Does Ear Infection Mean I Have AIDS

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HIV Is a Continuum Infection Primary Infection (or Acute Infection) Seroconversion The Asymptomatic Stage Early- and Medium-Stage HIV Symptomatic Disease Late-Stage HIV Disease (AIDS) HIV Is a Continuum Most of us are used to thinking of disease in very simple terms: if you feel sick, you are sick; if you feel healthy, you are healthy. However, because HIV may begin causing subtle changes in the immune system long before an infected...

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Ear infections

I am just writing since I have had AIDS since 1989 and have a question. I have had to stop seeing my doctor and stop taking medicine since one I can't afford it anymore and two I have been having problems here with Doctors and can't...

Response from Judith Feinberg, M.D.

University of Cincinnati, College of Medicine

I can't tell what you have from your dsescription, and I am not sure that it is HIV-associated. I recommend that you see an ENT (ear/nose & throat) doctor or an infectious diseases specialist to get a definitive diagnosis and treatment.... Read more »

VL results as means of determining infection date

Dr H: I know that it is impossible to pin-point the exact infection date of HIV unless one knows for sure of the infection means, like a transfusion, etc., but is it PLAUSABLE to estimate the length of infection in months/years based on VL and...

Response from Mark Holodniy, M.D., F.A.C.P., C.I.C.

Stanford University, School of Medicine

It sounds like the first HIV test you had was in 7/98. The episode in 11/97 could well be an acute retroviral syndrome, although it sounds like you did not have an HIV test during that hospitalization. Two to four weeks before that could have been... Read more »

FOLLOW UP to-VL as means of determining infection date (1/8).

Dr Mark: Thanks for your answer. Now, putting all HIV etiology aside, have you personally ever come across a documented, recently-infected individual with a CD4 cont such as mine, in the high 300's; or are the normal counts of 800 to 1.200...

Response from Mark Holodniy, M.D., F.A.C.P., C.I.C.

Stanford University, School of Medicine

No, I have seen cases such as yours. In our recently published series of about 30 cases, there were a couple of people who within a couple weeks of infection had a CD4 count in the 300s.MH... Read more »

What exactly do "swollen glands" mean? How soon after a new HIV infection can swollen glands appear?

There is a lot of talk about how "swollen glands" are common in HIV'ers at ANY time during infection, even during the asymptomatic period and AFTER acute retroviral syndrome . Is this true?Does this mean that it is possible or...

Response from Bruce Dezube, M.D.

Harvard Medical School

I've addressed the issue of lymph nodes on MANY recent responses so I don't want to repeat all the response here.I'll address your two questions1) How soon after HIV infection can swollen nodes appear? Lymph nodes can swell very soon... Read more »

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I would like this not to be true but... it is, This people may have lied to the docs... But they were in fact positive, long time before the antibodies response. What I'm trying is to make you people understand that somebody is playing with our... Read more »

ARS symptoms means virus can be detected?

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Hi...If you have ARS symptoms two weeks after an unsafe episode and these symptoms are actually a sign of HIV infection, will the PCR test be able to detect the presence of HIV in that short time frame. After all, the symptoms of fighting the... Read more »

The chance of being infected.

Posted by Anonymous, 1 Reply

Itching Rash on trunk mainly, extended to arms, thigh and even the neck. Peak at week 2.
Then, night sweating for a few days accompanied by sleep disturbance (ie. wake up at the specific interval at mid-night till even now)
Then, severe sore throat... Read more »

Lymph Node Behind Ear

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I had receptive unprotected vaginal sex 5 years ago and now I am having major symptoms. I had a toenail infection a few months ago, and last week I developed a really painful red swollen lump on the back of my ear. A few days later it stopped... Read more »

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