Sorry to be back, been worried recently again about my petechiae and decided to ask a question. I've read on this forum and online that low platelets are one of the most common initial signs of ARS. Weeks after my exposure with the csw which I described previously, I developed petechiae (which are tiny red blood spots) in my palms and on my feet. The most common cause of petechiae is low platelets, which is why I still worry about HIV. I have NEVER had this symptom before the exposure. These tiny blood spots only appeared RIGHT AFTER my exposure (about 4 weeks after). So, I find it suspicious that it occurred in the same time frame as ARS which was weeks after my exposure. To this day, I still have petechiae in the same areas. There is no other explanation that makes sense to me as to why I developed this symptom other than that exposure since I got it right after the exposure. Does this symptom not suggest or give suspicion on HIV?

*Sigh*

"Please note the forum rule against repeated anxiety driven questions by the same users. This being your seventh [now the eighth!] about your exposure 4 years ago and concerns about HIV, it must be your last on those topics; future ones will be deleted without reply and without refund of the posting fee. This policy is based on compassion, not criticism, and is designed to reduce temptations to keep paying for questions with obvious answers; because experience shows that continued answers tends to simply prolong such anxieties, when the real answer normally should be professional counseling; and because such questions have little educational value for other users, one of the forum's main purposes."

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