After how many days does the AIDS virus show its effect?

after how many days does the AIDS virus show its effect?

Remember, the HIV virus is what CAUSES AIDS. AIDS itself is not the virus. You have to be infected with the HIV virus FIRST before the onset of AIDS, and being infected with HIV does NOT mean that AIDS is imminent.

According to Wikipedia, the median survival time after developing AIDS is under 10 months. It is the progression from HIV to AIDS that can be anywhere from a couple months to 20 years.

It can take up to 15 years for the AIDS virus to show up and start affecting you.

It can show on which environment ur living. If ur environment is dull then it will show within 2-3 years . If the environment is good then it can be shown after 9-10 years.

It can take years for it to show up. It doesnt show up right away that is for sure.

Are you wondering when you can get a test that will show if you have HIV? It depends on the state you live in and how they define "the window period."
The window period is the time from exposure to when your body produces enough antibodies to show up in a test. Some states have very good testing technology and the window period is only 3 months. Other states have a 6 month period.

If you put yourself at risk after you had the test - you'll need to go through it again. A test counselor should expalin this to you.

As for developing AIDS - it depends on your health and medical care. Some people can progress rather quickly, while others have had an AIDS diagnoses for several years. I have had clients who have had an AIDS diagnoses for about 8 - 10 years now. With medications you can live a very long a healthy life.

A lot of really bad misinformtion here.

Symptoms of an HIV infection can show up within one to six weeks (usually 2 to 4), in the form of flu-like symptoms - headache, fever, mild nausea, etc. This is called "viremia" and is a common symptom of viral infection with many types of virus. However only about 50-70% of people with HIV infection develop these intitial symptoms - many don't feel any symptoms during the initial infection. During this initial period your body produces antibodies, which suppress the virus, and then the symptoms go away usualy by week 6 to 8. The virus remains in your system however, at a low level, and you are still contagious, forever.

These antibodies are usualy detectable within 2 to 6 weeks from exposure by an antibody test for most people, within 3 months for about 95% of the infected population, and within 6 months in 99% of the poulation. So depending on how certain you want your test result to be, you can wait a little while or a long time.

Viral tests, done using a PCR-RNA test, can detect the virus itself directly, before antibodies are produced, within one to two weeks of exposure for most people, and within 4 weeks for 99% of the infected poulation. These cost anywhere from $200 to $400 to perform however.

After anywhere from a year to ten years or so (usually 6 to 10), the virus mutates enough times to eventually develop a key mutation that escapes the antibodies that you have produced, and the viral population increases again quite dramatically and this starts decreasing your lymphocyte and CD4 cell counts (damaging your immune system), thereby causing AIDS and all the symptoms that go with AIDS.