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Possibly injected with HIV?
Hi there ive posted here before and i promise this will be my last question but my incidence was protected oral sex with an african sex worker but my worry is a puss spot on my hip the next day and im incredibly worried she has injected me with HIV while i wasnt looking which would have been all of 5 seconds really but because of my symptoms im worrying about this. Exactly 5 weeks after my incident i came down with what i thought was the worst cold i had ever had because of all the plhlegm and as i had no fever however this happened to me all of a sudden as i just woke up a day after i had spent a 4 day drinking session in another city and all of this hit me and i was incredibly exhausted and had what i thought was a bad cold but i dont know the difference between a cold and a flu. I also had 2 months after the incident a case of what im sure was oral thrush as i had white patches on my tongue that i could brush off which has since disappeared and also in the space of 4 months i had 4 sores in my mouth. Ive had blurred vision also. All of these symptoms plus the fear that i have been injected with hiv are making me worry like hell. Im going to ask my doctor when i see him in 2 weeks for a blood test to test for HIV if not for peace of mind then to confirm i have HIV. This incident happened last august and im so worried and dont tell my im worrying too much because im a worrier by nature and please consider that this is a possibility
Thanks very much man! That has helped! I know how illogical i am being about this having read up on how hiv is spread but you must understand how powerful the human mind is and once it fixates on something its hard to move on without closure which is something i will seek but i guess once a bell is rung it cant be unrung and this is something that has happened here its just along with the symptoms i have that is what makes me worried. I should probably be worried about other STDs as for a week afterwards i had sore balls but im just unfortunately fixating on the one thing that cant be cured because its the one thats most worrisome
You are too paranoid . Dont you think you must have seen that african sex worker with a syringe in her hand full of hiv infected blood in it . Not even an experienced doctor or nurse would be in position to do something what you are thinking . You dont require any test and you will not get hiv . Relax , forget the entire episode and move on . Your hiv risk is nonexistent. Stop browsing internet and educate yourself about hiv thats all man .
I also have swollen lymph nodes in my neck, in my groin and one under my left armpit and i get dizzy sometimes every day now. I had a full blood check done 2 weeks ago which checked everything to see how well all my organs were working and to see if i had healthy levels of most things and it came backperfectly healthy, i dont know if hiv would appear in this? Probably not hence why im going to ask my GP for a blood test for HIV in my follow up appointments but if my blood tests were absolutely fine and i get dizzy every day plus all the other symptoms and the what could have been ARS then i must have HIV
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