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Are these STD / ARS symptoms?

Last year on 12 November I slept with someone I met and we used protection vaginal sex and we kissed numerous times. We both took a rapid test and both results were negative before sex. first week of December i started having chest & back pains, burning nose and a persistant tension headache...I got sinus medication but it did not help much. I took another rapid HIV test on 27th December which came out negative then I also did a lab COVID test (it was a mouth swab) results came back negative. today January 21. its been a month and I am still having a persistant tension headache which does not respond to pain medication, and i still have burning sensation in my nose plus chest and back pains. my doctor gave me more pain medication and GERD medication but its not helping either.
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You never had a risk for HIV from your exposure. Protected sex and kissing are not risks for HIV. The only way you'll get HIV is if you have unprotected vaginal or anal sex or share IV drug needles to inject drugs. Air and saliva inactivate the virus. NO ONE gets hiv from kissing and protected vaginal means there is a barrier. You tested negative on top of that although you never needed to test. Because you had no risk. Nothing you are experiencing health wise is related to HIV. And yes, this is the final answer so there is not other follow up you should have. No, but what about my symptoms . . . hiv is not diagnosed by symptoms. It's first looked at from a risk assessment (YOU HAD NO RISK) and then determined by test if there was a risk (YOU DIDN'T NEED TO TEST BUT YOUR RESULT CONFIRMS YOU DON' HAVE HIV). no risk
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