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Author Topic: difficulty swallowing then random muscle pokes. am i infected?  (Read 4271 times)

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Offline nguyen

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i feel that i am infected and so anxious these days... i had been in a receptive anal intercourse with ejaculation without protection few weeks ago. and after 12 days i have difficulty swallowing with slight fever (38c) and fatigue. i didn't do anything then after 5 days after i drank a prescribed a medicines by the physician, i felt better after the 6 days.. now im getting better, its just that i have random muscle aches... nono not aches. just some pokes on a muscle randomly in any part of my body, although it does not hurt nor do anything, thats what is making me anxious. i would like to have a test soon but can you asses my condition? could i am in an acute hiv phase?

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Re: difficulty swallowing then random muscle pokes. am i infected?
« Reply #1 on: July 07, 2012, 11:48:32 am »
nguyen,

You have had a risk and you do need to test. However, neither symptoms nor the lack of symptoms will ever tell you a single thing about your hiv status. ONLY testing at the appropriate time will.

The earliest you should test is at six weeks. The vast majority of people who have actually been infected will seroconvert and test positive by six weeks, with the average time to seroconversion being only 22 days. A six week negative must be confirmed at the three month point, but is highly unlikely to change.

I hope you test negative and I also hope you learn from this and stop having unprotected intercourse. Unprotected receptive anal intercourse with ejaculation is the riskiest thing you can do sexually.

Here's what you need to know in order to avoid hiv infection:

You need to be using condoms for anal or vaginal intercourse, every time, no exceptions until such time as you are in a securely monogamous relationship where you have both tested for ALL sexually transmitted infections together.

To agree to have unprotected intercourse is to consent to the possibility of being infected with an STI. Sex without a condom lasts only a matter of minutes, but hiv is forever.

Have a look through the condom and lube links in my signature line so you can use condoms with confidence.

Anyone who is sexually active should be having a full sexual health care check-up, including but not limited to hiv testing, at least once a year and more often if unprotected intercourse occurs.

If you aren't already having regular, routine check-ups, now is the time to start. As long as you make sure condoms are being used for intercourse, you can fully expect your routine hiv tests to return with negative results.

Don't forget to always get checked for all the other sexually transmitted infections as well, because they are MUCH easier to transmit than hiv. Some of the other STIs can be present with no obvious symptoms, so the only way to know for sure is to test.

Use condoms for anal or vaginal intercourse, correctly and consistently, and you will avoid hiv infection. It really is that simple!

Ann
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Re: difficulty swallowing then random muscle pokes. am i infected?
« Reply #2 on: July 07, 2012, 12:42:32 pm »
would someone tell me the majority or most cases of people who have felt the symptoms acute hiv phase? after how many days or weeks they felt something after the infection?

i know there are different stories out there, some people didnt felt any symptoms at all but i just want to know the average time to ease or clear my state of mind...

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Re: difficulty swallowing then random muscle pokes. am i infected?
« Reply #3 on: July 07, 2012, 01:03:45 pm »
nguyen,

If/when people experience seroconversion symptoms (many do not), they usually happen around two weeks after infection has taken place. The symptoms (called ARS - acute retroviral syndrome) come on all at once and go at the same time. They don't come one by one and ARS usually only lasts a few days to a week, occasionally longer.

Medications will have no effect on ARS, other than something like paracetamol bringing down a fever or making a sore throat feel better.

Again, only testing at the appropriate time (six weeks and three months when negative at six weeks) will reliably inform you of your hiv status.

I suggest you get busy with other things while you wait to test, and stay off internet hiv websites. You'll drive yourself nuts doing that.

Ann
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Re: difficulty swallowing then random muscle pokes. am i infected?
« Reply #4 on: July 10, 2012, 03:01:46 pm »
im more worried... all you told is the exact thing happened....  :o :o


am might be healed because of the medicine or it was just gone away because its almost a week passed or the acute phase of the hiv...


 :-X


nguyen,

If/when people experience seroconversion symptoms (many do not), they usually happen around two weeks after infection has taken place. The symptoms (called ARS - acute retroviral syndrome) come on all at once and go at the same time. They don't come one by one and ARS usually only lasts a few days to a week, occasionally longer.

Medications will have no effect on ARS, other than something like paracetamol bringing down a fever or making a sore throat feel better.

Again, only testing at the appropriate time (six weeks and three months when negative at six weeks) will reliably inform you of your hiv status.

I suggest you get busy with other things while you wait to test, and stay off internet hiv websites. You'll drive yourself nuts doing that.

Ann

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Re: difficulty swallowing then random muscle pokes. am i infected?
« Reply #5 on: July 10, 2012, 03:27:37 pm »
There is nothing more to be said at this point. You have to wait and get tested initially at 6 weeks after the incident. If you hopefully test negative at that point then the likelihood is that you will continue to test negative.

Good luck with that and let us know.
Andy Velez

 


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