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Possible Exposure
#252282 - 09/27/10 11:10 AM
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Hi everyone,
In June of this year I recieved unprotected oral and vaginal sex from a girl while in the Phillipines. The vaginal sex lasted less than thirty seconds before I realized what I was doing and stopped. The girl later told me she was a "pick-up girl" so I assume that means prostitute.
About 2 days after the encounter I came down with the worst head cold of my life that lasted about a week. After the cold went away I had a cough that remained for the next month and a half.
For some reason I never considered the possibility of HIV infection until the beginning of August, at which point I began researching symptoms. Since then my mind has never been at rest.
Around the 1st of September I noticed a painful lump in my perianal area, at first I thought this was an ingrown hair, but it turned out not to be. The lump was maybe half the size of a jelly bean and stopped hurting after about 2 days and gradually shrank and eventually went away just last week.
For nearly the past two weeks I've been having an intermittent, dull pain under my right armpit, but no visible lumps of any kind.
This past week I noticed a red rash about the size of a nickel on the upper, back of my thigh, this rash is very difficult to see without taking a mirror and really looking, so I have no idea how long it's been there.
This morning I noticed what feels to be a lump about the size of a quarter on the right side of my neck, you can plainly see it when I bend my neck to the left.
I'm scheduled to be tested at a lab tomorrow via justgettested.com but for the past few weeks I've been a complete mental wreck, the possibility of having HIV is on my mind from the moment I wake until I'm finally able to go to sleep at night, whenever I'm not comletely engaged in something, this is the only thought on my mind.
Not sure if I should mention this or not, but the worst part of all this to me is that I'm married. The whole episode in the Philippines was so out of character for me, I never imagined I would do something like that and am still trying to figure out why I let it happen.
Just wondering if anyone has any thoughts on my situation or not. Is it possible to start developing symptoms (lump in neck) after 3 months of possible exposure?
Thanks.
Scott
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OK good news and bad news buddy Its like this you did have unprotected sex so you are at risk for HIV and other STD's But the good news is since it has been 3 months since the encounter you can test for HIV right now and be sure of your results I would say it is probably stress and guilt (you might want to come clean with you wife and dont have any unprotected sex till you know) but I will tell you symptoms mean nothing and what you described does not sound like ARS I mean how closely did you look at yourself before you got scared? you could be noticing things you have had all along and just never noticed befor. good luck and go get a test I bet it will be negative and you could let this all go good luck
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Thank you for the reply. And you're right, I have been paying closer to attention to my body, so maybe some of these things could have always been there, I hope at least.
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