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Would be grateful for any responses:

1. My ARS symptoms came on with my first night sweat on the evening of day 4 as well as some excessive sweating on day 3. Had a low grade fever (99.5) by morning of day 5. Does this seem typical?
2. My ARS symptoms include fairly severe night sweats and mild fever (99-99.8). Is this typical? Both the fever and night sweats have been intermittent but actually seem to be getting worse at 3 weeks post my first symptom.
3. The internet tells me that splenomegaly is a symptom of ARS and my whole left rib cage is very tender. That said, I can't palpate my spleen although I've never had any training in doing so.
4. I had a fairly faint (10-15 spots) of flat or slight raised pink/red rash on my upper chest and lower neck for the first 2 weeks of my ARS symptoms. It's now gone.
5. Only glands I can feel swollen are the two just under your jaw and some in my lower lip. Anybody seen lip gland swelling in ARS???? Mine is on one side and quite severe. No mouth lesions/ulcers that i can find at all. My mouth looks quite healthy except for the white coating on my tounge which I've had for years. The neck glands are markedly swollen from normal although I had been palpating them so mercilessly that I'm praying that I just irritated them in some way - they are large but painless.
6. Headaches have been very minor and only on a few occassions.
7. No sub-orbital pain. No real muscle aches. In fact, I have been vigorously exercising through this process with good stamina. However, I'm sweating much more than normal. I mean, sweating profusely in situtations where others are dry.
8. I have had a minor sore throat and "tight swallowing". However, my anxiety has been almost crippling (average of 2 hours of sleep a night for 3 weeks) and this I think has caused bigtime dry mouth which maybe is causing the throat. The throat has been kind of off/on and mild.
9. I've lost 10 pounds and have completely lost my appetite.

Bottom line to me is that this doesn't look good at all but it seems unusual the way the symptoms have actually progressed in the third week? Has anybody heard of that? Temp was 99.2 this morning and sweated each of the last 3 nights (changed shirt on two of them).

I'm petrified. Was ELISA negative at 3 weeks from last exposure (or just over two weeks from onset of my ARS symptoms). Would I seroconvert by 2 weeks post ARS onset?? Does severity or timing of ARS impact seroconversion at all??

Please help me with your thoughts. I'm really frightened. Exposure was receiving oral sex with a condom which I know is very low risk BUT, I've seen my GP and my CBC is totally normal and I do not seem to have any bacterial infections at all. It must be viral and my internet research (almost constant for 2 weeks) can't disclose anything viral which would cause the length or duration of these symptoms. I had mono years ago and there's no WBC abnormality. CMV doesn't seem to cause these symptoms? Are there other viruses which might do this and my research has not disclosed them? My GP said lymphoma would likely have shown up on the x-ray. I've got an abdominal CT scan coming which I'm sure will pick up the swollen spleen (the GP could not feel it). Sorry for the detail but this has become an obsession for me which I'm sure is quite obvious to you all.

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