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ARS after 6 days?
Hey all. I feel like there's a chance that I might have made a huge mistake and given my gf HIV. Here it is in a nutshell. My last exposure was a little under 10 weeks ago. I had protected oral AND vaginal sex with a sex worker. Stupidly, I didn't ask her HIV status. Anyway, a couple weeks ago, I took an 8 week Oraquick test. Results were negative. Before that, I took a ELISA blood test 6 weeks post expsure and that was negative and a PCR DNA test / ELISA 2 weeks after the exposure and that came back negative too. Per the doctor's advice, after the 8 week test I put my worries to rest. However, 6 days ago, I had unprotected sex with a girl that I'm dating. Last night, she came down with a fever and sore throat. So now I'm worried that she's experiencing ARS symptoms. Please advise? Can ARS show up that soon?
Im Italyan why?
For worriedman402
The most of the people get tested becouse they are worried about a particular exposure and becouse like you and me in the past, began looking for ARS symtoms all over the body, but the important thing is the exposure, not ARS symptoms, for instance if someone recieved oral sex with a condom from a partner with unkown hiv status, and has all the symtoms of ARS, an someone else had unprotected anal intercourse with partner with Hiv and a very high viral load, after the sex they used the same needle to do IV drugs but not presented any ARS symtoms, which of the 2 has more chance to get infected by HIV (the second one), but since ARS are present only in the half of people infected with Hiv they doesnt matter at the time to judge the risk of the exposure, they netheir increase or decrease the chance of being infected.
For worriedman402
The most of the people get tested becouse they are worried about a particular exposure and becouse like you and me in the past, began looking for ARS symtoms all over the body, but the important thing is the exposure, not ARS symptoms, for instance if someone recieved oral sex with a condom from a partner with unkown hiv status, and has all the symtoms of ARS, an someone else had unprotected anal intercourse with partner with Hiv and a very high viral load, after the sex they used the same needle to do IV drugs but not presented any ARS symtoms, which of the 2 has more chance to get infected by HIV (the second one), but since ARS are present only in the half of people infected with Hiv they doesnt matter at the time to judge the risk of the exposure, they netheir increase or decrease the chance of being infected.
Oh ok. Did they have so-called classic symptoms then which made them go for a test?
Please forget about ARS, 50% of hiv positive people didnt had ARS, so they are not reliable, and 95% of the people that was 110% sure they got hiv until they 3 month test was negative, and finally realizing they didnt had Hiv, had all they suposed ARS simtoms disaperead instanly, so forget about ARS symptoms.
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