I need help!
Hello forum. I’m new here... got my ITA mid September with a CRS of 473( cut off 471) and was given 90 days till the submission of profile. Currently trying to gather all necessary documents and also scheduled to do medicals mid this month(October). However early (first week) of September, due to the nature of my job I got a needle stick injury from a patient I was managing and after a rapid RVS was done which was non-reactive also history didn’t suggest any risk from the patient, I proceeded not to take PEP. For about 4 weeks now I have been having what seems like an acute HIV syndrome which started with watery diarrhea 2 weeks after exposure and lasted for 2 weeks and then now some form of peripheral neuropathy( started from the legs), dizziness, generalized myalgia, anorexia( lost 2kg in days), headache and drenching night sweats despite the cold weather. Rapid test about a week ago was non reactive. I have tried to rule out other possible causes of my symptoms most especially hypokalemia( result was normal). I am now left to believe that this might actually be a case of acute hiv syndrome. More so in this part of world you hardly see 4th generation Retroviral testing kits which picks up p24antigen and antibodies and can be detected earlier that the 3rd generation test kits. Also if I decide to go for a viral load it would take me about 2-3 months to obtain the result. As regards my application and my high suspicion of seropositivity, should I decline the invitation and wait till to redo the test after 3 months or should I go ahead with the medicals which is scheduled mid this month( of which they might use the 4the generation kit). Also I have a fiancé whom I intend adding post AOR and she is equally exposed from me.
Please forum I need as much advise as I can get... thanks
Hello forum. I’m new here... got my ITA mid September with a CRS of 473( cut off 471) and was given 90 days till the submission of profile. Currently trying to gather all necessary documents and also scheduled to do medicals mid this month(October). However early (first week) of September, due to the nature of my job I got a needle stick injury from a patient I was managing and after a rapid RVS was done which was non-reactive also history didn’t suggest any risk from the patient, I proceeded not to take PEP. For about 4 weeks now I have been having what seems like an acute HIV syndrome which started with watery diarrhea 2 weeks after exposure and lasted for 2 weeks and then now some form of peripheral neuropathy( started from the legs), dizziness, generalized myalgia, anorexia( lost 2kg in days), headache and drenching night sweats despite the cold weather. Rapid test about a week ago was non reactive. I have tried to rule out other possible causes of my symptoms most especially hypokalemia( result was normal). I am now left to believe that this might actually be a case of acute hiv syndrome. More so in this part of world you hardly see 4th generation Retroviral testing kits which picks up p24antigen and antibodies and can be detected earlier that the 3rd generation test kits. Also if I decide to go for a viral load it would take me about 2-3 months to obtain the result. As regards my application and my high suspicion of seropositivity, should I decline the invitation and wait till to redo the test after 3 months or should I go ahead with the medicals which is scheduled mid this month( of which they might use the 4the generation kit). Also I have a fiancé whom I intend adding post AOR and she is equally exposed from me.
Please forum I need as much advise as I can get... thanks