Latent Symptoms Of Hiv Exposure

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Depression and HIV

Treatment for Depression Depression can be treated with lifestyle changes, alternative therapies, and/or with medications. Many medications and therapies for depression can interfere with your HIV treatment. Your health care provider can help you select the therapy or combination of therapies most appropriate for you. Do not try to self-medicate with alcohol or illegal drugs as these can increase depression and create additional problems. ...

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does methadone activate latent hiv?

i switched to methadone last week 5mg 2x a day for pain. i also switched Atripla for boosted taz and truvada. i was researching here on the body and read that methadone activates latent HIV cells. is this true? can it help flush infected cells out...

Response from Keith Henry, M.D.

University of Minnesota, School of Medicine

I am unaware of any clinical relevance of any lab observation that methadone can activate latent HIV. Methadone can interact with many HIV drugs (such as efavirenz) leading to alterred levels of either drug (such as lower methadone levels and less... Read more »

hiv- after six months exposure to hiv+ person's fluids with many many symptoms,desparate and suicidal

Hi Micheal and thank you for being so wonderfull , supporting people and coping with this horrible disease. I want to apologise in advance for the long e-mail.I am gay a and a paranoid Jew (from your family name, I guess you know what I am talking...

Response from Michael Shernoff, M.S.W.

Psychotherapist and Author

I am sorry that you are so tortured by your current situation. But yes, you are the worried well, in terms of not having HIV. I don't know whether you have a physical illness that might be causing your symptoms or if your exceptionally high... Read more »

latent period / early symptomatic

Does it go without saying that an infected individual who one or two months after contracting the virus has an extremely low viral load will take SIGNIFICANTLY longer to develop AIDS? Is such a person also very unlikely to suffer any of the...

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

Stanford University, School of Medicine

Someone with a low or undetectable viral load after seroconversion, could still have HIV related symptoms associated with acute infection.... Read more »

Risky HIV Exposure and ARS Symptoms

Hello. I had unprotected oral and vaginal sex with a girl I just met in a bar in Eastern Europe. She claimed to be from Germany, but do not know her history at all. We started with condom, came off and kept going. Stupid yes, was drunk and not...

Response from David Wohl, M.D.

University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill

The symptoms are too quick for ARS. But perfect for syphilis. It sounds like you are getting good care. Listen to those people. DW... Read more »

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Latent seroconversion to HIV+ after 6 months

Posted by Anonymous, 1 Reply

Nov.13/01 - I am a RN, 59 yrs old, white, female, I have no other medical problems. I suffered an accidental needlestick from an aids patient on Jan. 27/00. I took the required medication for safety sake, had been testing HIV- until July 28, 2001. ... Read more »

Non Risk Exposure Gave Me Symptoms After 10 Days?

Posted by WorriedWell, 2 Replies

HI GUYS!!!
WORRIED AGAIN..IF SOME ONE CAN TELL ME .. WITH MY RISK EXPOSURE OF KISSING A FEMALE OF UNKNOWN STATUS and PUTTING A BADAID on an open wound of a female of unknown status.. IS RISKY????IF I had only couple of 1/2 inch cracks due to dryness... Read more »

Exposure And Symptoms

Posted by Anonymous, 4 Replies

My exposure was oral sex reciever with condom condom came off once she was a hooker she came down hard once also.

had every symptom and now eye floaters freaking out here what the hell is going on

first symptoms started like 2 days after anemia then... Read more »

Possible exposure and ARS symptoms questions

Posted by dot1974, 1 Reply

Hi there,

I had a potential risky exposure two and a half weeks ago. I am a gay male and another male tried to penetrate me anally. I could feel there were trying to push in (it was a little sore) but it wasn't full penetration as I'm not a... Read more »

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