Night Sweats During Seroconversion

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do night sweats continue post seroconversion?

are night sweats an occasional symptom also experienced during the course of the disease or are they solely a manifestation during the seroconversion period ? thank you ...

Response from Robert J. Frascino, M.D.

The Robert James Frascino AIDS Foundation

Hi,They can occur occasionally throughout the course of the disease. If there are persistent and severe, the person should be evaluated for a possible intercurrent or opportunistic infection.Dr. Bob... Read more »

Night sweats....

Doc. Boyle,Thank-you for the great service you provide for people like myself. I cannot begin to... Read more »

Response from Keith Henry, M.D. »

Night sweats...

Thank-you for the great service you provide for people like myself. I cannot begin to explain how... Read more »

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The "[a]bsence of all of current cough, fever, night sweats, and weight loss can identify a subset of people living with HIV who have a very low probability of having TB disease," write the authors of a PLoS Medicine study that used individual... Read more »

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The Impact of Sex Partners' HIV Status on HIV Seroconversion in a Prospective Cohort of Injection Drug Users

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Headaches, Night Sweats & Muscle/Joint Pain

Posted by Client9, 2 Replies

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Clear up the sweating/night sweats issue!!!

Posted by Anonymous, 2 Replies

I had what I consider "night sweats"....Approximately 10-12 days after "exposure". They lasted may 4 nights or so, haven't had trouble since. Woke up sweating at night, not DRENCHED...just kinda sticky sweaty on my shoulders, forehead and neck.

No... Read more »

Testing During Initial Symptoms/Seroconversion

Posted by une_fille, 1 Reply

I thought I read that if you have an ELISA test during initial symptoms, you are in the process of seroconverting and the anitbodies will not show up. So if I have been having symptoms since Week 2 and it is now Week 6 (the symtpoms have varied... Read more »

seroconversion ?

Posted by Anonymous

How dramatic is the onset.. Are we talking mild like flu symptoms or something much more intense than just a mild fever and sore throat. Is there any one symptom that almost everyone gets.. Night sweats, high high fever and so on ?

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