Hi everyone,
I don't know if you are able to give me some reassurance but I really hope so.
The 29th of September I started a relationship with a guy. We were both tested for HIV before starting our relationship (12th and 14th of September) and before the 29th of September I didn’t have sex with him.
At the end of October I had a urinary infection and because it was taking a lot to go away I decided to get tested for STDs. I still had a light GNU and the doctor told me that it was better to test my partner as well.
The 12th of November the tests came back all negative for me, but HIV positive for my partner.
As we had unprotected sex few times and once it was 12hours before the results, the doctor decided to put me on PEP for 28days that I finished the 10th of December, obviously this would have covered just that time and not before.
Now, I was usually insertive a part from 2 occasions: once he came inside and once he came on my back (both the times between the 11th and the 18th of November).
Before beginning the PEP I didn’t have any symptoms like flu or anything and all the tests resulted negative. I did a test the day I begun the PEP (negative), one 5 days after (negative) and one 3 weeks after (negative).
More or less 15 days after the beginning of the PEP I started having a strong pain to my neck and upper back on the right side only, a bit of pain on my left knee and some pain under my right armpit.
The neck pain and the armpit pain usually started few hours after waking up in the morning and the pain to my knee was random, but mostly if I was seated for too long.
I waited one week before going back to the clinic as I thought it was stress, but after one week, the pain was still there. Once at the clinic the doctor visited me and didn’t find anything strange or anything that could have shown seroconversion, but as I was worried they did another blood test.
I had my results after one week and everything was negative. In the meantime, the pain in my neck and back completely disappeared but I still had it behind my knee and under my armpit.
The reason I’m worried is that the pain behind my knee and under my armpit are still here, I thought they were a kind of PEP side effects, but it’s now 4 days that I finished.
Do I have to be worried? Do you think the pains I have are seroconversion symptoms?
Thanks in advance for your help