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Do I have HIV .scared !!

Ok am sooo scared and this is the first time I signed up to something like this online .. am a girl from Ireland , recently got back with my on and off BF .. 3/4 weeks after having unprotected sex I got sick .. symptoms include muscle pain , fever , headache, night sweats but not much no sore throats no weird rash.. we started having unprotected sex early January and fell sick early February.. it started with body pain and headache before fever came went to my doctor she said I had high blood pressure so they did some blood , the results came back and stated my white blood count was a little low that's all .. am soo scared could I have hiv .. please help thank you
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Thanks for your response guys .. but am just soooo scared I cnt eat I cnt think .. could it be just a flu . Cause I remember having something like this back in 2014 but did not last this long . But am going to stop searching up symptoms and just move on am sure it's not HIV , cause the risk of hiv in Ireland is really low anyways . Am just panicking google has been all I do for over one week  searching up symptoms.
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Only a test is conclusive. If you haven't gone 28 days past your last unprotected, why not get him to do one and show the result?I presume he is not seeing others, otherwise I would be using protection from now on.
i always ask for a test before starting an unprotected relationship so now is a good time for you to ask if you are planning on more with him.
BTW, there is an std forum and condoms do not protect against std, but they protect against HIV.
Am certain it's just a flu as I work in a call centre and expose to the flu . I know am overthinking
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You can do a 4th generation test for a conclusive result after 28 days from your last unprotected exposure.

Anything else is just a guess and proves nothing because anyone without HIV can have those "symptoms" you claim are real, but are just self-diagnosed.
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It could be regular flu,  or you could check your blood std test in which 28 days from last exposure
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Okay I just have a quick question please would love if you replied .. after everything I started feeling better for like five days then I stared having chills and headache now I have some discomfort under my jaw and I noticed some swollen lymph on both side of my shoulder and my neck kinda hurts too could this be a sign of the seroconverting stage
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