ARS Symptoms or Paranoid

[GS1823]

I am a white hetero male and Hypocondriac. The past year I have had 3 - 4 one-night stand encounters. Most recently I had one about 5 weeks ago. A girl I met in a bar and we had unprotected sex. A few days later, I skinned my leg pretty badly on an indoor recreation facility playing indoor football. I didnt clean it too thoroughly and soon devleoped cellulitis. My groin lymph nodes were swollen and i had body aches. I was prescribed Bactrim and took the full course of antibiotics. 4 days into taking the Bactrim i started to get congested in my head. I took an antihistamine for allergies which cleared my head..I soon developed sore neck muscles in the next couple of days. The final day of taking the Bactrim i had sore neck muscles on both sides and i started to get a rash which started at my ankles and soon spread over my entire body. The rash itched. I went to the doc and they said it was a reaction to the Batrim, but I had taken the Bactrim for 10 days...I was given a steriod and the neck pain went away immediately while the rash faded after a couple days and is almost totally gone after a week...

Now, is it possible that these are ARS symptoms from the sexual encounter i had about 3-4 weeks prior to these symptoms happening? I never had a fever. I did feel a lttle run down but I was still able to go to the gym and work out normally. I have freaked myself out about this and got an HIV Test yesterday...I will get the results in 2 days. Thanks

[GS1823]

Thanks..depending on what the results are for this recent test i took, i will be sure to take the test again in 3 months

[LIZZIE LOU]

while a rash can be associated with ars...yours sounds more like a reaction to the antibiotic as your doctor suggested.  this is a good example of "why" symptoms are never a good indicator of early infection.

a test a 3 months post exposure will give you a conclusive result.