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PHI Fever
#42889 - 11/03/02 09:36 PM
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I know you cannot determine you HIV status based on symptoms alone, but It seems that close to 95% of people who experience PHI do develop a fever. So is it in any way safe to say if you do not have a fever, than most likely any symptoms you may be experiencing are no associated with HIV?
Second question...for those who do experience PHI, do most of the sypmtoms occur all at once or do they come one after another possiby days to weeks after the other.
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Not experiencing fever is a good point as the PHI is defined in its classical symptoms as "flu-like".
Anyway you can not rule in/out the infection looking at it: you can't do it just considering all the constellation of symptoms that describe the syndrome, thus even less you can do it just looking at one single (and aspecific) symptom.
Maybe >96 is pretty high and, perhaps, described in old studies when the PHI was more underdiagnosed than now. A recent good study assessed the sensitivity at 80% (65-91) and the specificity at 56% (49-62).
If you were exposed, you are not exempted to go and get tested even if you can be much more confident about a negative serology.
The PHI is not so well defined to list down a time-table of symptoms. Anyway, if I remember well, the same question was already posted somewhere in the "meet the expert" session but cannot remember the answer for sure; good search!
Hope it helps.
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symptoms post exposure mean NOTHING towards an HIV diagnosis. Don't judge your HIV status with post exposure symptoms. The information you require is the results of an HIV test. Nearly everyone who perceives symptoms post exposure are NOT hiv pos.
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What does PHI stand for?
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It stands for Primary Hiv Infection.. also known as ARS and seroconversion illness
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