Are there any symptoms of HIV?

Are these symptoms of HIV?

  • i recently had protected sex. and i've been tripping hard lately about hiv. i developed some symptoms and i was wondering if anyone could like clarify if they are symptoms of acute hiv syndrome. 1 week and 2 days after the encounter i developed some swelling in my jaw, near to my ear, kinda, i'm not sure if this was a lymph node, it was painful to eat the morning i woke up with it, and it came out of nowhere over night. the next day it started going down, then a day later it was gone completely. no pain, just sensitive from where i'd been pushing with my fingers. i recall having a bad dream about hiv the night before i developed this, so i thought it might of been from grinding my teeth ( which i do a lot), however a week and 3 days after the encounter my nose started running a little bit, and then developed in to a blocked nose, which i still have 3 days later. it's weird because one nostrils blocked, it clears then the other blocks. i don't have any fever, or sweats at night, but i did start to get a sore throat. no back or stomach pains either. i'm gonna get tested this monday, but it'll still only be 2 weeks and a day after the encounter. i read somewhere the symptoms in terms of my nose running/blocked, aren't symptoms of hiv. i was just curious of someone could shed some light. i used a condom in the encounter, but the thing is, is that the girl actually said afterwards that she was hiv positive, which is why i'm so worried about these symptoms. additional info, she was on top of me, and at times the whole condom was inside her vagina, could vaginal fluid of slipped under the condom? any information would be appreciated. as i said i'm tripping hard. cheers.

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    HIV takes a considerable time to show symptoms - not three days - so what you're describing is something else. I doubt whether the spam merchant knows much about it either !

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I work in health care. You are inquiring about symptoms, but HIV is not diagnosed based upon symptoms. The only way to diagnosis this is to get tested, which I highly recommend. Be open and honest with your physician and tell him/her about your recent encounter. However, you can't test HIV positive for a least 3 months after the encounter. It has to do with your body creating anitbodies against the virus. Bottom line... GET TESTED. Also, it is a federal offense to have sex with someone while HIV positive WITHOUT informing the other person. This person told you after the fact??? That's a crime. Who would do that kind of thing?

Anonymous

This sounds more like you got a sinus infection or something similar that caused all your symptoms. The symptoms people get right after HIV infection are pretty vague and not everyone gets them, but I don't think this really fits that well. That doesn't mean that you didn't get infected though, it's certainly possible to get sick with a random illness after infection? Vaginal fluid could have slipped under the condom, but even contact with the fluid doesn't necessarily give you HIV, it has to go through an opening/cut in your skin in order to infect you. edit- the illness that people generally get if they get noticeable symptoms after HIV infection is more like a rash, aching, fever type thing, not so much a nose/throat problem.

LORI

You would do well to to do an online search on reactions to club drugs. Type in: ecstasy – clenched jaw.

look up hiv symptoms and you will see that you don't show any signs go get tested you can be infected with no symptoms and you need to get tested every 6 months it can hide for years

jojo

HIV usually doesn't have alot of symptoms, especially early on like the first few months after you get it, possibly years. The main symptom of HIV is the diseases you catch that you wouldn't catch with a normal immune system. It's possible you just have a coincidental cold. Funny story that happened to me was a herpes scare, because I had just gotten done giving oral sex to this guy, and later that day I felt this weird blister on the inside of my cheek, that stung. So i went to the ER lol because I was trippin, and they told me the blisters started out as a symptom of a common virus that was going around that I had, not an STD, just sort of like the flu, and that while I was engaging in oral sex the inside of my cheek being sucked in between my teeth (cus when you make the sucking face that's what happens) had made the blisters that were already there that I didn't know about worse. Sometimes weird coincidences just happen, and she should have told you before you had sex that she was HIV positive, that's bullshit and I'd be pissed the **** off. But condoms are pretty effective against HIV, I'm willing to wager that you're fine.

ismoke

It is a known medical fact that infection can be carried through several modes of transmission available to the disease by the orifices and membranes of the body. Most often than not, the least likely discussed and normally avoided by many people understands the reality of a sexually transmitted disease, its mode of entry and how to manage it. In this age, the prevalence of sexually transmitted disease is at its peak, yet there are still a lot of taboos regarding seeking treatment and learning about STD symptoms and getting STD testing at private STD testing centers and clinics. A viral, fungal or bacterial infection can be transmitted via intimate contact. Of course there may be several forms of infection which can be transmitted via genital contact; the definition of sexually transmitted disease is isolated to conditions that are dependent on sexual contact for its transmission and propagation. Venereal disease is a terminology of similar definition but is typically associated with five generally acknowledged diseases. STD or Sexually transmitted diseases can also be caught non-sexually but for most adult infection cases, the premature infection brought about by contamination through an intermediary catalyst such as towels, toilet seats or bathing facilities is virtually nonexistent. The medical definition of an STD limits it to a description of more than a cluster of 20 various infections brought about by the exchange of exudates, or internal fluids such as blood, semen and via direct bodily contact with affected carriers of STD’s. The onset of adolescence is an opportune time where several health risk behaviors are established and can be a window for exposure to a handful of sexually transmitted infections. Health compromising practices during the adolescent stages increase the rate of sexually transmitted disease transmission dramatically. Various instances such as unsafe sexual intercourse, alcohol and prohibited drugs experimentation are considered normative behavior for adolescents. Of course these acts result as a health risk and promote the acquisition of sexually transmitted disease. This results in several people in these demographic exhibiting STD symptoms early on and on multiple occasions.

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