Author Topic: how was your "seroconversion"? (Read 477908 times)

WellHungarian · « **Reply #50 on:** August 09, 2008, 07:04:48 pm »

AFter reading in here I think maybe mine was not so bad. I felt a little sick and weak for a few days but it was like having the flu or something.

BT65 · « **Reply #51 on:** August 09, 2008, 07:27:49 pm »

Quote from: alberche on August 09, 2008, 01:37:54 pm

very likely to be a very recent infection, not only due to sympthoms, but to my still high number of CD4 (1100) and becasuse viral load lowed itself from 264.000 to 60.000 in 4 weeks. She proposed me to start with meds immediately. So I did.

I'm curious as to why your doctor wanted to start you on meds with such high CD4's.

RapidRod · « **Reply #52 on:** August 09, 2008, 07:40:18 pm »

alberche, find a new doctor. There is no reason that you were put on meds. Your CD4 were within the normal range.

redhotmuslbear · « **Reply #53 on:** August 09, 2008, 08:34:27 pm »

Quote from: wow1969 on August 09, 2008, 10:32:43 am

I am soooo jealous ... All of you losing weight while converting .... I have been so stressed in the last month since being diagnosed I've gained 14 lbs in stress eating UGH .... The only symptom I had duing conversion was swollen lymph nodes. My Dr. just thought it was allergies and nothing to worry about. Damn, if I had to get this, couldn't I have dropped 30 - 40 lbs? Serously, I run marathons less weight is a good thing .. <sigh> i guess it's like Lestat about the Dark Gift .... it's different for eveyone.

Ha! I love it!

My seroconversion was horrible for months with mono-like symptoms. I went from being a chunky boy to a hairy twink while my doctors tested me for everything they could think of, but that was before we had HIV tests. In hindisght, I erred in not sending a proper thank-you note to the big gorgeous Swede who gave me syphilis and a little bonus to last a lifetime.

ArisGreekSquared · « **Reply #54 on:** August 19, 2008, 10:21:46 am »

I got conjunctivitis in my right eye and a sore throat.

hivsweden · « **Reply #55 on:** August 20, 2008, 01:42:40 pm »

What I think was my seroconversion (4yrs previous to my diagnosis) was a really bad flu with some strange white spots with rough edges and I couldn't taste or smell anything. I couldn't even smell ammonia.

daisychain · « **Reply #56 on:** August 20, 2008, 04:43:04 pm »

Hiya

I had absolutley no symptoms whatsoever.
Just thought id add.

angelx

jennynyc7 · « **Reply #57 on:** August 22, 2008, 02:37:42 pm »

Mine was pretty bad. Started out with minor leg pains that got so severe I could barely walk. I had a sore throat, my mouth was covered with Thrush that eventually went down my throat. I had a rash that started mid-back up to my chin. Several episodes of diarrhea, no vomiting though. All of this lasted a week in which during that time I was thought to of had leukemia. I was infected on Dec 24, 2007, became ill on Jan 3, 2008 and tested postive on Feb 12, 2008.

Jen in KY

BT65 · « **Reply #58 on:** August 22, 2008, 02:51:00 pm »

Welcome to the forums, Jen. I look forward to getting to know you better.

xyahka · « **Reply #59 on:** August 22, 2008, 07:17:14 pm »

It all happenned suddenly....

one day i woke up and started vomitting everything i ate... felt my stomach was closet and lost appetite for couple of days.. and if i ate something... i would go vomitting few minutes afterwards.

Then came the fever, headache, gases.

And same day a strong diarrhoea also appeared...

i got my face all red.

i went to see different doctors and they were all thinking it was something else... it lasted about a week and lost 3kg during it. Then i took the decission to test for something none suspected and.... well... got the news.

