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Does anxiety make you develop hiv symtoms

Hello everyone. I resently made a mistake of having unprotected oral/vaginal sex. I know, I was so stupid for that. There was little penetration and I don't think my patner ejaculated inside. I soo worry I have contrated the virus. It's been 2 weeks and I'm feeling sick. I have not been eating right.all this days. I been having flu symptoms, like chills, nausea headache stufffy nose. I got some tests. Still waiting for results. 2 weeks might be too early to detect hiv. I can't eat sleep nor concentrate thinking about it, can't even work. I think I might be running a fever since I'm so cold. And I feel like going to the bathroom multiple times. Please help! Don't know what to do.
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You should be fine. Anxiety can make any symptom happen and i mean any. But you may have a virus. There is a bad one going around now that acts like a mini flu
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Thank you soo much for responding to my question. I think Im anxius because I'm waiting for my test result. Wich it won't be until Wednesday.
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If this helps, I will give it to you now so you don't have to wait - The 100% guaranteed result is negative as I explained before unless you think you are the first person in history to catch HIV this way.
I wouldn't even bother going in to see it, so whoever gave it to you took advantage of your anxiety and scammed you.
There are lots of diseases that you can actually catch but instead you are focusing on one that you can't, so until you accept the science you will suffer from anxiety because it makes you over-analyze yourself looking for things that don't exist.
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You have no disease. HIV can't be caught from oral sex so all those "symptoms" are just in your mind. They occur because you are worrying yourself into a bit of a frenzy because the disease is repugnant to you, however disease is not contagious from worry so you won't get it that way either.
You wasted your money on the test and I am surprised the doctors would not tell you that. The solution is to accept the science and find something useful to think about that can actually happen, Even winning a lottery at 1 in 10,000,000 has some chance of happening but HIV from oral has zero chance unless you are worried that you are the first person in history to catch it that way.
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