Symptoms One Year After Exposure

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Question on risk of exposure and relevance of symptoms

Hey Dr. Bob!I actually wrote to you many years ago with a question regarding an encounter I had... and thought I had learned my lesson with a big scare and negative test (1 year). However, I've managed to scare myself again... and I would...

Response from Robert J. Frascino, M.D.

The Robert James Frascino AIDS Foundation

Hello Scared and Can't Learn a Lesson,Welcome back to the forum!I agree your HIV-acquisition risk is extremely low at best.Six weeks would be well beyond the usual two-three week period when the symptoms of acute retroviral syndrome (ARS)... Read more »

Time between exposure and ARS symptoms

Hi Doc,I don't want to waste time or space so will cut this short. I had protected sex about a... Read more »

Response from Robert J. Frascino, M.D. »

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... Read more »

Response from Michael Shernoff, M.S.W. »

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all the right symptoms, but minimal exposure

Posted by es2011, 1 Reply

hello! I'm a 23 year old male in a service program in south america.

Thanks for reading my entry. Like most people on this forum I'm worried sick that I've contracted HIV. I've basically convinced myself that I already have, but before I die from... 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 »

One exposure = seroconvertion

Posted by Anonymous, 2 Replies

Hi everybody.
I had 1 unprotected anal exposure to a person at high risk. There was no ejac. (but probably precum) but later he fingered and there might be some on his finger. It is true that it is reasonable I should consider him as positive in... Read more »

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