Thank you for answering my questions Doctor. On July 2 I had unprotected insertive anal sex with another gay man. He says he is "sure" he is negative and says i'm the only guy he's been with but i don't know if i believe him. On July 10 I vigorously rimmed another man for 15-20 mins, and engaged in protected insertive anal sex. On July 13 I woke up with a headache, fatigue, chills, rapid diarrhea, and nausea. On July 14 I went into urgent care and got my temperature taken, it was 98 degrees despite the doctor saying my skin felt hot. So I can't say for sure if I had a fever. They tested me for gonorrhea and chlamydia and both came back negative. They tested my white blood cell count and lymphocytes and the white blood cell count was up, where as lymphocytes were neutral. He deduced I had a bacterial infection (infectious diarrhea) and prescribed ciprofloxacin twice a day for 7 days. I took one pill that night, and woke up feeling tremendously better. I was surprised how well I felt by July 16, like 90% better. I finished the antibiotics even though I felt fine. I contacted the guy who i had unprotected sex with and he says i'm the only guy he's been with and he's sure he's fine, and that he wants to get tested too because he's suspicious about me but that he feels fine on his end. I can't help but take what he says with a grain of salt, though i have been pressuring him to get tested and show me the results. I tested negative exactly 23 days post exposure, with a third generation rapid test. I'm willing to get a PCR test to calm my nerves, but it'll cost a couple hundred dollars. Anyway, what can you tell me about my symptoms, a connection to ARS, my negative test at 23 days, and whether you think I'm infected or not. I'm very very scared and i've been thinking about HIV nonstop.