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Aids: Symptoms?


Can a person have Aids/HIV if she/he doesn't show symptoms after 3 months?

Yes, that is possible. Someone mentioned that HIV infection is identified with flu-like symptoms. Another suggests that it may take months or even years for symptoms to show. Here's a suggestion that might help you to determine whether getting tested is a priority:

If you have had flu-like symptoms, accompanied with a rash, get tested. Don't get the HIV antibody test or the 20 minute test (they won't show the presence of antibodies for a while - perhaps 60 days). Get a viral load test - it will show the presence of the virus before the body's immunological response (the formation of HIV antibodies). Of course, if you have reason to believe you might have been exposed to HIV, get tested. If you participate in behaviors that would put you at risk for HIV - get tested.

OMG, If you have never had sex, why are you asking that question. Report It

Yes sometimes symptoms don't show for 10 years.

Possibly, some people may not show signs for years.
One sign is a flu like sympom, scary huh?
If you're worried GO HAVE YOURSELF TESTED!!

Oh yes, the first stage is HIV(+), wich means you showed positive to the virus when you were tested. You can be positive for years, until you start having diseases which are part of the syndrom. AIDS stands for Adquired Inmuno Deficient Syndrom, which means that there is a group of diseases you need to get in order to be diagnosted with AIDS. Also, you may never get the diseases but your CD4 count might get lower than 200, then you are diagnosted with AIDS. My advice, get tested, if don't have HIV, that's great, but if you do, you can get medical attention, but first of all, don't panic. People live with the virus for years and nothing happens, but as soon as they know they have it, they freak out and fear kills them, so relax.
I remembering reading that most poeple remember cold-like-synthoms in the next 48 hours after having sex with the personthey feel they got HIV from. Although, I think this is not an acurate way to say fot it might be coincidental, you can watch out for this synthoms. The best way for not getting HIV is abstinence...but if you cannot, allways use a condom.
Good luck

YES and NO.

But, there aren't actually any "symptom's" for AIDS.

HIV is a virus that attacks the immune system allowing other illnesses to attack the body.

Pneumonia is a common killer of people with HIV/AIDS, but anyone can get Pneumonia right? So you couldn't say Pneumonia is a symptom for AIDS could you? The same goes for a symptom for anything else.

However, there are common issues that are most prevalent in people with HIV. Things that don't appear in people with healthy immune systems. But a low immune system isn't just caused by HIV. Anyone can have a low immune system. There are all kinds of things that lower a persons immune system. Smoking, drugs, alcohol, genetic disease's

If you had asked if you can test positive for HIV after 3 months, then you'd have a whole set of different answers. One of which would be yes. But keep in mind, HIV & AIDS are two different classifications. HIV is when you're healthy (good immune system) and test positive with the virus and AID's is when you're at high risk for illnesses. (ie. low immune system).

A person can have HIV and never get sick. It all depends on the person, and the strain of HIV.

People rarely die of HIV/AIDS related illnesses anymore. Not near the numbers of the 80's & 90's. New drugs help keep the virus in check. The people that do get sick, are usually drug abusers, people that don't take HIV Medications and/or people that live a unhealthy lives.

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