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Health / Re: How Did You Feel When You Found Out You Were Hiv Negative? by thankfulguy: 1:35am On Apr 02, 2012
i know this post as old but i looked this up after my results and theres not a lot of posts out there.
3 years ago i had a few very questionable nights that were too wild. i was a graduating high school senior and had multiple partners unprotected.
that and the combination of constant pain killer and alcohol abuse in the time following my mothers death . lots of self medication and self loathing.
anyways that summer was filled with a few instances that i could hardly remember but would wake up with fluid stuck in my pubic area and little memory of the
multiple girls i had been with. in my depressive state though i did nothing about it. and as time went on the memories began to fade of that experimental summer .
a few years that followed had me wondering from time to time but i didn't have any symptoms and thought nothing of it . then i became very very sick and signs started to show up
swollen nodes rashes diarrhea, fatigue. its very dangerous to self diagnose and thats what i did. being the negative person i can be. i finally had a good job with good insurance and knew it was time
to know for sure. i was tested, and the weeks that past had my mind scrambling, convinced i was sick .
i was not taught in my catholic school of the dangers of stds and found out later of the dangers of waiting to be checked. but ignorance is no excuse, and i was no doubt that.
finally the time came when i would get the results and i was fully prepared for a positive result. but alas, negative. i thanked god (I'm not a professed christian or religious person) but i knew at that moment
that some grace and mercy had been shown upon me. i wept at the results and kissed the ground.

the point of my story is. don't wait to find out, because it deteriorates your health with the power of your mind doing lots self diagnosing and finding symptoms that really aren't they're or not what you think they are.
if i had been found positive i would have tried to stay as up beat as i could and get on the medications. but thank to some higher power is why i am negative.
be happy in your results and don't take life for granted. i never will again

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