What are some symptoms for AIDS after a year?
AIDS is the clinical diagnosis of HIV infection that has caused your immune system to drop below 200CD4 T cells/µL of blood or 14% of all lymphocytes. If you had anything after a year, it would be HIV, but that seems unlikely. Typically someone exposed experiences “flu-like” symptoms 2-4 weeks after initial infection (this is called acute HIV infection), where often times lymph nodes become swollen, a fever hits and general malaise (just feeling physically bad) strikes. This is your body’s immune response to the virus, after which you will likely not have any symptoms whatsoever for many years (many people don’t progress to clinical “AIDS” for ten years or more). Just get tested if you’re worried (it’s good to get done any way with some regularity if you are having unprotected sex). Really, though, you should be getting screened for all STDs if you are sexually active, because it is far more likely that you’ll come down with a case of something else. Most clinics can test for them all
