I had another encounter with the same csw same unprotected oral both ways and protected vaginal coitus. Two weeks after first encounter got hives bilateral buttcheeks very itchy took Benadryl they were gone haven't returned. Next day had one day of diarrhea not real diarrhea just very loose stools. Never had fever nor soreness of joints. My head tells me that this was a zero risk encounter for HIV but now my wife is sick upper respiratory symptoms slight fever and body aches.  I am not at 4 weeks from first encounter to take accurate test. But I am freaking out. Csw denies HIV showed me card from Health Department 2 weeks old showing negative test.

Csw did have unprotected sex w male of unknown status on October 31st

Finally, your email address apparently says a lot about what's going on here. (Don't worry, only the moderators see that, not web administrators or forum users.) Perhaps my main advice is that you should be getting counseling, if you aren't yet doing so. But as I said last time, you're going about your CSW adventures with good attention to sexual safety. In any case, you should not expect to come to this forum for reassurance for every exposure or symptoms that make you nervous. Repetative, anxiety driven questions are not permitted, and eventually such questions are deleted without reply and without refund. It's a policy designed both to protect users from themselves (not tempted to spend good money to keep hearing the same answers) and because such questions have limited educational value for other readers, one of the main purposes of the forum.---

I see a lot of HIV where I work as you can imagine, which doesn't help.   I did see a Dr, he wasn't worried, but wrote me a script for blood work for which I am waiting out the window.  I only opened a new thread b/c of the hives which are out of the ordinary for me and then the wife's symptoms (I had unprotected with her several times right after my adventures, so the timeline is right).  as you can see from my screen name I am not your typical "kook"  but I guess anxiety can affect anyone.    Please keep this thread open and I will return with the good news in a week or two and then I'll get out of your hair and think about my choices and maybe get help for my proclivities.  

From your writing and questions, I always had confidence you are intelligent and insightful, definitely not a kook. But indeed anxiety is universal, affecting everyone from time to time and some people all the time.---

I gave blood for my tests today however I started azithromycin 250 bid yesterday (so I've taken 2 doses biD 250) I don't know when my results will be in but my question is let's say I was infected with syphilis, chlamydia , or gonorrhea- will that 2 dose of 250 be enough to show a clean test or would that not be enough or too soon to mask it? I only need to know in case my wife was infected. would i still test positive if infected with one day of zpack yesterday?

*Sigh*---

The z pack was for upper respiratory symptoms and cough not  any presumed vd. I have asthma and can't play around when it comes to respiratory infection .  I only wanted to know if it would queer my tests for the reasons explained.  If you keep my thread open I'll post my results. thanks again Doc.

Thanks for clarifying. Of course it was reasonable to take azithromycin in that circumstance. How long has it been since you took 500 mg AZM? If within a day or two, take another 500 mg, total 1 g. Or if more than a few days ago, take a 1 g dose now. The extra treatment won't hurt your asthma and would be no less effective in respiratory prophylaxis, so no harm on that front. In the exceedingly unlikely chance you had acquired syphilis, 1 g is enough to abort incubating syphilis. Some syphilis strains are entirely resistant to AZM -- but at least testing will remain accurate in a few weeks, whether negative or positive.---