After two years of HIV infection, if you are in the asymptomatic stage of infection, you may not have any symptoms; if you enter the AIDS stage, you may have symptoms related to HIV, opportunistic infections, and malignant tumors.
Asymptomatic infection: This stage can last from a few months to several decades without any obvious symptoms.
AIDS stage: This is the final stage of HIV infection, and symptoms related to HIV, opportunistic infections, and malignant tumors may appear.
(1) HIV-related symptoms: These include persistent fever, night sweats, weight loss, fatigue, enlarged lymph nodes, etc. Some patients may have some mental symptoms. Some patients may have some mental symptoms, such as depression, apathy, memory loss, headache, epilepsy or even dementia.
(2) Symptoms of opportunistic infections: AIDS patients will have a series of opportunistic infections due to impaired immune function and show corresponding symptoms, for example, respiratory tract infections will have long-term chronic cough, coughing up sputum, fever, cyanosis, etc., and the effect of conventional anti-infective treatments is not good; gastrointestinal tract infections can have thrush, swallowing pain, abdominal pain, diarrhea, perianal infections and so on.
(3) Symptoms of malignant tumor: the most common malignant tumor combined with AIDS patients is Kaposi’s sarcoma, which mainly invades the skin, oral mucosa, etc., and is manifested as purplish-red infiltration-like nodules, which can be fused with each other or broken and spread around.
Patients who are suspected to be suffering from AIDS are recommended to go to professional hospitals as soon as possible to get a clear diagnosis in time and be treated accordingly under the guidance of doctors.