how quick do hiv symptoms show up? i have heard several different answers. i recieved oral sex and 5 days later i had a sore throat and now a loss of appetite. i realize i have serious issues when it comes to worrying and i hope to talk with someone about it. now i have to wait three months to test again. its ridiculous how worried i get over things. yet i continue to put myself at risk. :(

how quick do hiv symptoms show up? i have heard several different answers. i recieved oral sex and 5 days later i had a sore throat and now a loss of appetite. i realize i have serious issues when it comes to worrying and i hope to talk with someone about it. now i have to wait three months to test again. its ridiculous how worried i get over things. yet i continue to put myself at risk. :(

Don't worry dude, you're not alone. After my last HIV test, I told myself I would never put myself in another situation like this again, yet, here I am, worried as heck again after a sticky situation I put myself in two weeks ago. Anyway, receptive oral sex carries an EXTREMELY low risk for HIV. For the most part, he/she would have to be profusely bleeding on you for you to get HIV this way. It is also highly unlikely that you would experience ARS symptoms 5 days after exposure...it usually takes 2-4 weeks. Anyway, take care...and if it will put your mind at ease, get tested at 3 months.

Don't worry dude, you're not alone. After my last HIV test, I told myself I would never put myself in another situation like this again, yet, here I am, worried as heck again after a sticky situation I put myself in two weeks ago. Anyway, receptive oral sex carries an EXTREMELY low risk for HIV. For the most part, he/she would have to be profusely bleeding on you for you to get HIV this way. It is also highly unlikely that you would experience ARS symptoms 5 days after exposure...it usually takes 2-4 weeks. Anyway, take care...and if it will put your mind at ease, get tested at 3 months.


thanks for your help, i really appreciate it. im glad im not alone. you take care too.

i just wonder why people can possibly think that living a normal life, a normal sex life, oral sex, fingering, fore play, making out protected vaginal or even anal sex marks that person for certain hardship. if you are this afraid of something then i don't think you should be doing it. millions uopn millions of people have a sex life. some make choices that they wish they hadn't, but even then that doesn't mean they caught anything from it. they may just have a guilty conscience. no one wants to catch HIV,l but think about the logic of what you are talking about. do you think president clinton was curled up in a fetal position after he got a hummer from monica? NO I THINK NOT. i really do hope you get help for this as there is no reason it should be controlling you like this. you did not get HIV from oral sex. hope you are doing better.

i just wonder why people can possibly think that living a normal life, a normal sex life, oral sex, fingering, fore play, making out protected vaginal or even anal sex marks that person for certain hardship. if you are this afraid of something then i don't think you should be doing it. millions uopn millions of people have a sex life. some make choices that they wish they hadn't, but even then that doesn't mean they caught anything from it. they may just have a guilty conscience. no one wants to catch HIV,l but think about the logic of what you are talking about. do you think president clinton was curled up in a fetal position after he got a hummer from monica? NO I THINK NOT. i really do hope you get help for this as there is no reason it should be controlling you like this. you did not get HIV from oral sex. hope you are doing better.


maybe it is a guilty conscious. it upsets me that i get this way. it wasnt always like this when i had sex. so hopefully i can talk to someone and get rid of this phobia i have.

redeem, As you see i have been on this board having a OCD issue about wether or not i got hiv or hepatitis from a needles stick that was in a box of new needles but didnt have a cap on it, and my chances are very low from what i have heard and been told. But i still get freaked out and let some things control my mind for days and weeks at a time, i am just gonna try to relax and call and see if i can get a hep.test and hiv, even though i looked at all the residents charts and they isnt anything about and infectious disease, So i can relate to how you are worried even if your chances are low, i always think i will be that 1 in a million it happens too. I would suggest that you just be very careful in the future with sex.
take care
michelle