What are the early signs and symptoms of HIV? Do you know? If you don’t you need to learn them. There are two separate stages when HIV shows its early signs. First is when you are just infected. When first infected most people experience flu-like symptoms – body-aches, fever, chills, night sweats, day sweats and extreme fatigue. Often they are laid out, sick in bed. This happened to me when I was first infected with HIV. If you have not been taking ARVs, these same signs show up almost a decade later when the disease turns into Aids. That is when similar symptoms will again alert you that something is seriously wrong with your health.                In October 1983, about a week after having sex and after not having had any intercourse for several months before that, I suddenly became desperately ill. I lay prostrate on the mattress on the floor of my upstair...