I was wondering if you could please help me as I am very worried about possible exposure. I was recently in Thailand and at a ping pong show, at one point the ping pong shot out in my direction and hit my hand, when I looked at my hand I had cuts (I have dermatitis) which had cracked the day before - is it possible for transmission this way if the ball containing HIV virus hit my cut?
Also I slept with a guy, we had protective sex but at one point he put his penis in before the condom was on - this was before I realised and told him to put it on as I didn't know his status and I'm not on the pill. A week later I had protective sex with another guy but we had unprotected oral sex. When I got back after a very long plane flight (which was 12 days after ping pong / 10 days after first sexual encounter / 5 days after second sexual encounter) I started to get a scratchy throat, next day I was very tired (also jet lagged) and had a very croaky husky voice, however I went out to partying for 24 hours...
I then spent the next two days in bed with muscle ache, very chesty cough (occasionally bringing up yellow mucus), croaky voice, sore throat and a blocked nose... I am not sure if I had a fever as wasn't able to take my temperature, however I took my temperature on the third day of feeling ill (when I also returned to work) and it was 36.7 degrees Celsius which I think is normal., however in the evening it was 38.8!
By the fourth day the muscle aches had stopped and my temperature was 36.6 however I still had a chesty cough and was very congested.
Are these signs of ARS? Or could I possibly have caught something on the plane? Or perhaps my immune system was just exhausted? Please help me as I am very anxious!!