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If you get Herpes and HIV from the same encounter, would the herpes outbreak last much longer? |
I recently contracted herpes from a one time encounter, unprotected. The initial outbreak lasted 6 weeks, much longer than normal. I am worried the reason the outbreak lasted so long is because I might have also contracted HIV, weakening my immune system. I had the outbreak for a week. Then I got tested positive for herpes and negative for HIV. I took acylcovir, as prescribed, for 5 days (400mg x 3). When I stopped the medication, the outbreak continued. I was eating and sleeping well. Eventually I took acyclovir for 7 more days, without seeing a doctor. After that, the outbreak stopped. That was 6 weeks from first symptoms. It's been almost 3 months since the encounter. I've had 2 small 4 or 5 day outbreaks since the first one and took acyclovir for 5 days each time. I worry about this every night as I try to sleep. I plan to see a doctor again soon. The problem is, I'm so scared. What are the chances I got HIV as well? Look if you are at all concerned go back and have HIV/AIDS blood test. Your outbreaks of herpes are normal when first contracted everyone is different depending on immune system. It takes awhile for the full symptoms to appear in HIV so other than seeking further medical tests for peace of mind,we can only speculate..Good Luck 鈾? Source(s): Nurse First, HIV is the virus and AIDS is the diseased cause by that virus. When you have AIDS Adquired immunedeficiency syndrome, when your immunity has decreased is when you have the propensity to be infected and have a worst outbreak when you have a viral infection, or i could say any infection. I think you should be evaluated by a doctor and have at least an CD4 count and a HIV viral load, to see if your immunity is decreasing. Are you taking medication for the HIV? Hi there, The first-time (primary) outbreak of HSV often starts with painful itchy blisters on the penis. The blisters rupture and turn into oozing shallow sores that take up to 3 weeks to heal. A primary outbreak may also include flulike symptoms, such as fever, headache, and muscle aches; painful urination; and abnormal discharge. However, most people who become infected with HSV have no symptoms, or the symptoms are so mild that they do not recognize that they are infected. The incubation period-the time from exposure to genital herpes until the primary outbreak of infection-is 2 to 14 days. After the primary outbreak, the herpes simplex virus remains in the nerve cells below the skin in the area where the sores first appeared. The virus becomes inactive, causing no symptoms. In most people, the virus becomes active from time to time, traveling from the nerve cells to the skin and causing repeated blisters and sores (recurrent outbreaks). Sores from recurrent outbreaks usually heal faster and are less painful than those from the primary outbreak. However, genital herpes infections can be severe in people with impaired immune systems, such as people infected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). Factors such as stress, illness, a new sex partner, or menstruation may trigger recurrent outbreaks. Having genital herpes can increase the risk of being infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, and it can cause serious problems for people living with HIV. People who have genital herpes sores are more likely to be infected with HIV during intercourse. When you develop a sore, your immune system tries to heal it, so there are many immune cells concentrated in that spot. Those are the cells that HIV infects. If HIV in semen, vaginal fluid, or blood comes in contact with a herpes sore, the risk for infection is high. HIV and the herpes virus are a troublesome duo. One can worsen the effects of the other. Research shows that when the herpes virus is active, it may cause HIV to make more copies of itself (the process called replication) than it would otherwise. The more HIV replicates, the more of the body's infection-fighting cells it destroys, eventually leading to AIDS (acquired immune deficiency syndrome). People infected with both HIV and the herpes virus may have longer-lasting, more frequent, and more severe outbreaks of herpes symptoms, because a weakened immune system can't keep the herpes virus under control as well as a healthy immune system can. Now this is not to say that you have been infected with HIV because the only way to know is to get tested. Period. You will need to wait at least 13 weeks (3 months) since your last possible exposure if you want to receive an accurate and reliable test. Your initial HIV negative result is promising but it is not conclusive as it takes the body time to produce the antibodies to the HIV virus which is what doctors screen for in order to make a diagnosis. Regarding length of symptoms, they by no means indicate HIV co-infection. Yes people who are co-infected may have longer, more severe outbreaks but simply having longer outbreaks does not mean, by default, HIV infection as well. The only way to tell for certain, is to get tested. We each respond to medications