here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Can stress and anxiety be the reason for symptoms that are the same as an acute HIV<\/p>\n
infection, and should I test for HIV?<\/p>\n
I had unprotected sex some 10 times with a guy who showed me a negative HIV test 4-5 days before we had sex (because of my recent paranoia, I don’t know what to believe, is telling the truth or not).<\/p>\n
Three – four weeks afterward, I had enormous stress at work and combined with the brake up with my partner, I started to feel mild cold, usually a runny nose in the morning.<\/p>\n
After I started to read for possible diagnose, I have read about all acute HIV symptoms and anxiety and stress increased 10 times as much.<\/p>\n
After approximately 5 weeks from initial sex, and after all the stress and anxiety, I constantly felt itchy skin all over my body without any red skin. Every time I think about possible HIV infection, immediately my skin starts to itch from several minutes to several days. Also, I felt some muscle aches.<\/p>\n
Also, as summer ended, the weather changed and I got 7 days ago (6-7 weeks after initial contact) I got a flu, without or with a low temperature, completely tired muscles and a headache. 4-5 days afterward the flu decreased and a mild sore throat began.<\/p>\n
Right now, almost 8 weeks passed for the initial contact, and I have aching muscles on the arm, neck and shoulders, mild sore throat and big amounts of anxiety over possible HIV infection.<\/p>\n
Could you please tell me – can the big amounts of stress and anxiety over this matter be the possible reasons for my flu and other aches? What is the possibility of an HIV infection?<\/p>\n
Do all symptoms for acute HIV come simultaneously?<\/p>\n
Can stress, anxiety and fear from an HIV infection be a reason for all of the mentioned above?<\/p>\n
Thank you for all the help.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-hiv-testing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=643"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24359,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643\/revisions\/24359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}