harasgenster
06-08-10, 19:36
Hi
In November I slept with someone I didn't like very much (drunk and stupid) and have worried since then about HIV.
I got a test done probably around a month afterwards (although it may have been a fortnight - I can't remember!) and was negative for everything.
But in December I started feeling like my bladder didn't have as much stamina but I didn't think too much of it because I get mild cystitis from time to time and usually I just get a couple of symptoms then it goes away.
Then in April I got a really bad case of cystitis that they treated but it kept coming back. I went for scans of my pelvis, bladder, womb and kidneys but there were no signs of anything except my coil being out of place.
I got my coil out last month and it got a lot better quickly but the symptoms are still there.
I thought I needed to give it time to heal but it started feeling worse this week so I went to the doctor and he found blood and white cells in my urine.
I'm being treated for thrush in the bladder because they found thrush on the coil and in my vagina.
I don't actually have any symptoms of thrush, though! Apart from swelling.
So now I'm terrified because I read a while back that you don't normally get thrush in the bladder unless you're HIV positive and that one of the first signs of HIV in women is recurrent thrush infections. Then I read the leaflet from the pills they gave me and it had loads of information for AIDS patients which frightened me even more!
My boyfriend is sick of me being frightened of this because he thinks I'm being silly and he's probably right. The man I slept with just sort of stuck it in without warning so I didn't have time to ask him to use a condom and then he was only in there for a few thrusts (if you'll excuse the term) before he pulled out (he didn't ejaculate).
I was worried because he used to use prostitutes but he swore he'd been tested recently and in reality I know a lot of prostitutes demand the use of condoms.
Even if he was HIV positive, there was barely any contact makes it really unlikely I'd contract it doesn't it?
Has anyone any advice how I could stop worrying about this? I'm embarrassed to ask my doctor because he'd just think I was a hypochondriac (which I am!) and if he thought there was a chance he'd probably test for it.
In November I slept with someone I didn't like very much (drunk and stupid) and have worried since then about HIV.
I got a test done probably around a month afterwards (although it may have been a fortnight - I can't remember!) and was negative for everything.
But in December I started feeling like my bladder didn't have as much stamina but I didn't think too much of it because I get mild cystitis from time to time and usually I just get a couple of symptoms then it goes away.
Then in April I got a really bad case of cystitis that they treated but it kept coming back. I went for scans of my pelvis, bladder, womb and kidneys but there were no signs of anything except my coil being out of place.
I got my coil out last month and it got a lot better quickly but the symptoms are still there.
I thought I needed to give it time to heal but it started feeling worse this week so I went to the doctor and he found blood and white cells in my urine.
I'm being treated for thrush in the bladder because they found thrush on the coil and in my vagina.
I don't actually have any symptoms of thrush, though! Apart from swelling.
So now I'm terrified because I read a while back that you don't normally get thrush in the bladder unless you're HIV positive and that one of the first signs of HIV in women is recurrent thrush infections. Then I read the leaflet from the pills they gave me and it had loads of information for AIDS patients which frightened me even more!
My boyfriend is sick of me being frightened of this because he thinks I'm being silly and he's probably right. The man I slept with just sort of stuck it in without warning so I didn't have time to ask him to use a condom and then he was only in there for a few thrusts (if you'll excuse the term) before he pulled out (he didn't ejaculate).
I was worried because he used to use prostitutes but he swore he'd been tested recently and in reality I know a lot of prostitutes demand the use of condoms.
Even if he was HIV positive, there was barely any contact makes it really unlikely I'd contract it doesn't it?
Has anyone any advice how I could stop worrying about this? I'm embarrassed to ask my doctor because he'd just think I was a hypochondriac (which I am!) and if he thought there was a chance he'd probably test for it.