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Hi first i would like to thank you all for this great forum.
my story is a follows. i had protected sex with CSW from Tailand around 3 months ago. i got really scared around amonth after the exposure when i started to get a rash on my back and chest and lower abdomen. i got soo scared and develioped abdominal pain and paniked when i read that rash followed by abdominal pain on 6 weeks is a sign of HIV infection according to wikipidia. i lost a couple of kgs and then i said i had to go see my doctor. i told the doctor about everything and he told me not to worry and that i donmt even need testing becuase i was protected. i also got a stomach bug and got it treated buy doctor. i tested after the 3 months mark using rapid test it was -ve. my question to you guys is do my symptoms sound like ARS and do i need to test again using ELISA. thanx.
my story is a follows. i had protected sex with CSW from Tailand around 3 months ago. i got really scared around amonth after the exposure when i started to get a rash on my back and chest and lower abdomen. i got soo scared and develioped abdominal pain and paniked when i read that rash followed by abdominal pain on 6 weeks is a sign of HIV infection according to wikipidia. i lost a couple of kgs and then i said i had to go see my doctor. i told the doctor about everything and he told me not to worry and that i donmt even need testing becuase i was protected. i also got a stomach bug and got it treated buy doctor. i tested after the 3 months mark using rapid test it was -ve. my question to you guys is do my symptoms sound like ARS and do i need to test again using ELISA. thanx.
Go read their disclaimer. You didn't have a risk. End of subject....
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That is not to say that you will not find valuable and accurate information in Wikipedia; much of the time you will. However, Wikipedia cannot guarantee the validity of the information found here. The content of any given article may recently have been changed, vandalized or altered by someone whose opinion does not correspond with the state of knowledge in the relevant fields.
so the time line they put is BS then? becuase it really scares me that a respectable site like them put atime line and then i read on the expert forum from reputable doctors that thier is no timeline for symptoms? my head is spining i dont know which one to believe?
Find another place to get your information. You had protected sex. NO RISK. Whatever the symptoms you are having, has nothing to do with ARS or HIV.
thank teak but what ever i read on wikipidia happened to me. the rash at week 3 and 4 the gastric problems on week 6 the wieght loss ( they said 10% of body wieght i only lost around 4 - 5 %) the time line rthey put for ARS all happened to me.
Now come on. You didn't have a risk of contracting HIV.
You are reading content posted in the HIV Prevention Community
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PrEP is used by people with high risk to prevent HIV infection.
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Can you get HIV from casual contact, like hugging?
Frequency of HIV testing depends on your risk.
Post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP) may help prevent HIV infection.
