What are some symptoms of hiv?

I would say that if you are asking for yourself get to the doctor yesterday. They have drugs that can prolong your life for a very long time. It's no longer the death sentence it was.

The earliest symptom is usually a cold/flu-like feeling that goes away after a week or so. HIV may then do nothing for 20 years. For most people, sero-conversion occurs within a few weeks/months - this means the virus becomes detectable by testing. It may be many years before you develop AIDS. There is a tiny set (thought to be no more than 1000 out of the many millions infected) that are resistant to the disease, and will not develop AIDS.

Once you have AIDS, your immune system is unable to fight off a number diseases that are typically not seen in humans, or else are very mild. These can include specific type of pneumonia and cancer.

Except for the slight flu-like symptoms early on after infection, you will not notice anything until you have full blown AIDS. This is why it is important to always have protected sex, and to have regular testing if you have multiple sex partners.

Go to www.aegis.com and get all the information you'll need to understand HIV. While you're there, check out the medications that you'll need to take if you should contract the disease and their possible side effects.

If you're thinking of taking the chance of having unprotected sex, consider it another form of Russian Roulette. In the one with a gun, if you get the loaded chamber, you're dead...instantly. With HIV, you're still dead, except it will take a longer time.