Juan Carlos

jennynyc7 · « **Reply #60 on:** August 24, 2008, 11:15:24 am »

Thanks Bettytacy! I am glad I found this site!

jen

BT65 · « **Reply #61 on:** August 24, 2008, 05:04:31 pm »

Quote from: jennynyc7 on August 24, 2008, 11:15:24 am

Thanks Bettytacy! I am glad I found this site!

jen

Jen, why don't you join us ladies in the "positive women" part of the forum. There's a thread in there called the ladie's thread where we talk about our daily lives, struggles, little victories etc. and support each other. We'd love to have you!
Luv,
Betty

Winiroo · « **Reply #62 on:** August 24, 2008, 09:08:49 pm »

Hi Jen. So you dont have to look for the thread if you are interested this is where us ladies are currently chit chatting.

http://forums.poz.com/index.php?topic=22681.msg288489#msg288489

Welcome to AIDSmeds!

CollGrad08 · « **Reply #63 on:** August 25, 2008, 10:17:36 pm »

Flu like symptoms one weekend, nausea, headache, fatigue, no vomitting. Sick all week, worse during the week then turned into neck pain and pain in my eyes. Went to the ER thinking it was Meningitis. Hospital gave me spinal tap and told me it looked like viral meningitis then asked me to consent to a HIV test and two weeks later at my follow up appt my doctor told me I was positive.

Heartache began.

mpls_apple · « **Reply #64 on:** September 04, 2008, 09:33:31 pm »

My seroconversion actually happened a year before i was actually diagnosed as being hiv positive.

I had been sick for over two weeks with a high fever, it stayed at around 101-102 even with taking huge doses of tylenol, I was working a double shift at the prison and i told my LT. i had to leave and couldnt stay. i went to the dr and they ran test after test after test on me. In the end they diagnosed me with CMV...but hiv negitive. The dr's were puzzled because CMV in adults is extremely rare, usually only occuring in people with compromised immune systems.

A year later i took a hiv test and it came back positive. My Dr think's that my CMV episode was actually the hiv going through my body but it didnt show up at that time...

Now 3.5 years from the initial CMV i am overall doing well. No meds as of yet. I had one huge ordeal with MRSA staph infection on the back of my neck, which spread to my face where i had to have a plastic surgeon remove the build up of infection from my face...luckily i made it through this

jennynyc7 · « **Reply #65 on:** September 05, 2008, 03:08:02 pm »

Hi apple,

Yeah I had CMV and Epstein-Barr virus' although the Dr's feel they were not active.

mpls_apple · « **Reply #66 on:** September 07, 2008, 07:13:10 pm »

Hey back Jenny...yeah i don't ever want to go through that again...

HivToTell · « **Reply #67 on:** September 10, 2008, 01:15:41 pm »

I think I had no symptoms, or I can’t remember having any. I can’t be sure how long I have been HIV+, but it was found out few weeks ago while having some other problems. Few years ago I had low fever and some flu symptoms. I don’t know if that was it, or was it just flu… you know, sometimes flu is just a flu ;-)

alberche · « **Reply #68 on:** September 10, 2008, 06:37:12 pm »

Quote from: Bettytacy on August 09, 2008, 07:27:49 pm

I'm curious as to why your doctor wanted to start you on meds with such high CD4's.

Dear Betty, because starting so soon helps to keep your inmune system in good shape -or in a better one- in the long term. Nowadays, 2 and a half years after, I am above 1.600 CD4 and no viral load, and no other major complaints apart from common digestive issues related to meds and triglycerides a bit over 200 mg in my blood tests. (I am on Truvada+Reyataz+Norvir)

The initial idea of my doctor was to start at that moment, very soon, and then, six months or one year after, stop meds and wait and see what happenned. But, some months after I started with meds, a multinational study, a part of which they were conducting at the hospital, in Barcelone, showed that stopping meds, even if started a few days or weeks after the moment of infection, will lead to a quick viral rebound.

(Now doctors are re-thinking this idea and planning to start in these cases of very soon diagnosis with very agressive treatment combos, including transcriptase, protease, integrase and entry inhibitors, which may lead in a part of people to the possibility of stopping meds a few months after and then staying in a stable condition during lots of years, maybe for a lifetime... I hope they could achieve this goal someday, because this will be usefull also to find new approaches for the rest of people (a big majority) who had not such an earlier diagnosis)

So, she told me at that point that, I could choose stopping, what would mean a viral rebound and then a situation similar to not having been on meds, but probably with a slowlier disease progression that if I actually haven't took the meds, or keeping on meds and seeing how well or bad my body will cope with secondary effects. I choosed to keep on meds and I do not regret this decision at all.

