What if I told you that early HIV symptoms actually feel more like a common cold than anything else?
“Most people who get infected don’t even know. It’s only in hindsight they recognize the symptoms,” says Michael Horberg, M.D., director of HIV/AIDS for Kaiser Permanente.
During the first few weeks after infection (a stage known as acute HIV infection or acute retroviral syndrome), some people notice things like fever, aches, and sore throat. But after acute infection, patients move into clinical latency stage, or chronic HIV, which is largely symptom-free.
A refresher: HIV (a.k.a. human immunodeficiency virus) is an incurable virus that attacks your body’s immune system. It can be passed on through bodily fluids like semen, blood, and breast milk; though, not through saliva. When it comes HIV prevention, the CDC recommends using condoms or possibly exploring new medications like pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) and post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP), which aim to prevent the transmission of HIV.
While there is no cure for the disease, most HIV patients can still love long, healthy lives thanks to antiretroviral therapy (ART) treatments.
However, left untreated, HIV can progress to AIDS (acquired immunodeficiency syndrome), which can make you even more susceptible to severe illnesses and eventually lead to death.
The only way to really know whether you have HIV is to get tested (which you should be doing at least once a year if you’re sexually active and have unprotected sex). There are two options for anonymous and confidential home testing, but you need to make sure your tests are FDA-approved and be aware that results are not always accurate (and may require a follow-up test if positive).
Since early detection of HIV can prolong your lifespan and reduce your transmission rates, it’s important to be aware of the potential symptoms (as well as the fact that, in most cases, there are no symptoms). Here’s what you need to know about HIV symptoms in women:
1 Fever
One of the early signs of HIV may be an awful quality fever, up to around 37.5°C. A colossal number individuals as routinely as possible mess up it for generally common fever regardless this fever is consistently went with impacts like sore throat, expanded lymph organs, deficiency, and so forth
2 Fatigue
One of the provocative reactions of your depleted safe development is feeling depleted and slow. Shortcoming could be an early sign of HIV, but it could similarly be later. You can be basically correspondingly exhausted as not having the choice to walk around having not fostered any work a whole day.
3 Muscle beating, joint horror, enlarged lymph local area centers
Lymph center centers are tremendous for the body’s skeleton that are difficult to understand and are normally stimulated when harmed. Most of them are in the armpits, neck and groin and dependably continue to go for a long time period more than the ordinary time.
4 Sore Throat and Headache
5 Rashes
Dependably appears at the upper piece of the body especially hands, chest, neck and back, a rash can be a sign of the beginning and the perfection of HIV/AIDS.
6 Nausea, Vomiting, Diarrhea
While a piece of these signs may be more affirmed in one sex. Trouble, throwing and Diarrhea impacts a wide extent of individuals. In females, they by and large misuse it for pregnancy signs at any rate when they understood they haven’t missed their period, that is the place where they appreciate something isn’t correct. Around 30% to 60% of people in any case seasons of HIV experience transient infection, regurgitating, or the runs, says Dr. Malvestuto.
7 Weight loss
Weight decline, suggests that an all the more senseless infection and can go from delicate weight decreasing to colon weakness routinely cultivated by poop, predictable detachment of the inward parts and throwing.
8 Dry Hack
Ron, (a Hiv patient) first comprehended that something was off concerning him from a dry hack. Regardless, he thought it was an affectability. As shown by Dr. Malvestuto, this hack is a typical HIV misfortune who is phenomenally impaired and can continue to go for a surprisingly long time and you don’t have even the remotest clue how to control it. A colossal number individuals who have Hiv affected Dry hack reliably trusts in it’s a ludicrous interestingness.
9 Pneumonia
Weight decline and hacking can expect ensured sicknesses achieved by the early living thing. This wouldn’t make any issues enduring that the defended stage was working suitably. Another vascular burden is toxoplasmosis, a parasitic poisonous substance that impacts the mind; a kind of herpes defilement known as cytomegalovirus and compelling contaminating, similar to thrush.
10 Midnight Sweating
Around half of people sweat around evening time before all else seasons of HIV ruining, explains Dr. Malvestuto. At a later stage, they become more customary and immaterial to exercise or room temperature.
11 Nail Color Change
Various signs of HIV corrupting are nail changes, for instance, intensifying (contorting and thickening of the nails), staining (dull lines or vertical or plane chestnut lines). This is mainly achieved by persuading sicknesses like candida. According to Dr. The Malvestuto patient with an all around utilized safe skeleton is more defenseless than overpowering pollutions.