and even the virus itself differently. With herpes, since it never goes away you can get recurring outbreaks but with most people, those outbreaks don't last as long, are not as painful and don't occur as frequently. Stress is a BIG precursor to an outbreak (and your worring at night unfortunately does not help the herpes but it is understandable). If you know which stressors do incure a flare up pay attention so that you can try to avoid those situations or at least prepare yourself for a possible outbreak. Hope this helps. Cheers. www.webmd.com www.docguide.com www.catie.ca www.aidsmeds.com herpes / is not curable / watch TV / get valtrex / and /in/ order/ for /the HIV/ test /to /be/ a 100%/ accurate/ no sex /of any kind /for six months /that/ is /what/ i/ am always told/ why unprotected / then again /protection /is not 100%/ either/ BUT /you/ have/ a higher risk HIV is not an std. Sex Has Nothing to Do With AIDS David Rasnick, Visiting Scientist, UC Berkeley rasnick@mindspring.com January 20, 2003 I challenge [doctors] to come up with the names, even one will do, of the persons documented to have shown that AIDS or HIV is sexually transmitted. I know of no such study. In fact, the scientific, medical literature is full of evidence that neither AIDS nor HIV is sexually transmitted. It is only assumed that they are. The results of the world's best scientific study that attempted to measure the efficiency of heterosexual transmission of antibodies to HIV was conducted by Nancy Padian and her colleagues (Padian NS, et al. 1997: Heterosexual transmission of human immunodeficiency virus in northern California: results from a ten-year study. Am J Epidemiol 146: 350-7). The most striking result of the ten-year study is that Padian et al. did not observe any HIV-negative sex partners becoming HIV-positive from years of unprotected sexual intercourse with their HIV-positive partners. I repeat?NOT ONE HIV-negative sex partner became positive during the 10- year study. Therefore, the observed transmission efficiency was ZERO. However, to avoid reporting a zero efficiency for the sexual transmission of HIV, Padian and colleagues assumed that the HIV-positive sex partners in their study must have become positive through sexual intercourse before entering the study. Using that assumption, they estimated that an HIV-negative woman would have to have sexual intercourse 1,000 times with HIV-positive men before becoming HIV-positive herself. Even more astounding, HIV-negative men would have to have 8000 sexual contacts before becoming HIV-positive. Virtually identical figures have been reported by others (Gisselquist, D., et al., HIV infections in sub- Saharan Africa not explained by sexual or vertical transmission. Int J STD AIDS, 2002. 13: p. 657-666; Jacquez, J.A., et al., Role of the primary infection in epidemics of HIV infection in gay cohorts. J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr, 1994. 7: p.1169-1184). Given these figures and that the US Centers for Disease Control estimates that one million Americans have antibodies to HIV raises an enormous problem for sexually transmitted HIV. Since there are around 280 million men and women in the USA, that means that on average an HIV-negative woman would have to have random sexual intercourse 140,000 times?and a man eight times that number?in order to become HIV-positive (assuming equal distribution of HIV between the sexes). Below are additional examples in the literature that neither AIDS nor HIV is sexually transmitted. - None of the husbands of HIV positive women became antibody positive to HIV over a three-year period. (Lancet ii: 581 (1985), Stewart et al.} - No transmission of HIV was observed between couples in which all of the women were HIV positive and in which at least 100 sexual contacts occurred. (JAMA 259: 3037 (1988), Padian et al.) - After a mean of 3-1/2 years of unprotected intercourse, with an average of 50 sexual encounters per year, only one hemophiliac wife became HIV positive. (American Journal of Medicine 85: 472 (1988), Kim et al.) - No transmission of T-cell abnormalities from hemophiliacs with AIDS to their spouses. (JAMA 251: 1450 (1984), Kreiss et al.) - "The number of American and European heterosexuals who have had sexual relations with a prostitute, who have no other admitted risk factors (such as drug abuse), and who have subsequently developed antibody to HIV can be counted on the fingers of one hand. Sex with a prostitute is not even listed as a risk category by the American CDC." (Rethinking AIDS, Root-Bernstein, 1993) - "Non-drug abusing prostitutes have no higher risk of AIDS than other women." (AIDS: the second decade, report from the National Academy of Sciences USA, 1990) The same is true for prostitutes in Germany, Zurich, Vienna, London, Paris, Pardenone (Italy), and Athens. (Klinische Wochenschrift 65: 287 (1987), Luthy et al.; Wiener Klinische Wochenschrift 98: 697 (1986), Kopp & Dangl-Erlach; Lancet ii: 1424 (1985), Brenky-Fandeux & Fribourg-Blanc; British Medical Journal 297: 1585 (1988), Day et al.; Scand J Infect Dis 21: 353 (1988), Hyams et al.) |
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