Anyway, in the term of two or three years from now I would have to start anyway... as there's more and more evidence that it is much better to start soon with meds than waiting until the 300 or 350 CD4 limit.

In addition, and I reckon this is a very personal issue, I feel released having started meds. I don't know if I could cope with the idea of waiting, and waiting, and waiting during some years while seeing my inmune system and my body deteriorating without doing nothing but wait... to get to the point of starting meds, and coping with side effects as well, but from quite a worst starting point.

Hugs :-)

Sweet_C · « **Reply #69 on:** September 12, 2008, 03:21:57 am »

I had no symptoms whatsoever. I had my routine PAP and my doctor found trich. I decided to get an STD test. At that time I was just worried about herpes, and had no real symptoms of that either. I knew it was HIV when he called me to come in instead of giving my results over the phone.

Tar Heel · « **Reply #70 on:** November 26, 2008, 08:15:19 pm »

Summer of 2005. I knew I had done some risky/stupid sexual stuff in the spring. I began running a fever, swollen lymph nodes and so tired I couldn't complete a shower. I went to my MD, he drew blood (I told him of my risky behavior) and it came back HIV-. But my platelets were dangerously low. So he sent me to a Hematologist thinking I had leukemia. The Hematologist drew a HIV viral load which came back over 200K.

But there was no diarrhea, no GI upset and no rash. Strange how differently people react to the virus.

lusopt · « **Reply #71 on:** November 28, 2008, 11:54:03 am »

I dont remember having any kind of illness during this past 2 years. Always felt fine.

072508 · « **Reply #72 on:** December 08, 2008, 07:02:13 pm »

night one, went out and drank.
night two, went out and drank.
night three, went out and drank.
night four, felt tired, kinda sore, went out and drank.
night five, tired, sore, swollen nodes, went out and drank.

the next morning i could barely move without hurting, thought i was just dehyrated from drinking so much. flu like symptoms, diarrhea, very tired, very sore, sore throat, hearing kinda came and went, i was on the phone at work and was typing what i was hearing and i skipped half the words cause i couldnt make them out of what they were saying.

i thought i was just sick from going out so much and not getting a lot of sleep. was going on for about 5 days after my nights out. got better and figured it was just from going out so much. i gave blood at work in late june and they said, And if theres a problem you will get a call and if you dont then we will see you in october for the blood drive. i got sick but never got a call so i thought i was fine. i was sick the week of july 14, got a voice mail july 23, didnt call them back till the 24th, demanded they tell me what it was over the phone, they wouldnt. went on the 25th of july and they said it came back + for two tests and the western blot was pending. i called an ID dr 7/28 and got blood drawn that day and saw they 2 weeks later.

mecch · « **Reply #73 on:** December 21, 2008, 04:10:29 pm »

Sudden photophobia quickly followed by severe headaches and muscle aches that lasted several days. Mild to no fever, no digestion problems. Felt better but had painful esophagus ulcers, and rash.

It was the worst headache of my life. I was totally averse to sunlight for weeks. Thought I was becoming a vampire.

Docs saw me three times at a good clinic with unknown flu diagnosis and specifically no suspicion of HIV.

Scotian · « **Reply #74 on:** December 30, 2008, 04:35:40 pm »

like many...it started with what i thought was a really bad flu. but more severe and longer lasting. i had extreme fatigue(lasted a few months), couldn't sleep at night for more than 15-20 minutes at a time, night sweats, sore tongue, diahrrea, lost 15+ pounds, muscle joint aches, constant headache - even my 'hair hurt'

. after a week or so went to doctor - bloodtest confirmed HIV+. he sent me to ID clinic: first bloodwork VL >750,000 CD4 310 (April '08) started on meds Sept '08.

melloyellow · « **Reply #75 on:** January 06, 2009, 09:06:21 pm »

Quote from: BT65 on February 25, 2008, 05:27:44 pm

Is, the only thing I really remember about my serconversion was a lymph node on my neck that swelled out the size of a golfball. But we're all different.

