Are Shoulder Back Pain Headache Hiv Symptoms

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Neck Shoulder and Back Soreness and pain

I have been taking acyclovir for about 2 years. I have been taking trizivir for about 10 months now. In the begining I had nausea and diarrhea. That passed after a few weeks. Through out the past 10 months I have had occasional and brief pains in...

Response from Keith Henry, M.D.

University of Minnesota, School of Medicine

The timing of your symptoms would make it seem unusual for one of the compoments of Trizivir +/- acyclovir to be directly involved. I assume your kidney function is OK and that you have no evidence of myopathy (such as muscle tenderness or elevated... Read more »

upper back pain...HIV symptom??

(1)im 22. 5'11.. 130 lbs..22 yrs old. after i had unsafe sex w/ a woman. the following day i... Read more »

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MUSCLE PAIN IN SHOULDERS

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I need help desperately. I don't know what is going on with my body. Sometimes with HIV you can gauge yourself and see if things are going your way, sometimes you can't. I can't figure it out. I have been experiencing bad headaches in the last 2... Read more »

HIV Symptoms does not indicate HIV Infection

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I wanted to share briefly with everyone that just because you may have symptoms of HIV does not necessarily mean that you are HIV positive.

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