Am I ok??? - HIV Prevention Message Board

01-14-2003, 08:15 AM

Dear new friends,

Here is my story. In March/April of 2001, I did some stupid things. I had sex with three different women during that span. In March I had protected sex and performed unprotected oral sex on girl one. A few weeks later I had unprotected sex and performed unprotected oral sex on her. The third and last girl in April I had protected sex and unprotected oral sex. I had a achy feeling and sweated a little one night. The next day I felt tired. ONly two days after that I was fine. Then I met a great girl and really care for her. I know that she is not HIV positive. She has been tested and does not sleep around. I finally got the nerve to test. My test came back negative. I tested at the end of August. It was about 18-20 weeks after my last exposure. Can we get married and have babies? Am I ok? I am freaking out everyday. I worry that my sister may have used my razor and got hiv. She is pregnant. I have been tested but worry the test was wrong, or I didn;t wait long enough. Please help!!!!!! I am thinking of this everyday. I am in counsling but I am still worried. Am I ok?

01-14-2003, 10:29 AM

Your are fine, those symptoms do not at all coincide with ARS. You do not have Hiv, your test at 18-20 weeks was totally conclusive, 3 months is actually satisfactory enough. As for the razor blade thing, HIV is not that easy to catch, it doesnt survive out in the air that well, even if you have unprotected vaginal sex with someone who is positive the odds are in your favor that you will still be negative, as the virus is not quite strong in terms of transmission. I dont think there have been many documented cases of transmission from a razor blade. GO on live your life and have babys

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01-21-2003, 11:34 AM

Thank you for your reply. I have been so scared. I keep thinking that in April I felt achy and bad. I do not think I had a fever but when I went to bed I felt cold so I covered up with a lot of blankets. When I awoke I had sweated, did not soak the bed but my chest and arms had sweated. I did not have a rash or lymph node swelling at the time. I did get test about 18 weeks after I felt bad. I think about 20 weeks after my exposure. I just do not know how to let go of the symptoms. I know what I had was kinda like ARS but it only lasted like 2 or 3 days. I know that I only could have ran a fever for one day. Help!

01-21-2003, 01:16 PM

hey, sweating (night sweats) occurs in late HIV stages so dont fret about it to much :0)

jag2k · 01-21-2003, 01:27 PM

Hello you all. I have a few worries to tell you all about and I hope someone with more experience and knowledge than me could give me some guidance.

My experience was like this (Hope not to be annoying). I am 24 years old. A little over a month, I went on a trip to Mexico. While there, I engaged in sexual activity with a sex-worker. I believe after the act I touched myself while removing the presv. and some of her secretions may have got in contact with my penis.

I returned to the US, and as I was driving back, I started feeling my neck nodes swelling, and pain in my groin and armpits, my neck started to feel stiff, and I satrted to worry.

Over the next 2 weeks after that my node pain got worse and my nodes on the sides of my neck could be seen although not very swollen, I started having mild fever, night sweats (not very profuse), and also loose bowel movements which at times seemed of a dark-greenish, slimish color.

I could not standit any longer and I went to the doc. I was given 10 days of antibiotic, which only seemed to make my loose bm worse. My neck nodes went down 2 weeks after that, although I can still barely feel them if I touch them. Loose bms have gotten better, although my stool still soft, once a day.

I have noticed I have a bit of dificulty eating, but I do eat well and have not lost any weight. One more thing. My eyes...I wear contacts, but recently (maybe its just my imagination) I have noted an increase in "floaters", and some blurriness at times. I feel tired although I can get up to go to work and function normally, but I seem to have a lot of dificulty sleeping, some days I sleep just a few hours...

I am waiting for the window period to pass so I can be tested (as instructed by my MD), and my doc believes I am at very low risk of being +, says that I might have a virus of some kind that will go away soon (yeah right...), I tested - for mono. I have not had significant headache, just my neck hurts when I stare at the PC screen or TV. Have not noticed any abnormal "rash" in my upper body.

For you people out there, help me out (I need and will be tested, but anxiety is killing me!) how likely you see that my symptoms may be due to ARS???

Take care and for those who have not gone through this, be safe, be smart and be happy.

[This message has been edited by jag2k (edited 01-23-2003).]