May I ask what does serconversion? New to this and don't understand everything.

Thanks

Ann · « **Reply #76 on:** January 07, 2009, 05:24:25 am »

Hello Mello, welcome to the forums.

Seroconversion is the name for the process the body goes through when producing antibodies, in this case, antibodies for hiv. To break the word down, sero means blood, as in "serum", and conversion means change. The blood changes from testing hiv-antibody negative to hiv-antibody positive.

With hiv, this typically begins to happen around two weeks after the virus has entered the body. The average time for enough antibodies to be produced in order to be detected on an ELISA (hiv antibody) test is 22 days. The vast majority of people who have been infected will produce enough antibodies to be detected by six weeks after the introduction of the virus into the body.

When the body makes antibodies, certain chemicals are produced that can cause a person to feel like they have the flu. It isn't actually the virus itself that causes the illness, but rather the body's reaction to the presence of the virus.

NOT ALL PEOPLE experience any symptoms of seroconversion. I know far more positive people who never noticed any symptoms than people who felt ill.

Hope that clears things up a bit for you. If you have any additional questions, don't be shy - ask.

Ann

PS - an antibody is a protein produced by a specific type of white blood cell. The immune system uses antibodies to recognise and fight against foreign invaders into the body - such as a bacteria or virus.

viktor · « **Reply #77 on:** February 05, 2009, 04:37:33 pm »

Around 6 weeks after my risky exposure I had many ARS's (fever, swollen lymph node, very bad leg pain and headache). Fever lasted for 1 week and the others a few days.
7 months after the exposure I developed oral hairy leukoplakia on my tongue and pnemonia (long disease) caused by yeast infection of the gullet which spreads to the longs.
It's a bit dramatic or weird that I still (after 7 months) test negative with antibody testing but my doctors have diagnosed me with two characteristic ARC (PCP-Pneumocystis pneumonia and oral hairy leukoplakia which is unfortunately biospy proven) which are specific to HIV positive persons.
I have also been informed that the sensitivity of antibody testing is never 100% so I am one of the million cases which experiences such an uncommon situation.
The worse thing is that I can not get medicines for anti-retroviral therapy 'cause I test negative for HIV.
God bless me, I have nothing more to say..

Tim Horn · « **Reply #78 on:** February 06, 2009, 07:54:03 am »

viktor:

This forum is strictly for people who have tested postive for HIV -- you clearly have not and therefore have not been diagnosed with HIV infection.

If you're still concerned about HIV testing, although I don't think this is necessary as you've tested negative well beyond the window period, you should limit your comments to our "Am I Infected?" forum. And for what it's worth, oral hairy leukoplakia is not specific to HIV-positive people, regardless of whether or not it is "biopsy proven." As for what you're calling PCP, I seriously doubt this in the absence of a positive HIV antibody test and extremely low CD4+ cell count.

A positive antibody test, evidence of HIV-RNA in your blood and a falling CD4+ cell count would be evidence of your leukoplakia being HIV-related. Instead of putting random pieces together to draw your own conclusion about what ails you, I suggest a more complete workup with your doctor.

Please don't post in anything other than that "Am I Infected?" forum again. You've been warned.

Tim Horn

mpositive · « **Reply #79 on:** February 12, 2009, 09:34:51 pm »

I went thru the Acute HIV stage, well, actually still going thru it. It began for me the first week of Nov. 08, kept ending up in the emergency room from dehydration. Had so much diarrhea. The stupid hospital kept sending me home after a few hours of fluids. Plus I had tremendous pain in my gut. After a while, a month later, I ended up in a different hospital. I had CMV Colitis.....my entry to HIV. The first hospital misdiagnosed me with Mono....lol....at 41 years old? Anyhow, started with 300k VL and a CD4 count of 1290. Now I am at CD4 584 and VL>100k. So....my story.

jampdx · « **Reply #80 on:** February 13, 2009, 05:23:32 pm »

Gosh, everyone's answer is completely different. I have to say, mine was AWFUL. I was sick as a dog. My lymph nodes were so swollen, extremely sore throat, fever 103-104 for over a week. It's finally pretty much at bay, but whoa Jack!

michaelcamluong · « **Reply #81 on:** January 26, 2015, 11:20:08 pm »

Quote from: ArisGreekSquared on August 19, 2008, 10:21:46 am

I got conjunctivitis in my right eye and a sore throat.

