Dry Burning Tongue

[NBAFan365]

Hi im 21 years old and i lost my virginity to my ex who always said she was tested clean. 5 1/2 months later my mouth began to be extremely dry and also my tongue. More the tongue. i thought i had thrush because i kept looking and the end/back part of my tongue looked whiteish. The tip of my tongue also began to burn. Maybe because im biting down on it for the past week to dry and salivate my mouth?? Im arabian and have been fasting for the past week. no water/food from sunrise to sunset. but after sunset i drink bottles of water. Went to an immediate care clinic and he said i dont have thrush and the whitish towards the end  is normal and known as mucous on the surface. i checked many others tongue and they had it too. relieved me a bit. Im so scared bc i know that this is one of the signs of hiv. ive only had sex 1 time =/ and i dont wanna die because of this. please someone tell me im going to be okay

[joggen]

You can't gauge your status by symptoms or lack thereof. Stop trying to figure out your status on the Internet and go get an HIV test. It will be negative and you can move on with your life. The test will be conclusive.

I am closing this thread unless and until you report the result of an HIV test. Otherwise additional posts will be deleted without comment.

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[NBAFan365]

yes thank you so much. I lost my virginity on march 9th. im just paranoid bc what i hear about is candida and thrush. i hope the doctor and his nurse were right saying its not thrush. but the burning near the tip for a week which is spreading towards the right side of my tongue, when i looked it up and it said burning tongue/mouth syndrome. which is a yeast infection which is thrush/candida. I have a few more questions if you dont mind answering them for me so i can put this to rest. I am new to the HIV thing. Would i have expierenced this or other symptoms earlier? the main ones which im confused what they are? Can not eating during the day cause a dry mouth? if i can just stop the burning and dryness ill feel so relaxed.

[joggen]

From your posting history it is clear that you have a lot of anxiety over losing your virginity and an irrational fear of STDs and HIV. Perhaps guilt is contributing to your situation as well. Regarding HIV, perhaps a few points of information will help:

1. The chance that a 17 year old girl would have HIV is close to zero. HIV is rare in women in this country- less than 1 in 1000 women have it, and even rarer in teenage girls.

2. HIV is inefficiently transmitted through vaginal sex. The frequency of transmission averages 1 in 1000. This means that even in the extremely unlikely event that your partner had HIV, the odds would still be on your side that you wouldn't have caught it.

3. Trying to gauge your HIV status by what your tongue looks like is a waste of time and is counterproductive. As Dr. Jose told you, a white tongue has nothing to do with HIV. Unfortunately, bad information on the Internet leads people to believe that they can determine their HIV status by checking their mouth for thrush, and people easily misinterpret what they see when they examine their mouth.

You clearly DO NOT have thrush, and even if you did, having thrush in no way means a person has HIV. Thrush occurs in people who don't have HIV- in fact the vast majority of people who have thrush DO NOT have HIV.  Forgot about your tongue it has nothing to do with HIV. Regarding your dry mouth: anxiety is a very common cause of that- HIV has nothing to do with it.

If you remain concerned, have an HIV test as Dr. Jose suggested. The negative result will settle your fears and allow you to move on from this.