Aa
scared.
So recently I've had symptoms that were out of the ordinary. I started looking them up and came across symptoms of hiv. I bought an oraquick at home test and it was negative. I am pretty sure I have oral thrush (which In the last 5 months found out I have asthma and been using an inhaler, Dr didn't tell me to wash my mouth out after every use and found out that can cause oral thrush as well) but I've also been experiencing weight loss, feeling very space and agitated very very easily. I just feel out of the ordinary and when I look at later stages of hiv I have mostly all those symptoms besides fever, night sweats, sores.. but u am experiencing weight loss, agitation to where it's hard to function sometimes, fuzzy memory, numbness in my fingers and toes, tired all the time, bruising, I did have rashes appear on my arms, thighs, and hands randomly but they were always just a patch that itched. And then it would disappear within 20 min. So I guess my question is, can oral thrush( candidiasis) cause those symptoms as well? I'm just terrified And I know I should just go get tested but I'm not ready. I'm scared to.
Thats what I thought, until the guy I'm with got really sick out of nowhere and he had the same exact symptoms that you get within a month of being infected. I'm obviously going to the Dr though...just kind of needing some input.
It was not protected...sigh. And exposure was about 6 months ago I believe. If there was exposure since I'm not 100 percent sure if they were infected or not.
As far as I was aware, I'm not 100 percent sure if the 2 people I had intercourse with are infected. I just know that I'm feeling really different and I met someone (before I even was worried or had any thoughts of hiv) who after a month got sick out of nowhere and I know the first symptoms of infection is like the flu. So why would the at home test I took say negative? If it was too early to test, why do I have symptoms of later stages of hiv.
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