factsheet<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Firstly can I congratulate on your great site and all the good you do!<\/p>\n
I\u2019m a healthy 29 year old white male from Scotland. My situation is that I had unprotected oral sex and what I think\/hope was protected (unsure because of alcohol) vaginal sex in Nigeria with a woman I met in a bar in Lagos.<\/p>\n
Testing wise I have had a 4th generation test at 5 and 10 weeks, Rapid
\nInsti tests for HIV1\/2 at 4 months and a 4th generation test at 4.5 and 6.5 months and finally another 4th generation test at 11.5 months exposure. All were negative.<\/p>\n
I\u2019ve also had a full STD screening including Hepatitis B but not Hepatitis C out to 6 months and normal blood tests at 2 months, 4 months and 1 year post exposure including an Anti-nuclear test.<\/p>\n
However since 10 weeks post exposure I\u2019ve had sore lymph areas on and off especially in my arm pits. They disappeared but return from time to time. Almost 2 years on I get a feeling of bruising over certain parts of my body and for the past 8 months I have had multiple eye floaters which have been checked by an optician nothing adverse noticed so they are unexplained.<\/p>\n
The last 2 weeks I have started to get very numb hands during then night with the numbness staying in my left thumb and possibly index finger constantly, I can still feel pain and heat. An ex of mine also developed very bad case of scaly skin on her eyelids.<\/p>\n
I also have had 3 genital wart type things and some night sweats. I get the odd very small brown\/red dot on my feet which looks like a blood blister then peels and I seem to have developed a constant case of tonsil sores on one tonsil. I\u2019ve also had 2 very bad cases of flu in the last year and I never usually got ill or have had any of these things in the past!<\/p>\n
Could these symptoms have anything to do with HIV or am I completely in the clear even taking into consideration the West Africa factor? I have always been of good health until the 10 weeks after my incident!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,22,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-hiv-testing","category-hiv-transmission"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1769"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24321,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1769\/revisions\/24321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}