NVDL: Google 'PML' and you'll get Progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy. It's a brain wasting disease (white matter is consumed in different parts of the brain) typical of people suffering from Immunity-disorder. Someone I know knows someone who recently lapsed into a coma and earlier today died on this disease.
PML is just one really nasty way to die. If you're too scared to get yourself tested for AIDS, then have a look at these initial symptoms and testing procedures.
Healthatoz.com: Antibody levels generally do not reach levels high enough to be detected until one to three months after infection, and it may take up to six months for levels to become high enough to show up in standard blood tests. The change from a negative test for antibodies to a positive one is called seroconversion.
Many people don't have symptoms when they become infected with HIV, and others may have a flu-like or a mononucleosis-like illness within a month or two after exposure to the virus. They may have fever, headache, fatigue and enlarged lymph nodes (organs of the immune system located in the neck and groin). These symptoms usually disappear after one week to a month and are often mistaken for flu or another viral infection.
Symptoms appearing months or years after HIV infection include:
* Rapid weight loss
* Dry cough
* Recurring fever or profuse night sweats
* Profound and unexplained fatigue
* Diarrhea that lasts for more than a week
* White spots or unusual blemishes on the tongue, in the mouth or in the throat
* Pneumonia
* Red, brown, pink, or purplish blotches on or under the skin or inside the mouth, nose or eyelids.
* Memory loss, depression and other neurological disorders
PML is just one really nasty way to die. If you're too scared to get yourself tested for AIDS, then have a look at these initial symptoms and testing procedures.
Healthatoz.com: Antibody levels generally do not reach levels high enough to be detected until one to three months after infection, and it may take up to six months for levels to become high enough to show up in standard blood tests. The change from a negative test for antibodies to a positive one is called seroconversion.
Many people don't have symptoms when they become infected with HIV, and others may have a flu-like or a mononucleosis-like illness within a month or two after exposure to the virus. They may have fever, headache, fatigue and enlarged lymph nodes (organs of the immune system located in the neck and groin). These symptoms usually disappear after one week to a month and are often mistaken for flu or another viral infection.
Symptoms appearing months or years after HIV infection include:
* Rapid weight loss
* Dry cough
* Recurring fever or profuse night sweats
* Profound and unexplained fatigue
* Diarrhea that lasts for more than a week
* White spots or unusual blemishes on the tongue, in the mouth or in the throat
* Pneumonia
* Red, brown, pink, or purplish blotches on or under the skin or inside the mouth, nose or eyelids.
* Memory loss, depression and other neurological disorders
 clipped from www.healthatoz.com
AIDS might not appear for as long as 10 years after infection, during which time the HIV virus continues to weaken the immune system.
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