A question - HIV Prevention Message Board

01-13-2003, 09:24 AM

Babyshan, you said that the doctor said that lymph nodes will become enlarged with no other symptoms. Well I was rubbing my neck and under my chin i felt a little bump. The more I rubbed the bigger it got until finally it was sore. When I quit touching it, it went down in a few days. Also when I feel around in my neck I can feel a few lymph nodes, one on the side of my neck, one at the bottom and on under my chin. They are not sore and they move when I touch them. Does this sound like what you were talking about? I can not feel any under my arms. I can feel some bumps around my groin area, but they are small like the ones in my neck.

01-13-2003, 11:21 PM

No, sometimes when we have infections our lymph nodes get larger and in a few cases they never go down. I have one on the back of my neck that never went back down, it is squishy and I can move it aound but it is not sore. My mom has near her ear that does the same. Once and a while if we are stressed or coming down with a cold it will swell up, but for the most part it is just chillin there. We have both had our checked out and the docs were not concerned as long as it is not permanently swollen their is no need to worry. I wouldnt worry about soemthing that is just kinda lingering there. Have it checked to be sure but I am pretty confident it is not HIV related. I forgot to emntion one thing about the swollen glands that I should have mentioned, besides them not really accompanying anything major, they do often come witha fever when they are infectious related. Otherwise, they are just your bodys normal reaction to the many iriitants it comes in contact with everyday.

01-13-2003, 11:23 PM

one more thing, you answered yuor own ?, the only reason that it swelled and got sore was because you were irritating it, you said yuorself it went down after you stopped touching it.

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01-14-2003, 06:03 AM

When I went to the doc my temp was 99 degrees. He said that they do not even count that as a fever. I was tested about 4 1/2 months after my exposure. I gave unprotected oral sex to a female. I had brushed my teeth about an hour after I did that too. The test came back negative. My doc said I could test after a year if I wanted to.

01-14-2003, 10:39 AM

trust me johnblue, your absolutely fine!!!, the doc is right they really dont count that as having a fever, alot of these websites will tell yuo that a lowgrade fever is a sign, however, AIDS is a new disese and if their theory is correct and the asymptomatic period lasts 8-10 years on average w/out meds then I am sure most of the symptoms ppl attribute to AIDS are just symptoms that normal ppl get everyday.It would make sense considering that their imune systems have yet to be compromised by the disease early on. Alot of ppl worry because the media makes you worry and not really because they have valid reaosn to. Most ppl are negative, and those that are positive nine out of ten times are in a high risk group, or sleep with someone who is. This is not a disease of the majortiy, despite what the mass media likes to advertise. However, if they didnt ppl would prob be much more likely to sleep with anything and shoot anything for that matetr. As far as Iv drugs are concerned though, I shiver just to have routine lab work, I couldnt imagine shooting something in me. Scary thing. Good luck in your life, stop worrying about HIV