HIV Anxiety

[Straightouttaluck]

So i've had severe anxiety over the Christmas period, This is to do with HIV and other STI's. I found got myself a girlfriend (who I lost my V too) and we broke up after a month. She insisted that she was clean and there were no issues involved.

Around Christmas time(after we broke up), I had a sore throat and occasionally felt ill. I foolishly googled symptoms and HIV came up. Since then i've been finding myself to have more of the symptoms which I was told. I'm not sure if it's because i'm worried or I have HIV. I've been worried sick for around a month and cannot stop thinking about how bad my life would be if I was positive. I'm 18 years old! I struggle to sleep because of this anxiety.

Is there any steps I can to overcome this unhealthy obsession with HIV? I know I need to get tested but i'm too scared to get tested. My mum recently had Shingles, she's in her 50s and works in a school. I'm scared that is not a coincidence.

How can I overcome this anxiety and fear to be checked?! :(

[BigG1]

The easy part is getting tested. The scary part is the wait due to the anxiety. I am in the same situation with the HIV anxiety. The best way to rid of this is testing and time.

[Straightouttaluck]

Have you had any feedback yet? What was the cause of you getting tested?

[BigG1]

Had unprotected sex and oral. I got urethritis and a wart frozen off my penis. Basically from the next day after I started feeling tingling in the urethra which I know now was the urethritis which put me in a panic. Then popped up the wart which was frozen off. Since my stress and anxiety is beyond normal. I'm currently thinking due to this I caused all my other symptoms of flu, body aches etc. I've had every symptom in the book man. I contacted her and the person she was with prior and asked them to get tested which they did and came back negative, but can you trust people? The best thing is honestly to just get the 4 week HIV test to ease your mind. Because the 3 month wait with stress and anxiety is not good for your physical or mental health. This is coming from someone who is very laid back and go with the flow kind of guy. But this experience has done a number to me. Don't dread about it and don't wait. Just get it done for peace of mind.