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2006-07-09 08:25:22 · 3 answers · asked by Vanessa W 2 in Health Diseases & Conditions STDs

i mean having a cough or cold, but your body temperature is low

2006-07-09 08:31:34 · update #1

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The earliest symptoms of HIV infection occur while your body begins to form antibodies to the virus (known as seroconversion) between six weeks and three months after infection with the HIV virus. Those who do show early HIV symptoms will develop flu-like symptoms. This can include: fever, rash, muscles aches and swollen lymph nods and glands. However, for most people, the first symptoms of HIV will not be apparent.

Although the infection is slowly taking hold of your body, the majority of those infected with HIV will be asymptomatic. Only by being tested for HIV can you know for sure if you have been infected. Yet, despite the absence of HIV symptoms, you are still highly contagious during this time making it very much a possibility to infect others, including your baby.

HIV/AIDS Symptoms
As the infection progresses, people with HIV grow increasingly susceptible to illnesses and infection that don’t normally affect the healthy population. Even though many of these illnesses can easily be treated, those with HIV often have such weakened immune systems that typical cures fail.

Without treatment, people infected with HIV can expect to develop AIDS eight to ten years after HIV infection. Taking HIV medications, however, can slow down this progression. With treatment, it can take ten to 15 years or more before you develop AIDS. In the later stages of HIV, before it progresses to full blown AIDS, signs of HIV infection can involve more severe symptoms. These include:Fever and/or night sweats
Easy bruising
Bouts of extreme exhaustion
Unexplained body rashes
Appearance of purplish lesions on the skin or inside mouth
Sudden unexplained weight loss
Chronic diarrhea lasting for a month or more

chronic yeast infections or thrush (yeast infection of the mouth)

2006-07-09 08:32:06 · answer #1 · answered by purple 6 · 0 1

Nope, not necessarily.
You don't have any real problems until you develop AIDS.
However, there are thousands of other reasons that you could have a low fever besides having HIV-- that shouldn't be your first guess.

2006-07-09 15:30:06 · answer #2 · answered by doubled254 3 · 0 0

yes protracted low grade fever is a result of either active hiv infectin or super added tuberculosis which occurs with hiv. along with that generalised lymphadenopathy occurs

2006-07-09 15:29:55 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

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