Brief Answer:
Normal tongue; no symptoms of HIV
Detailed Answer:
Hi,
Welcome again to the forum and thanks for your further follow up.
I have gone through the picture sent by you. After going through the picture and analyzing the history and complaints with diligence I can make out that your tongue is totally normal. Though there is bit coating on the tongue but that too is quite normal. Mild coating and ulcers with difficulty in swallowing are seen in acute
stress rather than HIV.
I can get from your query that your are trying to correlate your tongue with oral thrush- a sign of HIV infection. But let me tell you that oral thrush is seen in late HIV infection(After mutiple of months to years of period of getting HIV). It never presents within first few months.
Had it been oral thrush too then it is actually very much visible process on tongue which even not patient can miss. So after through analysis of picture I can very well reassure you that your tongue is normal.
Now in the same manner for the other problem also, I am fully confident that you will not have any problem in future. The
slight sore throat and slight difficulty swallowing which you are explaining is very natural- normal process which everyone of us feel now and then in our daily life. But the only thing which had changed now is the over-consciousness and the perceiving in yourself.
To tell you simply the slight pain sensation is very usual phenomenon in all of us because of wear and tear phenomenon in our body. We usually do not pay our attention on it as we have nothing in our mind related to it. So we ignore this feeling as a usual phenomenon.
But now, as you are quite conscious about each and every minor change, so even slight pain or itching or any other feeling like that would be more prominently experienced.
This kind feeling, as well as other similar such feelings would be experienced by you till the time you will not come out of your aura of having a
sexually transmitted disease. You are completely alright and nothing is to be worried about.
The symptoms of acute HIV infection which are known as "Acute retroviral syndrome" are such a XXXXXXX symptoms which are never missed. At least in part of high grade
fever (not below 102 F), swelling of
lymph nodes or a prominent
rash are never missed. There are no such symptoms in yourself and as per my clinical experience would also not be present in future.
Let me again reassure you that in my complete 15 years of practice I have never seen or read or heard any case of HIV occurring after protected sex. The wisest and best part in your case is using a protection. Had it been an unprotected case- I would not had been able to reassure you in the same manner.
So believe in your doctor's suggestions and relax yourself.
So dear fellow, kindly relax and enjoy your Sunday!!!
I hope these information will help you. If you have any further queries I will be glad to help or if you do not then can close the query and rate the answer.
"With best wishes"
Regards,
Dr Sanjay Kumar Kanodia
MD (Dermatology and Sexually transmitted diseases)