I'm a 24 male HIV+ I just found out about 7 months ago and the only reason why is because my fiance was pregnant, since i got a test back in mid-late 2006 and was negative never had a reason to think I had it. when i found out my CD4 was 366 and VL 20,000 I was gonna start meds but a bunch of stuff came in the way to make it short. and then 4 months passed and i got my blood tested again and my cd4 doubled about to 607 and VL dropped to 13,000. the doctors were kinda stunned by that for some reason. but my real question is for about the last 2 years ever since christmas of 2006 i've never been the same. the chronic pain has taking over my life and the quality of it. what happened was i was hospitlized with a viral illiness which included me being admitted to the hospital with over 104 temp and weight loss from 148 to 120ish couldn't keep liquids or solids down. I had small red bumps all over that did not itch and the doctors diagonsed me just with a viral illness. if that was the time i was infected or what not I guess basically what I'm asking is two parted.... could the HIV or whatever happened there distroyed something in my body to where I have all this chronic pain, from the tip of my toes to the top of my head. from throbbing aching tingling stabbing and also horrible headaches. I wish i could describe the pain better but pretty much having my body in a big huge clamp getting twisted all day and then not being able to sleep and having to do it all over agian. and if you dont' think it could have happened then. could this be related anyway to HIV? even if you don't see it much i guess it this possible. because no doctor seems to be able to figure it out or pin point it.

Your symptoms are unusual for HIV infection itself to be causing them. It's hard to speculate, as your symptoms are very nonspecific. Your current CD4 count is in the normal range and your viral load is in the low-moderate range. I assume you have had a neurologic evaluation for this. If everything checks out, then a trial on HIV meds could be in order to see if the virus is actually triggering something in your body.