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Author Topic: Apparently 'no risk', but worst symptoms you've probably ever heard!  (Read 2840 times)

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Hello,

I'd like to first of all commend the great work you guys do and the information you provide to people out there.

Apologies for the long post in advance, but I do have quite a lot to say. It all started after a breakup with my girlfriend of a year and a half. Long story short, it left me in a slight bit of depression and I stupidly decided to engage in some quite frankly abysmal behaviour because it truly goes against my principles and morals. Before I start, just want to reiterate that I'm a healthy male in my mid-twenties.

Exposure:
- 4th July 2017 - I visited an escort where we engaged in some deep prolonged French kissing, then she gave me protected oral sex and I ejaculated in the condom. She also gave me a full body massage and performed rimming for about 10-15 seconds. Then she gave me oral sex again with a condom before I was out of there.
- 13th July 2017 - I visited another escort. The activities were pretty much the same as the first 'exposure', but without the rimming. Deep French kissing throughout the act, protected oral, unprotected handjob and a massage.

On both occasions, I had brushed my teeth prior to going and my gums do tend to bleed and have done for the past year or so. I also used a tongue scraper.

So why the hell is he posting here you may ask? This is a NO RISK situation. Of course it is. All the science behind it says so and that's what I thought until the ordeal started around 2 weeks later.

I came down with a very high fever of around 102 which lasted a couple of days, but I was bedridden. Anyhow that passed and I was okay for a week or so until the REAL crap hit the fan.
Remember, HIV isn't even in my mind because I never put myself at 'risk'. I started feeling worn out all of a sudden one afternoon and I wasn't quite sure what was happening. This carried on for a couple of days until the glands in my neck started intensely aching, and then the glands in my groin and after, the ones in my left armpit. I went to the doctor and he said it seems like mono, ran the necessary blood test and I was negative for mono along with other relatable illnesses. So I just thought it's the after effect of the fever I had a week ago and it'll wear off soon. I was wrong. Over the next 4 weeks, I developed the following TEXTBOOK symptoms:

- EXTREME fatigue. It felt like I had been hit by a train. This lasts till today. (Over 3 months post 'exposure').
- Chronic diarrhea which lasted around 3 weeks then cleared up by itself.
- Around 7/8 ringworm rashes on my back.
- A cluster of 5/6 red spots on the centre of my chest (NEVER had any spots there before. My skin had always been clear).
- Painful spots on my scalp.
- Extreme joint/muscle pain in my legs.
- Nausea.
- Low-grade fevers and chills which lasted about 6 weeks
- EXTREMELY swollen and PAINFUL lymph nodes in my neck and groin. It feel like someone has been strangling me every minute of the day and this is lasting till today.
- Night sweats. Intermittent for about 4 nights over the whole period.
- Painful ulcers on my gums which are still there today. Gum infection for which I had to take anti-biotics for. NEVER happened before. Deep jaw pain also.
- Thrush which was confirmed by a doctor. Took Nystatin for 7 days and it did nothing.
- Peeling skin around my finger nails.
- Weight loss of around 5kg which is just under 10% of my body fat.
World of all, I'm now suffering from peripheral neuropathy in my legs which has left me with pins and needles, weakness and muscle twitches pretty much in all parts of my body.

Some issues came and went over the last 3 months, but as I write, I'm still suffering from generalised lymphadenopathy (confirmed by doctor), EXTREME fatigue (it feels like I'm glued to my bed), peripheral neuropathy and general weakness in my body. I get out of breath even walking up the stairs, considering I was running an average of 15K a week about 4 months ago before this whole ordeal started.

I have visited 4 different doctors over the course of the last 3 months, and have had 'full bloods' run twice and nothing alarming has come up. Doctors just don't know what to do with me. Everyone keeps telling me its stress and anxiety, but I promise you, its not psychosomatic.  The only thing I have noticed is my white blood cell count has gone down from 699 at the end of July, to 520 at the start of October. I don't feel the same anymore, nor do I look the same anymore. It feels like I have been a punching bag and have been hit and continue being hit on every part of my body imaginable.

Testing:
- 4th Generation DUO tests: 5.5 weeks, 9 weeks, 11 weeks and 12 weeks after the last 'exposure'. Thankfully, all negative.
Unfortunately, as much as I'm aware you guys don't like negative people being nosy, I have read the 'How was your seroconversion' in the other forum and what I have been through matches up exactly to what most of those folks experienced.

It's just so difficult to move on when I still continue to experience what feels like the worst flu ever for 3 months and counting, and it just so happened to be after my stupid acts. Anyhow, I feel like the virus has a hold of me and my body isn't producing anti-bodies to fight it. I decided to go for an RNA PCR test earlier this week, result of which I'm expecting at the start of next week. I truly hope that comes back negative because after 12 weeks of the usual testing, and according to science, not even putting myself at any risk, a result otherwise would completely break me, along with all my hopes and dreams I have envisaged, but most importantly, letting my family and loved ones down.

Anyhow, thanks for reading. I have been visiting this forum for the past couple of months and wanted to share what I'm going through.

Thank you.

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Re: Apparently 'no risk', but worst symptoms you've probably ever heard!
« Reply #1 on: October 20, 2017, 03:16:34 pm »
You know you had no risk and we do not assess symptoms as they mean nothing. If you ever do contract HIV it was not from anything posted here.

Move on with your life and so you know I am serious about this if you post again about this rubbish it will be an imidate ban.


Trust me it's out of kindness.

I wish you well and hope you get over the flu or whatever is making you sick soon.

Jim
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