Dear Doctors/Experts,
I am an Indian, 29year old, stay and work in Malaysia; I was drunk and had unprotected sex with one sex worker on 2nd July 2010. From that day i am really scared about HIV infection. Please help me to know the risks based on the symptoms and activities i describe below.
3rd to 9th july i had mild headache most of the times and it was unexplainable feel.
After that 9th i didnt feel it.
10th july i went to a doctor who is having Skin and STD clinic. He took some wet content on my penis head and side of it for testing, and after 10min he called me and showed the microscope view, there was 3 or 4 black stripes kind of bacteria he showed, and i guess he was unsure about it, and he told his guess, it can be a choncroid bacteria. Then he gave me Zithromax tablet packet containing 6 tablets inside, and told me to take 2 per day for 3 days. He told this tablet is for precaution only.
11th july i took 2 tablets, and the day was normal, didnt feel any strange.
12th july early morning 4.30AM unfortunately wokeup from sleep, felt stomach was filled with gas and urine. after passing out both, back to bed and felt my body was totally weak and shaking, feared, worried, dry throat, neck/shoulder pain, and these continued for the whole day along with these, my stomach was upset and feel like gastric problem. something happening in my stomach which i never felt in my lifetime. This is the day i had worst ever in my lifetime i believe. I was so scared on this day. I believed all these symptoms lead to hiv infection.
13th july took leave from office, morning itself went to govt hosp, and doctor suggested rapid hiv test, and it showed negative. Further doctor gave me some ordinary medicine for the symptoms i told like dry throat and etc. medicines are vitamin C tablets only as the doctor told. i didnt take those medicines as the zithromax tablets are not over yet. And i was not satisfied with the test and treatments in govt, went immediately to one private hosp for counseling, met a lady doctor and explained everything, she told me that i may be faced these symtoms bcos of hiv anxiety, so wait for 3month gap to do HIV test, and she told this is not right time to test, if we do test you may not get correct result. only hiv scare is going in my mind for the whole day. This day i felt little neck/shoulder pain and gas trouble. and zithromax course is over this day.
14th july i was very normal, but with little neck/shoulder pain and stomach upset is getting worse, every 30-40 minute my stomach get full with gas, i go bathroom to just release gas only. No other pains i felt this day. I didnt take any tablet until night. after dinner i took the 2 vitamin C tablets which gave by govt doct. Still this day i was scarred about hiv infection.
15th july i was reading about zithromax side effects from this source: http://www.drugs.com/zithromax.html, and i wondered all the symptoms i encountered are resembles with the common side effects of this tablet. and i suspected, it may be the cause as i started feeling the symptoms right next of taking this tablet. Stomach problem went more severe this day; digestion is not proper, disentry happens with half grinded food. Lots of gas fills in stomach every time.
Today 16th july, its 14th day of exposure (2weeks). Currently I have only this stomach upset/gastric problem only but little less severe than yesterday. No headache, no much neck/shoulder pain (note: am software consultant, use to sit and work for long time, which may lead to neck/shoulder/back pains I guess), no depress, no weakness, nothing else. Today is as similar as yesterday (15th)
Notes about my past: I never went to doctor since more than 3years as i didnt have any health problems. My first sex exposure was in Nov 2009 started with protected, and maximum i might did 10 times sex till these duration. All are protected except the last one. In June 2008, I took blood and urine test just for medical certificate, and the result of test is good condition.
Now i am very much confused about my symptoms and zithromax side effects and the possibility of getting HIV infection. Symptoms are related to what? i need supportive suggestions from experts and doctors here for my case.
Forget to mention, since 2 weeks I am drinking lot of water (atleast 5-6lit/day). Till now I didn’t get any of choncroid symptoms.
Today only I came to know about this MedHelp community website. And since morning I was going through lot of questions and answers from experts, I hope, I may get the replies.
PLEASE HELP ME, let me know the possibility of getting HIV, what is the risk I have now? I am completely scarred about my future I am unmarried still.
I am very sorry for the long story and taking most of your time but still I wrote this long because I want to make you clear about the activities so that I can expect relatively perfect suggestions.
Please help me.