How long can it take for HIV to start showing Syptoms? Can it take 6 or 7 years?

It depends, I think on how your immune system is, if you have a bad immune system it can become more evident and turn in to AIDS making you sicker. It all depends on how often you get sick.
I don't know a lot about it but try searching it online, there are tons of sources out there.
Good Luck

Dear Minkle.

I do hope you'll already get an answer, if not maybe I could help you.. the HIV will not react and showing the symptom if you could take a good care of your stamina. When you're stamina getting low and lower.. it will showing up easily. So Gernald was right. It depend on how you take a good care of your body and stay healthy.

The length of time varies widely from person to person. The average time line is around 10 years, yet others become symptomatic as early as 2 years or less.

If you think you may have HIV/AIDS then it is imperative that you get tested as soon as possible and begin treatment to slow the progression of the disease.

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The time you stay asymptomatic varies for all sorts of reasons:

* You may have got infected with more than one kind of HIV at once (referred to as dual infection).
* You may have HIV that reproduces particularly fast or slowly.
* Some people have a genetic variation that means HIV finds it difficult to infect their cells.
* Your body may have mounted a particularly strong defence against HIV when you were first infected.
* You may have other infections which also damage the immune system, such as herpes or tuberculosis (TB). This is one reason why it is particularly important to stay healthy if you have HIV.

Stress, fatigue, depression and some recreational drugs can all run down the immune system, which is why it is important to stay well and happy. And poor diet also plays a part: this may be the reason why people in developing countries tend to develop AIDS faster.

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THT: Information resources: HIV and AIDS: Signs and symptoms: HIV