Help....

[jessie447]

This is my first time to post a question, am doing so because am way too worried. About less than a year ago i had a sexual encounter with a guy involved  some oral sex (being me the one recieving the oral sex) and kissing. and because i live in an arab country being gay is not allowed and certainly not talking about sex or HIV issues. about more than a month later from the event i had a flu like symptoms which lasted for a about a week including nasal congestion and  low grade fever, and no any other signs. However, i am psychologically disturbed thinking i have HIV and there are no means for testing in the area i live in or keeping my identity as private. I had no other symptoms since then but about 2 weeks ago i had a flu, which progressed into otitis media and broncitis, but cured after treatment with amoxicillin.

I appreciate any comments or professional medical advice.

[evenflow1121]

No one has ever gotten HIV from kissing this includes people with chapped lips, bad oral health, bad gums, canker sores ect. In 25+ years not one, so you dont have to worry about that. Kissing will never transmit the virus.  There is one case on the internet from 1997 and both people had engaged in unprotected anal sex, so go figure, and that case was never proven, again I only say this to you in the unfortunate event that you have already started to do the unthinkable googling **** about hiv online.  

No one has ever gotten this disease through kissing, and that includes french and deep kissing so relax.  Even if both of you had sores on your mouths, there would at most be what is called a "theoretical risk", but since we are more concerned with actual risks in the real world, the answer is no, you can not ever catch this disease through kissing.  Your saliva carries dozens of inhibitors that render the virus inactive.  Remember HIV needs a specific setting in order to be trasnmitted, kissing just doesnt provide that setting no matter what you may have had in your mouth that day.

Second no one has ever gotten HIV from RECEIVING oral sex, not one.  Giving Oral has a very very very minute risk, but receiving in itself has no risk.  You dont have to test, so relax, and your symptoms are not ARS related at all.

[ECN44120]

If you cannot confront your fear take a plane to europe or asia and test there. only to calm your fears not becouse you needed.

[worried826]

Youre not at risk.

[snippets69]

Sorry man...that should read "kissing", not killing...laughing...

Only test to relieve your anxiety if you can't let it go, but you don't have HIV.

[snippets69]

Jessie... The chances you got HIV from that single encounter of receiving oral and killing are almost non-existent.  When I say that, I mean 1 in hundreds of millions. Don't spend another minute of your life worrying about this man.  It's not worth it.

[jaz22427]

Your mentioned symptoms are not even near to the HIV related still to erase as other friends here advise do get tested to put rest to all these doubts.