AT · « **Reply #82 on:** January 27, 2015, 06:34:56 am »

I lost weight and had fatigue for a few weeks. Then I was sick in bed for a full 24 hours (July 2014) with sweats and fever losing a few more pounds. A lymph vessel on the back of my neck swelled forming a bump. I couldn't regain the weight no matter how much crappy food I ate. And, diahrrea throughout. Ugh. That was June-November of last year.

Joe K · « **Reply #83 on:** January 28, 2015, 01:33:33 am »

Zombie thread alert.

We prefer you to start a new thread, rather than resurrecting one that has not had a response since 2009. We call them zombie threads for a reason. They died once and should remain buried.

Joe

Agustin · « **Reply #84 on:** January 28, 2015, 06:05:50 pm »

EDIT: Sorry, I thought this was a new thread. My bad

corkguy · « **Reply #85 on:** February 04, 2015, 12:19:38 pm »

In a moment of madness i injected drugs with a guy. Had never done it before and I think i learned my lesson. 2 weeks after this i got very ill, fever, itchy, terrible cramps and diahorreaha. I got tested about a week after this as my doctor recommended it, I am normally healthy and this "bug" was lasting a lot longer that it normally would. I think that was mine, does this sound right?

Please don't start preaching about drugs.....lesson learned!

JosephP · « **Reply #86 on:** February 25, 2015, 10:03:28 pm »

Sorry, couldn't find the new thread for this 'zombie'. I, on the other hand, never got sick. Never knew I was infected! Found out only because I applied for insurance.. Then I began to lose weight so fast that was very alarming. Saw my ID doctor and she put me on meds immediately as my CD4 was 198.. My VL was about 78K. Numbers weren't too bad, but I was going downhill and fast...

beachlife315 · « **Reply #87 on:** February 26, 2015, 09:28:34 pm »

I have never head of seroconversion until now, but looking back now, its all starting to make sense.
11.17.2014 Test Neg at the Health Dept
11.22.2014 Had unprotected sex (I bottomed) with guy I was with 4 times over previous 2 months. He did not ejaculate in me, but I know that does not matter.
11.24.2014 Developed a severe toothache and swollen neck. Dentist out of town so I let it go.
11.30.2014 Started feeling ill, like something was out of sorts.
12.01.2014 Notice red streak from under armpit down to elbow and could not extend my arm. Went to the ER and told I had a blood infection. Pumped full of antibiotics and put on antibiotics and sent home.
12.02.2014 Able to get in to dentist. Told I had a cracked and infected molar and a root canal performed to stop infection. We believed at the time this caused my blood infection.
12.03.2014 Running a fever and back to ER. Said I was fine and sent home.
12.06.2014 Still not feeling well. Developing a rash. Went back to ER, they said I was having reaction to antibiotics and to stop taking them and sent me home.
12.08.2014 Chills and nausea went to walk-in clinic. Diagnosed with flu and sent home.
Starting feeling better over next few weeks. Never lost any weight, but my face seemed noticeably thinner
Met up with the same guy middle of January, 2015 and had unprotected sex...again, including oral.
01.19.2015 Developed Strep throat and put on Z-Pak
02.08.2015 Developed severe rash on chest, that I still have and has spread to neck, arms and legs.
02.18.2015 Test Pos at the Health Dept
...and now, here I am.
Jim

pozinHI · « **Reply #88 on:** March 21, 2015, 11:43:25 pm »

