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Testing and Symptoms??
I have been going crazy over what could be wrong with me I have had a lot of weird symptoms since Sept. My heart started fluttering and I was waking up extremely nauseated with occasional diarrhea. I panicked and thought that it was a sign of an std so I went and had blood work done for everything including hep b,c and hiv 1/2 antibody I also asked my ex to have his done and he was tested for everything including hep b,c and hiv 1/2/O antibody. At the end of september I has really bad chest congestion, no appetite, mild fever and occasional head aches still with my heart fluttering on and off. Then I had a really bad sore throat for about 5 weeks but never went to the doctor. Then in december I got a 24 hour flu and now I still wake up nauseated dizzy and weak feeling. For the past month I have also been loosing more hair. I went back to have a yearly pap done at the end of jan and they did another std screening and everything came back neg and nonreactive again they also checked my thyroid which is fine. They did a cbc and my hemoglobin was 15.6 (just barely high) and neutrophils were also just barely high and lymphocytes were low but not out of range. My obgyn said that she was not concerned and told me that it is just anxiety because I have been under a ton of stress in the last few months and prescribed paxil but I have not filled the perscription yet. I just want to know if anyone has experienced these symptoms and what it is and if anxiety could really be the cause of all of this? My last std screening was also just shy of 6 months after the last time my ex and I had been together. I guess I just panicked and thought that all of my symptoms were hiv and I don't know what I should have done or if any other testing should be done? The hiv tests were just antibody tests but my doc said that no other std testing is recommended...what do you think?
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I'm sorry to bother you guys but I have another question about hiv testing I have read about rare strains of the virus and are they all picked up by antibody tests in the US now? I have been ready on thebody.com that some of them may not be?
this forum is HIV specific...work with your doctor instead of trying to self diagnose yourself.
Do you think that this could be a sign of a different std that is rare and I wasn't tested for?
Thank you for putting my mind at ease!
what do we think?
we KNOW you dont have hiv. continue to work with your doctor if you are having health concerns...it's not hiv related
we KNOW you dont have hiv. continue to work with your doctor if you are having health concerns...it's not hiv related
Not an HIV concern.
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