HIV Symptoms in Singapore: Symptoms of early/acute/primary HIV infection in men & women occur 2-4 weeks after infection, and include: fever, skin rash, lethargy, malaise, joint pain, headache, muscle pain, nausea, sore throat, neck stiffness, swollen glands, vomiting, cough, breathlessness, aches, tiredness, mouth ulcers, blurred vision, genital sores, chills, appetite loss, night sweats, diarrhoea, weight loss, confusion, light sensitivity, gum infection, anal sores.
Acute Retroviral Syndrome: Associated Signs and Symptoms
(Expected Frequency Among Patients Who Are Symptomatic)
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Get your HIV test done if you are experiencing some of these symptoms!
Get HIV PEP treatment to stop you from getting HIV infected, if your exposure was less than 72 hours ago!
References
Prevalence of Primary HIV Infection in Symptomatic Ambulatory Patients
http://www.annfammed.org/content/3/5/400
doi: 10.1370/afm.376
Diagnosis and Management of Acute HIV Infection
diagnosis-and-management-of-acute-hiv-infection-10-16-2012
Use of laboratory tests and clinical symptoms for identification of primary HIV infection
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12004270
Acute HIV-1 Infection
http://hivbook.com/2011/10/26/5-acute-hiv-1-infection/
Remember, there is no HIV cure.
Or could you be having AIDS symptoms?
CLINICAL FEATURES
Clinical HIV infection undergoes 3 distinct phases:
Acute Seroconversion
During this phase, the infection is established and a proviral reservoir is created. Seroconversion may take a few weeks, up to several months. Symptoms during this time may include fever, flu-like illness, lymphadenopathy, and rash. These manifestations develop in approximately half of all people infected with HIV.
Asymptomatic infection
At this stage in the infection, persons infected with HIV exhibit few or no signs or symptoms for a few years to a decade or more. Viral replication is clearly ongoing during this time, and the immune response against the virus is effective and vigorous.
AIDS
When the immune system is damaged enough that significant opportunistic infections begin to develop, the person is considered to have AIDS. A CD4+ T-cell count less than 200/μL is also used as a measure to diagnose AIDS, although some opportunistic infections develop when CD4+ T-cell counts are higher than 200/μL, and some people with CD4 counts under 200/μL may remain relatively healthy.
Opportunistic infections and conditions include the following (* added in the 1993 AIDS surveillance case definition):
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