ARS question

[citan]

Hello could Teak or someone answer? What does ARS being non-specific mean? Does that mean you don't just get one symptom, but multiple symptoms at once? Thank you for your time.

[Med Help]

Hi,

You have asked the same HIV related question several times and many of our members have already answered. Please stop repeating the question regarding a possible infection. The answer is going to remain the same. We have an anxiety community if you'd like to get some help with a possible anxiety concern, but please stop posting regarding this. Thank you.

MedHelp

[citan]

I just keep finding every little thing. Like for example people disagreeing in the other thread about whether or not ARS can start 2 weeks later or 4-6 weeks later, it makes me anxious that maybe there is misinformation and people disagree that I wasn't at risk also even though I even asked the doctors as well.

[Teak]

The only way a person can have ARS is to have had a risk and be infected. You did not have a risk and you are not infected, so whatever is going on with you has nothing to do with HIV.

[citan]

Teak, I am very grateful for your responses, if you could answer my last question before I leave so that I can try to put this behind me more easily... Can ARS still cause diarrhea 8 weeks after exposure and it's the ONLY symptom? Thank you, please answer this and I won't post anymore, it is hard for me to move on when I keep associating this symptom with ARS, and yes I am uneducated on this.

[Teak]

Move on before Medhelp moves you. You did not have a risk. What ever is going on with you has nothing to do with HIV.

[citan]

I tried hard to move on yesterday. However this morning I had diarrhea again... Is it possible for ARS to still be causing diarrhea 8 weeks after exposure? I'm even considering testing at this point but if it's ARS then even a negative test result won't have much significance right? I don't want to be one that tests like 9 months later and still be worried about this I don't know anymore...

[LIZZIE LOU]

smartest thing you've said yet!!!!!!!    :)  :)  :)

[citan]

Thank you to everyone who has posted on this thread. I will try to get my mind off of this and stay off the forum.

[LIZZIE LOU]

ok...lolol...one more shot at this :)

you apparently are intelligent enough to get on this forum, right?  so then you have to be intelligent enough to understand what the word protected means.  it means guarded against.  let's put it this way.  the condom that you wore on your penis...guarded...protected...wouldnt let the hiv virus...into your little penis hole :) :)

now go away before you drive yourself insane!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[nonbeliever]

i thought we settle this in your other post, you cannot be positive from this encounter. symptoms from hiv can be a whole list of things. fever of a 101 being the most common. but some people like teak never had symptoms. you would be written up in medical books if you caught hiv this way, most people would have it that have had any kind of close contact if it was transmitted this way, you need to see a therapist and if he insist you get an hiv test , than get one. if you want to be sexually active a yearly check for std and hiv should be on the top of your list,or else give up sex.

[citan]

Thank you for your comment. So I should try my best to get my mind off this matter. I want to go see a counselor for techniques to deal with anxiety but he or she might just tell me to get tested, or even say that I was at risk which would make my anxiety worse, so I don't know what to do. I'm trying to get my mind off this.

[LIZZIE LOU]

hiv is not causing your diarrhea...but anxiety probably is.

i have seen many a person come to this forum who didnt have a risk.   after staying here and reading post after post...and reading website after website about hiv...their fear and anxiety grew worse.  the best thing that you can do for yourself and your mental health, is to get off this forum and put this behind you.  

YOU WERE NOT AT RISK FOR CONTRACTING HIV.  PERIOD.

FEAR IS NOT FACT

[citan]

Thank you so much for your patience Teak, I appreciate it.

[citan]

Trying hard to move on you see, but I just keep having these nagging worries and I read more things that add to the anxiety like that post yesterday about HIV and diarrhea.

[Teak]

It wouldn't have mattered if she had AIDS.

[citan]

Even if she was seroconverting?

[Teak]

Just because you had a possible cyst on your bag didn't put you at risk. If you have concerns see your doctor This is not an HIV concern.

[citan]

Yes Teak, thank you for reading my other post. However, I had a scrotal lesion at the time of sex and I am worried that her vaginal fluids could have contacted the lesion and that she could have been seroconverting. I have been getting loose bowels and some diarrhea in the mornings and usually I don't have to go right after waking up, it's disturbing me. I also had a sinus infection with sticky mucus and a small swollen lymph node on the back of my neck.

[Teak]

"Six weeks ago I had sexual intercourse with a stranger that I have lost contact with (protected oral and vaginal sex)."

Move on you were never at risk.