Early Symptoms of HIV Infection

Early Symptoms of HIV Infection

Once a person is infected by this virus, the symptoms start showing after 6 weeks to 12 weeks. Fever, rash, swollen lymph glands and muscle aches are the early symptoms of HIV infection. As you can see all of these are flu like symptoms, so they are usually ignored. Unless the person gets HIV specific tests done, after showing these symptoms, he/she may not know that they are suffering from HIV. When the infection starts growing, the person starts suffering from diseases which he/she would normally not suffer from. Weakening of the immune system is an HIV fact. There is no medicine to completely cure HIV or AIDS. However, if HIV is treated when the person shows the early symptoms of HIV, then the time taken to progress towards AIDS is reduced. Normally, it takes 8 to 10 years for the person to go from HIV infection to AIDS. The medications increase this time to up to 15 years or, in some cases, more than 15 years. Long lasting headaches, repeated yeast infections, enlarged spleen or liver are all early symptoms of HIV AIDS. Some of the acute HIV symptoms are mouth ulcers, skin rash and oral thrush.