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Your Open Question: I'm Too Afraid To Get Tested, What Symptoms Will Tell Me I Have HIV/ AIDS?

  • I'm Too Afraid To Get Tested, What Symptoms Will Tell Me I Have HIV/ AIDS? I've had oral sex on my girlfriend several times with healing soars that had been in my mouth for months. I'm too afraid to get tested and find out if I have HIV/AIDS. I'd prefer to find out by seeing the symptoms rather than go through a traumatizing ordeal of testing positive and being told by a doctor. I never licked my soars after the sex, always drank hot mochas afterwards to kill the germs. Only twice did I not do so. I'm only18 but I'm very scared! );

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    By the time you show signs of infection, you have been HIV+ for a time and, from the time you seroconvert, have been spreading the disease yourself if you are not using full barrier precautions. You cannot survive any drink hot enough to kill the virus and, even then, it is not enough. If you are exposed to the virus, it enters your system at the time of exposure. Drinking a drink is going to do nothing, even if it was the magic HIV killer. Do you really want to risk passing on a potential death sentence to other people? Yes, people with the disease can live for a very long time these days but do you really want to give that "gift" to someone because you are unwilling to take a test? Furthermore, if you wait until you have symptoms, the retrovirus has had time to damage your body whereas, if you catch it early, this will be much less. One of the best ways to catch and transmit HIV is through broken skin and guess what those sores in your mouth are. Also, do you think sores for that long are normal? Someone else has listed some of the symptoms and I am not going to bother. You can easily google to find the full compliment.

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If she has it, you, in all likelihood, have it. Why would you have open sores in your mouth for months? Do you have a clue what it is? It could be oral herpes. And hot drinks will not kill germs. To kill any germs, it would have to be boiling, and you would have to drink it at that temperature, which is not possible without burns. Go to the doctor. Try and go from being completely brainless to having half the sense of a squirrel.

Keysha

Don't wait. Go get tested ASAP! You can live with HIV with treatment. Once you start having symptoms and getting sick its too late. Magic Johnson has had HIV for over 20 years and he is healthy. Don't die of stupidity.

navyboy

Initial onset is pretty similar to a mild cold or flu. later as the HIV virus 'viral load' increases and your T-cell count lowers you're open for other opportunistic ailments, such as (but by no means limited too) Pneumonia, shingles, septicaemia (blood poisoning), TB (tuberculosis) and many others. Onset of infection, the earliest symptoms: Symptoms of HIV in men and women include: Fever Sore throat Tiredness or lethargy Joint pain Muscle pain Swollen glands A rash Mind no one actually gets all of these symptoms at the same time. Thus they might have 3-4 of them then confuse HIV for some other thing - like the flu, or allergies, or even 'just overworked and tired'. The only way to be 100% certain is to get tested. If not at your doctors, then the more anonymous Public Health center option is available.

Athrael

You're afraid of a "positive" HIV/AIDS test, but not afraid to "assume" you may or may not have the deadly disease? It sounds like you're not mentally competent enough to care for yourself. You are irresponsible, uneducated about sex, and a danger to society.

Gratefully Me

If you don't want to do to the doctor, you can order a testing kit to be sent to you. You then send the swabs to a lab to be analyzed, and the results can be emailed to you. The results are anonymous and won't show up on your insurance or medical records without your permission. You can call the testing service for more info- 877-522-2490. If you open yourself up to sexual activity without protection, you can't be scared to find out the potential repercussions of what can come from it. Start protecting yourself, good luck.

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