[Question #12713] Im begging you please don’t delete - HIV
5 months ago
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Hi doctors, please do not delete this question - I have already mentioned that I acknowledge my anxiety and am on treatment for it. I also speak Spanish but English hence a follow up to my question. I promise, promise that this will be the last post.
As I said in my last question, I intensely French-kissed kissed with a random guy (I am also a male) exactly 9 days ago, 3 days AFTER a tooth extraction and whilst NOT being on PrEP. He said he had protected sex 30 days prior in the way of a threesome and, unprotected with his partner 3 days before our kiss. Today I am truly truly feeling under weather. I have fever, headache, joint pain (shoulders knees and feet), feel super tired, just had diahorrea, and yesterday I had pain in the side of my throat which continues.
I know Dr Hook said kissing is know risk but I wanted to please, please ensure that I was NOT on PrEP when I kissed this random plus the tooth extraction was massive.
I also started PrEP one week ago, that is, 3 days AFTER the kiss. I stopped this 2 days ago.
Can this be HIV?
I stopped PrEP but I only took it for 5 days, when would a test be conclusive?
At 8 days, can HIV/ARS symptoms appear?
Thank you as ever and trust me when I said that I am indeed having all this symptoms!
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H. Hunter Handsfield, MD
5 months ago
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I'm sorry, but this is the same exposure and symptoms described in your just closed discussion with Dr. Hook. It is apparent you have been seeing a doctor or clinic experienced in HIV and its treatment. Discuss this with them. And go back and re-read Dr. Hook's replies to your two previous quesitons.
This forum cannot help you further. We do not accept repeated anxiety-driven quesions on the same topic or exposure and this is your seventh similar quesiton, your third in a month. You have been resistant to our reasoned, science based evluations and advice. Future questions along these lines will receive no reply and the posting fee will not be refunded. This policy is based on compassion, not criticism, and is intended to reduce temptation to keep paying for questios with the same obvious answers. In addition, experience shows that continued answers tend to prolong users' anxieties rather than reducing them (there's always a "yes but" or "could I be the exception" sort of thinking). Finally, such questions have linited educational value for other users, one of the forum's main purpose. Thanks for you understandig. Good luck and best wishes.
---HHH, MD