation you describe, your concerns about HIV are not warranted. Your partner is not only low risk and has been tested for HIV and found not to be infected. Since he was tested 2 months after you go together, you can be completely confident that he was not developing an HIV infection that he'd acquired before your relationship began – the timing is wrong. The tests are quite reliable and as long as you and your partner are engaged in a mutually monogamous relationship, there is no reason for concern about HIV.
As far as the symptoms you describe, they are consistent with recently acquired HIV but it is VERY IMPORTANT that you understand that they are also entirely consistent with to sort of viral infections that most people get from time to time. When persons with these sorts of symptoms have been tested for HIV, fewer than 1% are found to have HIV and those who have HIV have been engaged in behaviors which put them at risk for HIV. You and your BF however have not engaged in such behaviors and can be completely confident that this is not HIV.
I hope this explanation is helpful. Your concerns about HIV are not warranted. EWH
As far as the symptoms you describe, they are consistent with recently acquired HIV but it is VERY IMPORTANT that you understand that they are also entirely consistent with to sort of viral infections that most people get from time to time. When persons with these sorts of symptoms have been tested for HIV, fewer than 1% are found to have HIV and those who have HIV have been engaged in behaviors which put them at risk for HIV. You and your BF however have not engaged in such behaviors and can be completely confident that this is not HIV.
I hope this explanation is helpful. Your concerns about HIV are not warranted. EWH
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