A TikTok consumer has opened up about their expertise with HIV—a virus they had been identified with after a health care provider initially wrote it off as strep throat.

Kyle, identified by their TikTok identify @saintkyle13, recalled their analysis in a now-viral video that has acquired round 850,000 views and 140,000 likes inside just some days of being posted.

In the video, Kyle mentioned they initially went to an pressing care heart for a "random sore throat" they had been experiencing. The physician suspected strep throat and prescribed antibiotics to do away with it.

Nonetheless, Kyle needed to return to the medical doctors after the sickness persevered together with 30 kilos of weight reduction. They had been additionally "barely" capable of stroll. Additional testing revealed an HIV analysis.

This was a while in the past, and Kyle mentioned in a remark beneath the video: "I have been undetectable for 3.5 years now and more healthy than I've ever been."

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Since posting the video, the TikTok consumer has launched a number of different clips outlining how they handled their sickness and has advocated openness and common testing.

"Get examined frequently and ask your companions what their standing is! Data is energy," wrote Kyle within the caption to the viral video.

In a follow-up clip, Kyle mentioned persons are "100% in your proper to ask for proof that somebody just lately received examined."

They added: "Should you really really feel uncomfortable asking somebody for this, I do know that it is delicate data however for those who really feel like they may react in a means that's detrimental then perhaps that is somebody that you just should not be sleeping with."

Newsweek has requested Kyle for remark.

HIV, which stands for human immunodeficiency virus, is a virus that assaults the physique's immune system and might result in AIDS if left untreated. There may be at the moment no remedy for HIV however it may be managed so that individuals with it may well stay lengthy, wholesome lives and shield their companions, in accordance with the U.S. Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention (CDC).

Within the U.S., HIV is principally unfold by having intercourse or sharing syringes and different injection gear with somebody who's contaminated with it.

Signs can embrace flu-like signs inside two to 4 weeks of an infection which can embrace fever, chills, rash, evening sweats, muscle aches, sore throat, fatigue, swollen lymph nodes, and mouth ulcers. Extra data on signs could be discovered on the CDC's web site right here.

Prevention methods embrace not having intercourse, carrying condoms accurately throughout intercourse, and by no means sharing needles. There are additionally medicines generally known as pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) and post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP) that may assist stop HIV.

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A inventory photograph depicts a health care provider holding a affected person's hand as if consoling them. A TikTok consumer says they had been identified with HIV after going to see a health care provider with a sore throat.pcess609/Getty