Could my symptoms be associated with ars?

[Fur200026H]

Yes, I know that you cannot indicate hiv infection through symptoms but hear me out and let me know your thoughts on this. 4 weeks ago I had unprotected vaginal sex with a male friend. I asked him to get tested and he was negative. He claims I'm the only person he had sex within the past year and this is his 2nd hiv test in 7mos. 4 weeks later I got rapid test which came back negative. A week ago a male friend fingered me & rubbed his penis on me. Exactly a week later I developed a sore throats. Later on in the day I had muscle aches, fatigue, headache, and mild fever (99.0-100.7 never made it over or to 101.0). I have thought maybe it may be a cold of some sort but I have swollen lymph nodes in my neck, armpits, and groin which is not seen in colds. 2 days later the muscle aches are not as bad and fever is gone but sore throats, headache, and swollen lymph nodes still remain. 3 days later sore theist still remains, headache comes and goes and lymph nodes are still swollen. Could ars be the cause of my swollen lymph nodes all over my body? I had a rapid test done the day I first started feeling these symptoms but it came back negative but the time frame from exsposure to testing would not give me accurate results (1 week).

[AnxiousNoMore]

Friend one is conclusively negative if he tested as claimed. It is impossible to get HIV from fingering and rubbing so you can't get HIV from friend 2.

Lymph swell with a cold which you didn't notice when you weren't looking for lymph, so that shows it is best to not try to self diagnose if you don't have medical training. It is easy to over-analyze your body looking for clues to a disease you are worried about until you get to the point that your imagination gets the best of your reasoning and you swear you have the disease you Googled.

Doctors don't try to diagnose HIV from symptoms because it is futile, so that shows that it won't work for the rest of us as well.