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I am very worried. I have slept with 3 people since September and wore a condom with 2 of them and 1 I unfortunately did not. I have had a rash which occurred only after i showered, at least that's when i noticed it. It would burn when I was in the shower and then show up on my stomach area with red blotchiness. I have also been really fatigued for the passed 5 or 6 weeks. I had an hiv test done semi recently, but I feel the test was done too close to my encounters. I really need some help because I'm feeling every symptom right now. I also just developed a fever of 99.2 and could simply be sickness, but all the same, I am freaking out. I had the rash for maybe about 1 or 2 weeks then had 1 swollen gland in the left side of my neck that lasted only a couple of days too. It is mid January now and the last person I am more worried about I haven't been with since the beginning of November.
If you're suicidal (which is ridiculous)....you need to seek immediate help. You've been told over and over that your "symptoms" are not at all indicative of HIV, plus, you have already tested and gotten a negative result.
Anxiety causes VERY real physical symptoms...everything from rashes to diarrhea, GI disturbances, headaches, hot flashes, chest pain...the list is endless. Lizzie Lou created an excellent journal listing the symptoms of anxiety.
If you don't seek professional help to get your anxiety under control, it will only continue to escalate. Get off the computer, and make yourself an appointment with a psychiatrist.
Anxiety causes VERY real physical symptoms...everything from rashes to diarrhea, GI disturbances, headaches, hot flashes, chest pain...the list is endless. Lizzie Lou created an excellent journal listing the symptoms of anxiety.
If you don't seek professional help to get your anxiety under control, it will only continue to escalate. Get off the computer, and make yourself an appointment with a psychiatrist.
Seek personal, professional mental health care. Your issues are beyond the scope of the kind of help that you can get over the internet. You obviously need to talk to someone about this but you should be doing it in person, not on-line. I guarantee that you will feel better talking to someone in person about your issues.
Lizzie and teak, i really have a lot of respect to you for shat you doing. However, going to the hiv anxiety will not help me move forward. What i am feeling is really physical and hurting a lot. I would like to make another test and post my positive result but i am very very afraid of the consequences: suicide is one of them. I am really scared and beginning to losing it. I cry for every single touching event that i hear, i have difficulties concentrating. I am like Dr Jeckyl and Mr Hide having dual personalties. I am not asking for help anymore, the only thing that will end it is an Armageddon or an Apocalypse that turns dverything upside down.
Actually on this forum and on anther one i was informed that i must move forward but it is when i am comparing my symptoms with those of hiv i realize that it cannot be something else and moreover it is the timing. Even doctors are trying to convince me but it just does not add up in my mind.
You're actually kind of helping me right now, because I used to panic like you. You're flipping out and you're losing touch of reality and to wish another disease or accident on yourself because you think you have HIV is super crazy. You've been wrongfully informed about HIV I'm starting to think.
You don't have HIV and you were advised of it multiples times. Seek professional mental help.
Because of all the symptoms i am having they also say anxiety is part of the symptoms which i am living it right now. From time i feel that i want to have a cancer so die from it or even die in any accident since i cannot live like this anymore. I have been a different person since my first blood drawn for hiv test and that was in mid august.
Thanks teak and i appreciate dedicating your time for this forum. The thing is that in my case i swear that i used a condom for both vaginal and oral. And i am still convinced that i have the virus and it is eating me especially my muscles. I am very scared of taking a new test at 10 months since i cannot believe it will turn negative again.
Again i aprreciate all experts time like lizzie rainylover nursegirl and zamzam. It is just out of my control i cannot believe that this stupid careless csw can harm somebody in this way. I am also to blame but never thought that hiv is that easily transmitted.
Again i aprreciate all experts time like lizzie rainylover nursegirl and zamzam. It is just out of my control i cannot believe that this stupid careless csw can harm somebody in this way. I am also to blame but never thought that hiv is that easily transmitted.
HIV is not a mystery at all. Use condoms and don't share works with other IV drug abusers and you won't contract HIV.
Nobody actually, online, gives a decent description of the rash. I've googled even looking for images and get some stuff, but nothing really specific. As I said earlier in the thread, the rash is what bothers me. They kind of generalize it, but it's certainly got to have strong characteristics right??
If a clinic is refusing to test you anymore, you've obviously overtested. ONE single antibody test at 3 months is sufficient and conclusive. Over testing only fuels the anxiety cycle. Kind of like a person with a phobia of snakes throwing themself into a snake pit day after day.
If your unprotected exposure was in September as you posted, then a negative resule would have been conclusive back in December. If you had a test at 3 months after that exposure, believe it and move in, you don't have HIV.
If your unprotected exposure was in September as you posted, then a negative resule would have been conclusive back in December. If you had a test at 3 months after that exposure, believe it and move in, you don't have HIV.
If you have a high risk exposure and you experience the 3 classic ARS symptoms at around 2 to 4 weeks after that exposure which are very high fever,very sore throat and rash on trunk-torso and limbs then you require testing and the chances that test will be positive is quite high.Freedomhealth.
Symptoms or the lack of will never tell you your status. The only way to know your status is by testing and the only way to that that you have had ARS is AFTER you test positive and it has been confirmed.
I really love your openness. I think it's great when people can talk about this kind of stuff, which isn't always easy. That looks like a great website. So you really had no symptoms... rash...nothing like that?
If you are interested in the history of HIV/AIDS here is a good start - http://www.avert.org/hiv-aids-history.htm
Thanks Teak. Can I ask your sexual orientation too and possible mode of contraction. Again like I said for Lizzie, only if you're comfortable
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