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Should one really bother with testing?
Over the past three weeks or so I've been increasingly feeling lethargic at times for no apparent reason, along with chills/shakes at times, and when that happens, I feel a very strange sensation, not painful, but still very unpleasant like an extreme weakness, in the left side of my lower torso. I also feel hungry a lot and I have to eat quite a bit to stay full, which doesn't last very long. Overall, I feel completely out of it and exhausted, and I compensate for that by drinking caffeine, which seems to soothe these symptoms. On top of all this, I have what feels like a perpetual cold in the sense that my nose will start running out of the blue, even when indoors. The sinus issues have been going on for a few months now. Also, I've been noticing small red dots that come and go every now and then on some part of my body, along with lumps. But these go away and then reappear somewhere else. So, to make a long story short, I feel like I've got some kind of chronic fatigue.
Now, a couple of months ago I found out that a girl I had been with tested positive, but this happened over a year ago, and I had been with her a few times *after* she tested positive. Unprotected. She never told me and I ended up finding out from her friend, who mentioned it nonchalantly, as if I already knew. I thought this was a mistake, and I confronted her about it, and its all true. She's tested four times over the course of the year, all positive.
Putting aside all the anger and indignation, especially considering how I trusted this person, I've resisted getting tested because I honestly don't want to know. I don't know how I'll react. On the one hand, if I test positive, it may not be a death sentence, but there's no chance in hell I'm going to take toxic AIDS medicines. I've been reading AIDS "dissident" views and what they say makes a lot of sense, but I have my doubts. But I'm scared to death of taking medication that will only make things worse.
On the other hand, if I test negative, then I still have to get tested again in a few months to make sure. One doctor I asked said its best to get tested at least three or four times to be absolutely certain!
What the hell is this **** all about? Is anything the AIDS dissident people say true? Because I'm hoping they're right, because with the way I feel right now, the prospect of going through months and months of waiting and testing and waiting and testing is going to drive me insane. I think the stress will kill me before anything else does!
Now, a couple of months ago I found out that a girl I had been with tested positive, but this happened over a year ago, and I had been with her a few times *after* she tested positive. Unprotected. She never told me and I ended up finding out from her friend, who mentioned it nonchalantly, as if I already knew. I thought this was a mistake, and I confronted her about it, and its all true. She's tested four times over the course of the year, all positive.
Putting aside all the anger and indignation, especially considering how I trusted this person, I've resisted getting tested because I honestly don't want to know. I don't know how I'll react. On the one hand, if I test positive, it may not be a death sentence, but there's no chance in hell I'm going to take toxic AIDS medicines. I've been reading AIDS "dissident" views and what they say makes a lot of sense, but I have my doubts. But I'm scared to death of taking medication that will only make things worse.
On the other hand, if I test negative, then I still have to get tested again in a few months to make sure. One doctor I asked said its best to get tested at least three or four times to be absolutely certain!
What the hell is this **** all about? Is anything the AIDS dissident people say true? Because I'm hoping they're right, because with the way I feel right now, the prospect of going through months and months of waiting and testing and waiting and testing is going to drive me insane. I think the stress will kill me before anything else does!
Then why did you come to this forum? If you believe the people that are dissident to HIV/AIDS then you should know their outcome is going to be death within a very short time if they are positive and it's going to be a horrible death at that.
here is some good advise no MATTER WHAT get tested if you havent been with her in the last 3 months you can test now and it would be conclusive female to male transmission is 1 in 1000 with blood and 1 in 2000 without goodluck
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