After a possible exposure to HIV (a slim one from what I have researched), i have been wonderging about a question that the web has had no answer for. I read that it can take some time for HIV antibodies to become present in the body, i.e as early as two weeks but as long as 6 months in some rare cases, however I have found no information that tells me what the correlation between HIV symptoms an antibodies are. By this i mean can some one be showing HIV realted symtoms such as swollen glands, sore throat night sweats etc...yet not have enough HIV antibodies in there system to test postive or once you start to show symtoms this means those antiboideis are present. To clarify a bit if i am not being so, once you start to show symptoms does that mean you body has produced those antibodies or can you have symoptms of HIV for some time but not have produced enough antibodies for an acurate result.
I appreciate any feed back on this and if any more information is required on anyones part to answer this questions please just ask.