oral symptoms

[thaitrouble]

As you may recall, at the end of march 2011, i had a high risk encounter with a thai sex worker. And suffered what I believed to be ARS (although most people here disagreed!). At 6 weeks I tested negative. I am now at 13 week and plan to test when I am back in the UK. However, I have just been diagnosed with Oral thrush (mild at back of tounge) and had a sore tounge and mouth ulcers for 4 days. Tounge feels like I have bitten it, roof of mouth feels burnt as does tip of tounge. I have had one or two ulcers on the inside of my lip.
I am aware mouth ulcers and thrush are sometimes (20%) accociated with ARS, and then later in HIV infection (>5 years)...so I am just wondering what I am experiencing now?

[thaitrouble]

Thrush or not, today I received a negative test 4 months after the incident.
It was taken in an Africa hospital and was a white plastic box with white window, with a control line after test (no second line for positive). Is this reliable?

[LIZZIE LOU]

we're not drs and cannot diagnose anyone on this forum...and looking at pixs of ppl's tongues is just gross !

[thaitrouble]

Lizzie, Nystatin treatment didnt work for Thrush...7 days of Flucozanole also didn't work. Starting to think my GP has misdiagnosed me.
http://profile.imageshack.us/user/strong_tim/
Here are pictures, what is you opinion? Thursh like or just bacterial growth?
Thanks

[thaitrouble]

Thanks Lizzie, I believe you also said my orginal 'ARS' symptoms were not common to ARS.
I am concerned that my 6 week test was a 2nd generation - (it was in Africa) hence why I am still concerned.

[LIZZIE LOU]

must be a virus...cant connect it to hiv infection because of the timing.

it is HIGHLY unlikely that your 6 week negative test result will change.  expect a negative !

[ricky_id]

Sounds rather due to your bad feeling about HIV or something else, but I can't tell anything without your test result at the 3rd month post-exposure or beyond.

[thaitrouble]

Ricky,
Now I am very concerned, This weekend I suffered vomitting all saturday night, then sunday lunch time I needed to sleep as I felt so ill again sunday evening. (nausea ect). Same on monday night. Tuesday I had my apatite back but then got no sleep due to flying back to europe overnight....I felt terrible, aching, nausea, and sore throat. Today, after a good nights sleep I real better, slight nausea and sore throat, my throat also feels blocked.
Is it common for ARS to come Thrush, mouth ulcers ---> Vomiting nausea ---> aching --> sore throat or would they all come at the same time.
I am concerned as if it were food posioning or something I would have diarrear or it would last 12-24 hours. Off to the doctors tomorrow.

[ricky_id]

Very little chance given your previous result but we'll see. Not all positives are true. If one gets a positive result on his test, he'll be referred to a confirmatory test like Western Blot, which will have the final say on the status. The good news is positive results have been here before but very rare. The last time I saw such was 3 months ago.

[thaitrouble]

Thanks Ricky.... I will post results next week.... I am sure I will not be the first on this forum to post positive.

[ricky_id]

Sounds unlikely given the period where it happens, but refer to your test result beyond 3 months PE to see if it's the case conclusively. Otherwise I can't conclude anything.

[thaitrouble]

Thanks Ricky,

Does sore burnt feeling tounge (without burn) and roof of mouth (didnt look ulcered) run consistant with early HIV infection? And I thought ARS comes in the first 2-4 weeks, not at 12-13 weeks!
Cheers
(PS. Agreed that symptoms are terrible to assess. But I guess we all look for relief from - 'your symptoms are not consistant with HIV ARS!!!).

[ricky_id]

Unlikely due to HIV given the test result at the 6th week post-exposure but you can totally rule it out from HIV if you get negative result by now. HIV assessment through symptoms is terrible, really.