[Question #8986] Back again, fighting severe depression and stress.
37 months ago
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Hi, I know you have given me advice and told me to see an ID doctor about my concerns and I am awaiting a referral from my primary doctor. I am still struggling immensely and have been in such a tormenting place lately I really could use some more scientific reassurance. I am still struggling today with persistent lymph nodes, thrush (mild, but it’s there none the less) and i have developed a rash that I am sure is Pitraysis lichenoids (awaiting dermatologist appointment), which can be connected to viruses, drugs, etc. One of the viruses being HIV. I am utterly terrified. I had some neurological numbness/weakness symptoms, some shortness of breath at times (it comes and goes), nail changes, occasional canker sores, and some very small petechial rashes. On top of this, a few months ago I had flu like symptoms (so mild I did not put 2 and 2 together until reading an article about HIV) 3 weeks after sex with a new partner. I developed BV after this encounter. This partner sent me proof from Quest labs of a negative 4th generation, blood from a vein laboratory test 56 days (8 weeks) after OUR encounter (or what would have been 10 weeks after his previous sexual contact that was before me) as well as negative results for everything including hep A,B, and C BUT HSV1 was active/positive. He is a heterosexual as far as i know but is a single man and has had many female sexual contacts. At 14 weeks (100 days) after our encounter, I tested negative with a blood from a vein, hospital laboratory performed 3rd generation antibodies test. His most current ex girlfriend has been in contact with me, and she says she has tested hiv negative 3 months after meeting him as well. (I know this is somewhat irrelevant)
Doctor, with my list of symptoms, and negative test results on both sides, do you think these symptoms could be due to something else, as I have started numerous medications since the lymph nodes and pitraysis licheonides rash symptoms arose. Or do youCould it be cancer?
37 months ago
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37 months ago
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37 months ago
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H. Hunter Handsfield, MD
37 months ago
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