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I gained a lot of reassurance reading this board over the last week and I just wanted to post my own experience to hopefully ease the minds of other people who, like me, found this place out of fear over symptoms they were experiencing.

I live a very promiscuous heterosexual lifestyle. I am normally careful in my practices but 7 weeks ago I had unprotected vaginal and anal sex with a woman whom I also know to be rather promiscuous. She claims to be tested and clean, but I've never seen test results.

Three weeks after our encounter I developed a sore throat, cough, and sinus congestion. I thought nothing of it at first- figured it was just a summer cold, but it persisted with no improvement for two weeks and I began to wonder. At the beginning of the third week of the cold I had restless sleep due to night sweats and awoke experiencing extreme lethargy and loss of appetite- and found my tonsils swollen and splotchy with white spots. This is when I started internet searching for symptoms and when I read the common symptoms of Acute HIV Infection my blood ran cold. I went to a doctor that day, and he was confident I had something bacterial, so prescribed antibiotics. Within two days my symptoms were gone, but I could not kick the feeling that I had become infected with HIV, purely based on the timing of my "cold" and the specific symptoms I experienced.

I stopped having sex with anyone, but became extremely worried that I might have infected my two partners with whom I do normally have unprotected sex, as your ability to give HIV to others is supposedly significantly greater during the acute infection period.

I immediately had an OraQuick antibody test (negative), but wasn't satisfied with that, so I got an HIV DNA test as well. $300 and several panic-filled days later I now have conclusive proof that I'm not infected.

What did I really have? I'm guessing it started out with a (viral) cold and then I developed some kind of bacterial infection. I also experienced a severe over-active imagination.

I'm posting this just as further evidence that you can have all the symptoms of early HIV infection but still have something completely benign. DO get tested if you suspect infection, even if it's unlikely, but try to remember that HIV is kind of difficult to get.View Thread

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I am a woman, 58 years old, got out of a 12 yr. relationship 3 yrs. ago and am now back in the dating. I was...

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What steps to take if you test positive?

Hello community, Dan, Gail and myself often answer questions around the potential risk...

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Hello community,

Dan, Gail and myself often answer questions around the potential risk of different exposures for those of you who are HIV negative - but I want to take a minute to discuss with you some steps to take if you do test positive or have tested positive in the past and don't know what to do? Here are a few tips for you:

1. First, KNOW that an HIV diagnosis IS NOT a death sentence! Most people testing positive today can expect a productive life similar to when you get diagnosed with diabetes or high blood pressure and have to take medications.

2. Talk to someone about it - either a person in your life you trust or an online community (www.poz.com , www.tpan.com ) - you'll be amazed at how talking with people who have been through it can help you through a tough time.

3. Go see a physician - it can be your primary care physician or an Infectious Disease or HIV specialist (www.aahivm.org ). Be responsible and get yourself checked out from head to toe to see if you need medications and other services immediately or can wait. There are close to 30 medications that are effective in slowing down the virus and the infectious and inflammation complications of being positive, so educate yourself and see what meds may be right for you.

4. Address your mental health - just as important as getting the physical checked out is taking care of the psychological. If you are dealing with depression or anxiety either before or after the diagnosis, don't ignore this aspect of your health... its crucial to you moving forward! Family, friends, pastors, spirituality, therapists, psychologists/psychiatrists... whatever works for you, just don't ignore it!

5. Communicate with your sexual partners - while its true you don't have to tell the whole world about testing positive, it is your responsibility to let sexual and romantic partners know. Many of us put ourselves at risk for HIV because we assume someone is negative, and many people adopt a "Don't ask, Don't tell" approach to talking about HIV. Be strong and honest - if a person runs or judges you because you are positive, they probably weren't good for you in the first place...

As always, take care of you first people, whether you are positive or negative... defeating this disease depends on it!!!

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