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Am i Hiv infected?

My name is Jerald. I am 27 years old from Australia.

I had 3 encounters when I was in Malaysia for a short holiday trip three weeks ago (today is 4 may 09).

(1) Performed unprotected oral sex with a sex worker only. I licked her vagina but was quite certain I had a little bleeding gum due to brushing teeth in the morning. The encounter happened around 4pm (the session lasted less than 20 minutes).

(2) Performed 2 Protected vaginal intercourses with 2 different sex workers (No oral sex). (each session lasted less than 15 minutes)

I am SOOOooo guilty about the whole thing. i don’t know what went thru my head for what I did when I was in Malaysia. And right NOW i neerrvveee is in a wreck

Prior returning to Australia, i had gastric problem may be due to over eating hot local food and experienced slight sorethoat which went away already. I underwent a HIV test (Elisa) in Malaysia after 8 days of exposure from the first encounter and it came back negative.

I just returned to Australia on 21 April and had a flu injection.

Currently, I have slight fever and sore throat which comes in once in a while, tingling sensation in my fingers and toes area (symptom of HIV?), headache once in a while (it’s not that severe). All this may be due to anxiety attack WHICH i am not sure about. Clearly I am in a mess and can’t think straight. A few days ago, I feeling of nausea and coudlnt sit calmly in the back of the car (anxiety attack or HIV related symptom? I am not sure).


Doctor, please tell me whether i am infected with HIV?



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See your doctor if you are concerned about symptoms they have nothing to do with HIV. You were never at risk of contracting HIV.
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once in a while i feel nausea like wanting to vomit but not vomiting. like feeling sick kinda thing. and slight throbbing in my head once in a while. do you think it is more related to stress or anxiety attack?

sorry, ive been going on about this for a little too long.

I just need to get it out of my chest.
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my hands shake because i am SOOOooooo Freakin SCARED about this.

I am praying hard to god that i am okay.

tingling sensation due to stress/anxiety?

I had headache past few days ago. was it due to too much thinking about "it". now its gone cos ive taken panadol.

any clarification will be great.

thanks.
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Right now my NERVE is such a chaos that my hands starts to shake and able to feel tingling sensation once in a while in my index fingers and the sole of my feet, and feeling nausea. Fever has dissapeared and sore throat is now clearing up.

what's swollen lymph nodes? i just dont get it.  
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Hi Teak.

Thank you for your reply.

In regards to the first encounter, I did taste her vaginal fluid and i had slight bleeding gum or may be sore gum (May be due to brushing my teeth incorrectly or heatiness that my body experienced). would i able to contract hiv virus?

what if the vaginal fluid made contact with my gums, can i still be infected?




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In the situations you've provided you haven't had a risk of contracting HIV.
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