Hi Dr,
Late August, I had a sexual encounter with a bisexual woman. We were both drunk & the lights were off, I was giving her oral sex; when we turned on the lights we noticed that there was blood on the sheets - it's clear that I ingested some of this blood (my gums are weak so there may have been blood to blood contact). She later told me that it was her first time having penetrative sex with a guy (unprotected penetrative sex portion was very brief) and that before me she had been with a girlfriend for 2 years and performed oral sex on another guy - I have no way of verifying this. The very next day I started feeling very sick and threw up on several occasions – maybe caused by heavy drinking from night before (lots of beer, half bottle wine, several shots vodka).
One week later she tells me she's had a painful rash since our encounter & the doctor told her it's herpes, although she hadn't gotten tested. I started to freak out, my appetite decreased, I was getting night sweats, hot/cold chills (increased the more I googled). When I read symptoms of HIV I started freaking out. She also told me she was also experiencing flu-like symptoms (?). She went to go get tested and the lady told her that she was sure that it was herpes; she also got tested for HIV - negative, which was a relief. Other STD results came back negative, apparently it was a skin rash?
Shortly afterwards, I started to develop a dry mouth (stress?). This worried me greatly as I read this was also a symptom of HIV. I've been struggling with this chronic dry mouth since.
I got tested last week (9 weeks after – rapid oral), came back negative. Today I was feeling sick (runny nose, sore sinus); I went to a dr on campus, said that my tongue was tender red & that my neck lymph nodes were swollen (HIV symptom I had read before). Said this was common w/ a cold. My dry mouth is still present as well, should I be worried? If it isn't HIV, could heavy stress cause chronic dry mouth for this long?