I am not totally sure when this happened to me. I am pretty sure though it was back in 2003 after having a risky sexual encounter. The following week i had flu like symptoms and hives. Again, I am not sure of this timing as I was not diagnosed until years later.

camille07 · « **Reply #89 on:** March 22, 2015, 06:08:30 am »

Hello-

I woke up to a sore throat, head ache and fever. The sore throat continued to get so bad that I knew something was seriously wrong. The inside of my mouth and throat were covered in a herpes type rash. I drove myself to the ER. The doctor said I had mono or strept throat. Though this was the worst case he ever saw. The pain was brutal. I told him I felt I was a risk factor for HIV, because I suspected my partner was, and we were waiting for the test results. Long story, but this moron said, he didn't feel that I was infected. It's considered one of the worst hospitals in NJ.

mecch · « **Reply #90 on:** March 23, 2015, 06:40:00 pm »

Quote from: camille07 on March 22, 2015, 06:08:30 am

I told him I felt I was a risk factor for HIV, because I suspected my partner was, and we were waiting for the test results. Long story, but this moron said, he didn't feel that I was infected. It's considered one of the worst hospitals in NJ.

Sometimes this is about a crappy doctor, and not a judgement of the hospital.

I sufferred over 5 months with a scabies infection. 2 times the head of dermatology at a famous teaching university in Switzerland misdiagnosed me, said it was sweating from too much sports! 2x! And scabies is so easily treated in Switzerland because the French have a pill for it, not all that messy cream stuff like in the US.

And when i had seroconversion, I went to a chic swiss clinic, and was twice diagnosed with "flu" even though I maybe had risk factors, just being sexually active and gay, (and it was the worst flu ever, like meningitis I thought) and they said, "when you feel better, go to your GP for an HIV test if you want but we think its the flu." I went to my GP and was diagnosed seroconverting, even before I had antibodies.

So, just bad doctors, or a good doctor on a bad day, or in the wrong circumstances.

I think a personal doctor, who knows you, can be a key for this sort of sleuthing.

Reallove92 · « **Reply #91 on:** April 30, 2015, 09:22:22 pm »

Hey everyone, my seroconversion was horrible! Absolutely horrible! I didn't know at the time what was happening but it became clear when I got the news a few months after.. It started in my neck, and a headache with high fever, it got worse and worse ended up in the hospital they took my blood I have negative HIV results at the time, but it's made my organs swell blood counts all messed up, I lost 12 pounds in 10days it was terrible every doctor I saw said it was a viral infection, yeah rite thanks a lot for letting me go months with out knowing what was really wrong with me.

PaulRevere · « **Reply #92 on:** May 11, 2015, 10:20:44 am »

Not really sure where people are getting these sore throats as a seroconversion symptom. HIV doesn't attack the lining of the respiratory system. Think most of you probably had a cold/flu and just happen to test positive because you probably were before you got the sore throat or you had a false positive.

zach · « **Reply #93 on:** May 11, 2015, 10:54:14 am »

@PaulRevere

excuse me who are you? and why you do come in on your first post, without introducing yourself or getting to know the members here, and just offer up your dismissive analysis on the experiences of our members that are just sharing their story?

not really sure where you get off.

PaulRevere · « **Reply #94 on:** May 11, 2015, 03:57:20 pm »

Wow Zach. Why are you so mad? I only made a statement on sore throat as a seroconvert symptom. Honestly, I didn't know I was suppose to introduce myself and get to know others before speaking. But I think what i said is true. Sore throat is rarely, if ever, a symptom of initial HIV infection. That would be similar to the hep virus causing a sore throat. Both virus attack one certain thing in the body...liver and immune cells.

zach · « **Reply #95 on:** May 11, 2015, 04:08:15 pm »

you've been a member here since january, and you chose your first post months after you've joined to call out people as having a false positive?

i would have PMd you, but you haven't posted enough times to open that feature.

http://i-base.info/qa/284

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The most common HIV seroconversion symptoms include a combination of several of the following:
fatigue (tiredness)
fever (high temperature)
sore throat.
rash.
headache.
loss of appetite.
aching muscles and joints.
swollen lymph glands.
What is seroconversion and what are the symptoms? | Q ...
i-base.info/qa/284

