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HIV mouth ulcers

Hello,

I'm a straight male who had an unprotected experience with a female sex worker 2-3 weeks ago. She gave me gonorrhea and I was treated for that.

About 2-3 weeks later (2 days ago), I woke up with  extremely swollen lips and pain behind my top lip. I had red patches behind my lip, on my cheeks (inside of mouth), and the roof of my mouth. It's very painful and I haven't been able to eat a full meal because of it.

The red patches have turned white and now I have 8-10 in my mouth. My lymph nodes in my neck are also swollen.

I am not showing any other symptoms of HIV, no flu like symptoms, no fever, no rash. I am very paranoid about these 8-10 things in my mouth. They started off red, almost like a broken blood vessel, but swollen, and then turned into this white sore. There is no puss or anything coming out.

Could this be a sign of primary HIV infection?
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Having unprotected vaginal or anal sex is a risk period.
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If it doesn't sound like a primary infection, what does the primary infection mouth sores look  like and how painful are they?

Also, I heard the risk of male and female HIV infection is VERY low... but if she was a sex worker, and lets say I had sloppy seconds. Could that raise the risk?
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Doesn't matter you received your assessment in your other post.
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It's not duplicate, when I asked this question before I only had one or two red spots in my mouth. They have grown to 8-10 and turned white.

Can you please confirm for me this doesn't sound like a primary infection?
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Duplicate Post.
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