People usually look and feel very healthy long after infection. It can take 10 years or more for HIV to show any symptoms — or much longer than people taking HIV medications. That’s why it’s so important to get tested for HIV regularly, especially if you’ve had unprotected sex or shared injections. HIV treatment can help you stay healthy. Treatment can also reduce or even stop your chances of transmitting HIV to others through sex.
Fever, pain and vomiting may occur in the first 2-4 weeks after infection with HIV. These flu-like symptoms are your body’s first response to HIV infection. There are many viruses in your system during this time, so it is very easy to spread HIV to other people. Symptoms last only a few weeks and then usually have no symptoms for years. But HIV can spread to other people whether you have symptoms or not.
HIV destroys cells in your immune system called CD4 cells or T cells. Without CD4 cells, your body has a hard time fighting disease. This increases the chances that you actually get an infection that doesn’t usually harm you. Over time, the damage that HIV does to your immune system causes AIDS.
The signs of AIDS are:
1. Cancer sores (thick white coating on the tongue or in the mouth), Sore throat, bad yeast infection, chronic pelvic inflammatory disease, frequent bad infections, tireness, headache, fast weight loss, Bruising easier than usual, diarrhea, fever or night sweats for a long time.
Swollen or hard glands in the neck, armpits, or groin area, a deep, dry cough is suitable, feel short of breath. Purple growths on your skin or inside your mouth, bleeding from the mouth, nose, anus, or vagina, skin rash. You feel very numb in your arms or legs, you lose control of your muscles and reflexes, you can’t move and you lose muscle strength.
You have AIDS when your live with untreated HIV infection and have lost so many CD4 cells. This usually happens about 10 years after your HIV infection if you don’t get treatment. Treatment can delay or even prevent the development of AIDS.
So don’t hesitate to go for a periodic HIV test to determine your status and also help protect others from possible infection through. Share this article and let’s save lives.
Source: Plannedparenthood
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