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HIV Risk Shoul I Be As Scared As I Am?

July 27th I had my first same sex experience ever with a guy. It just consisted of PROTECTED anal sex in which he did not ejaculate, and UNPROTECTED oral sex. 1 week and 5 days after this experience I started to exhibit a wide range of symptoms that I researched and has me convinced that I have an STD and I'm specifically scared it may be HIV. I've been having a chest pain that has been going on before that experience for like 3 months that comes and goes, and the symptoms that I started to have 1 week and 5 days after this experience was my lymph nodes in my neck started to bother me and with time the ones in my underarms, pelvis, and my inner thigh started to bother me. I had a slight sore throat which could have been from sleeping under the air conditioner that night, and headache, and just a feeling of being unwell. Its been 1 month and 8 days since and my glands still are bothering me off and on, my throat keeps feeling really dry but not sore, most recently fatique. I actually went to the doctor and he said that's it's most likely a virus I'm getting over and that he saw nothing wrong and that one of my glands is more swollen than the other but they will go down, and I did get tested for STD's ad they had me do a urine sample and took blood I just got the results for the Chlymidia, Gonnrhea, and Syphillis and the results were negative, and I have to go in for the HIV because they don't give those results over the phone at all. I'm really scared about HIV because I've researched the symptoms and they line up with mine. I'm so terrified even though I had PROTECTED anal and UNPROTECTED oral what is the chance that I have caught and STD from this experience, should I be worried? Will I be okay? Could this be something else?
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You dont have a risk of HIV test for other STDs
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You had protected sex, so whatever is going on has nothing to do with HIV.
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