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What were the symptoms that you personally had to suspect you had HIV?
- Thread starter Guvna
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Guvna said:
Truth is, there are no typical symptoms of an HIV infection. Most people don't know they have it without testing. (unless it's advanced enough that they have become subject to an opportunistic infection)
You'll hear a lot of people who are paranoid about it describing diahrrea, etc...but that's just paranoia.
Go and do a search for Acute Retroviral Syndrome. I don't know all the facts, but I think most people experience it soon after their initial exposure to HIV. For me, I had flu-like symptoms about two or three weeks after being exposed. I had a fever, muscle aches, etc....
For me it just didn't feel like the normal flu though...but I think this was pyschological...I knew I had put myself at risk recently so I think I was smart enough to realize that something was up even though at the time I had no idea what ARS was. ARS rangs from mild to pretty severe in some cases...mine was fairly mild. I went to the doctor and got a viral load test and thats when I found out. If you're worried, go to the doctor, the sooner you're diagnosed the better. Hope this helps
For me it just didn't feel like the normal flu though...but I think this was pyschological...I knew I had put myself at risk recently so I think I was smart enough to realize that something was up even though at the time I had no idea what ARS was. ARS rangs from mild to pretty severe in some cases...mine was fairly mild. I went to the doctor and got a viral load test and thats when I found out. If you're worried, go to the doctor, the sooner you're diagnosed the better. Hope this helps
I had systems of Legonella, but the test results were way off and that's when they think I was infected. Alan Chiras.
babybodybuilder2.5
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For me .....I had a cough for several month. As well as night sweats...I knew, but did not get tested until I was deathly sick...I had PCP...At that time I did not even know what it was called. Went to the doctor ...not to get tested, but to see what was wrong with me. Thought it was a sever case of the flu...boy was I wrong. He recommend an AIDS test...I knew the results before they came back...spent the next 6 weeks in the hospital, with many complication.....bla bla bla....the rest is my history with AIDS
Upon actual seroconversion? Not that I know of. Then again, apparently I also got hepatitis at one point and never got any symptoms either (and actually, there was no pain with my shingles either).
I admit, when I hear people got tested because "they got the flu/fever" it always sounds a little suspicious to me, since no one has ever stated how seroconversion flu has different symptoms than a normal flu. But maybe someone can let me know if it was different.
I admit, when I hear people got tested because "they got the flu/fever" it always sounds a little suspicious to me, since no one has ever stated how seroconversion flu has different symptoms than a normal flu. But maybe someone can let me know if it was different.
ihap said:
Ugh! Night sweats can be awful. After I tested positive, I began getting awful ones that soaked the bed. Only 1 or 2 nights in 6 years since starting meds though.
babybodybuilder2.5 said:For me .....I had a cough for several month. As well as night sweats...I knew, but did not get tested until I was deathly sick...I had PCP...At that time I did not even know what it was called. Went to the doctor ...not to get tested, but to see what was wrong with me. Thought it was a sever case of the flu...boy was I wrong. He recommend an AIDS test...I knew the results before they came back...spent the next 6 weeks in the hospital, with many complication.....bla bla bla....the rest is my history with AIDS
I'm afraid that I'm in the exact same boat as BBB. And I should have known better having worked in the field for several years before that. I WAS IN DEEP DENIAL. Not one of the proudest moments in my life. Alan Chiras.
I had a massive loss of appitite, dizzyness and muscle stiffness, also sweats.
When I first tested positive they said it was an initial reaction and i must of contracted it recently, after they did my CD4 they said it looks like I have had HIV for over 5 years. This would seem likly as back then I was taking risks with needles.
I still dont know for sure if the illness that prompted my test was HIV related but I imagain so, it's just taking 5 years to have any noticible affect on me.
When I first tested positive they said it was an initial reaction and i must of contracted it recently, after they did my CD4 they said it looks like I have had HIV for over 5 years. This would seem likly as back then I was taking risks with needles.
I still dont know for sure if the illness that prompted my test was HIV related but I imagain so, it's just taking 5 years to have any noticible affect on me.
Muskelpumpe
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Is there anything in a standard CBC/Chemistry Profile blood test that could help indicate a diagnosis one way or the other? For example, would WBC be way off or is it possible to be relatively normal either way?
Tatyana
Elite Mentor
This is by no means diagnostic, but I have seen the blood work of quite a few patients with HIV from the GUMed clinic:
- elevated total protein and/or globulin
- elevated CRP
- elevated or low white cell count, in particular leucocytes
- people with HIV may also have a paraprotein/M-protein present on serum protein electrophoresis
It really depends on the stage of infection, if it is early days, your immune system will be responding and it is more likely things will be elevated, later on in infection, decreased.
If you are concerned, get a test at an anonymous clinic.
It is adviseable to wait till three months post exposure otherwise you may have a false negative test.