Joe K · « **Reply #96 on:** May 11, 2015, 04:19:20 pm »

Quote from: PaulRevere on May 11, 2015, 03:57:20 pm

Wow Zach. Why are you so mad? I only made a statement on sore throat as a seroconvert symptom. Honestly, I didn't know I was suppose to introduce myself and get to know others before speaking. But I think what i said is true. Sore throat is rarely, if ever, a symptom of initial HIV infection. That would be similar to the hep virus causing a sore throat. Both virus attack one certain thing in the body...liver and immune cells.

Maybe, Zach reacted, because it's really bad form, to come onto a new forum and slam folks who are sharing their seroconversion stories. These forums are here to support all our members in whatever capacity that we can. What we don't do here, is to criticize members sharing personal aspects of their lives, to make some cheap shots. You are also wrong that ARS cannot cause many issues that extend beyond the liver and immune cells.

Joe

leatherman · « **Reply #97 on:** May 11, 2015, 05:43:45 pm »

Quote from: PaulRevere on May 11, 2015, 03:57:20 pm

Both virus attack one certain thing in the body...liver and immune cells.

actually that's two things, not one.

, liver and immune cells. Also Viral hepatitis is mainly a liver disease; while HIV is an immune system disease. While there is some cross-over of symptoms and affected body parts, I don't know that comparing them both by the body parts possibly affected is the right way to form the analogy.

as is often mentioned in the AII? forum, don't put too much stock into symptoms anyway. When a person's immune system is hyper-activated (the immune system response to the virus along with an increasing inflammation) in response to a viral HIV attack, "seroconversion" symptoms can also be the reaction to other stimuli. An immune system could over-react to a rhinovirus or heighten an allergy attack. System wide inflammation could also cause irritation of the bowels, skin, and/or mucus membranes (ie nose, throat, eyes, etc)

I often joke about the side effect listing on medications.

Why you could name two dozen physical reactions (rash, sore throat, nausea, diarrhea, vomiting, headache, fatigue, dizziness, sleepiness, insomnia, fever, swollen lymph nodes**, etc) that are possible reactions to medications. But all of those symptoms could also be reactions during seroconversion. Or it could be because you are stressed, ate bad food, didn't go to bed early enough, or drank too much the night before.

certainly there is no way to predict how, how much, or how long a person's immune system is going to respond during seroconversion, and there is certainly no way to rule out most any symptom as a symptom of seroconversion. Could a sore throat be a sign of seroconversion? certainly; but so could a headache. LOL

About 80% of people notice symptoms. I, like nearly 20% of HIV+ people, never experienced any noticeable seroconversion symptoms. (something I'm sure I mentioned somewhere in the dawn of time when this thread started LOL)

** some good advice: if your lymph nodes are swollen, quit messing with them because that usually only aggravates them further. LOL

TheNormalLife · « **Reply #98 on:** May 11, 2015, 08:19:31 pm »

Quote from: PaulRevere on May 11, 2015, 03:57:20 pm

But I think what i said is true. Sore throat is rarely, if ever, a symptom of initial HIV infection.

Well thanks God. That sore throat I had 14 days after unprotected sex in Europe, had nothing to do with seroconversion. I'm so relieved and laugh at my bad luck of getting 4 different false-positives. I wonder what the doctor is counting in the viral load. Could it be vitamins?

Anyways, I think I should put for sale a 3-month-supply of Truvada and Efavirenz. Any takers?

Ray.

Reallove92 · « **Reply #99 on:** May 17, 2015, 05:03:43 pm »

All of my symptoms,
Neck muscle pain,
Head ache
Leg pain
Fatigue
Sore throat! Had tons of red spots in my mouth!
Throwing up,
Couldn't eat felt like I was swallowing air!
Lost 12 pounds in 10 days
Had low WBC count and very low blood platlet count
Liver was swollen
Prostate gland was swollen
And both my kidney filled up with little stones
I wanted to die.

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