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I am very lost and confused, HIV status

A couple weeks ago, I was diagnosed positive for Type A influenza(first time with flu). I had the typical worst case of every symptom, no appetite, fevers, I stayed in bed without moving for a week, nightsweats and headaches (the nightsweats and headaches happened a couple of days after all the other symptoms left my body), extreme EXTREME dehydration, no drive to do anything not even answer a call. I noticed one night that I had swollen lymph nodes (I believe that's what they were, they were tender balls on the right side of my penis area) on my groin just for one night, not too sure if that is a symptom of flu.  I was put on tamiflu and I progressively became better and then one day i couldn't leave the bed (about a week and a half in), the thought of getting up got me very dizzy and nauseas. I decided to go to my family doctor the next day who ordered a full physical. The doctor told me I was extremely dehydrated, so he took my blood, and gave me 3 bags of IV. A week later, the doctor called me and asked me if I knew my STD status, I told him confidently, I don't know my status but I am clean for sure as I am a very low risk individual. He responded by telling me that my blood test came back positive for HIV repeatedly (I'm assuming ELISA tests) and then he sent my blood to a lab in California whose tests are more accurate (I'm assuming Western Blot) and it came back indeterminate. I am so nervous that I've been shaking for 2 days because I am just simply confused. I have only had unprotected sex with one partner in my life who is 100% HIV negative and I've never been ever on the receiving end of anal sex and I've never performed oral sex, just received. I've never even had semen around any high risk areas on my body. However in the past 2 months, I have received oral sex from 3 guys who told me they were clean. One of the times it was very low risk as I did not ejaculate and the other I ejaculated in his mouth, but there was not an exchange of body fluid. Please some advice would be greatly appreciated I am very scared for my life.
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Your epic story is not totally clear but I believe you only had unprotected oral sex, so correct me if wrong.

HIV is inactivated in saliva and air which means it can't infect from oral which includes kissing. So those are 2 reasons you had zero risk. Double zero risk.
No one in 40 years of history got HIV from oral.  Even with blood, lactation cuts, rashes, burns etc saliva and air do not allow inactivated virus to infect, so you had zero risk.

There is an std forum you can get std answers on, including the fact condoms do not protect against all std.
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Yes unprotected oral sex, 1 partner with protected anal sex, 1 partner without protection but I am 100% sure he is negative.

If that's the case, what could be the reason for a ELISA hiv positive result and then indeterminate result. I don't understand why that would even come up in the first place if I did not have HIV at all.
I think you can get false positive but not false negative. You can hunt around this site and find some people who know  about this and inbox them to answer this thread.
"1 partner without protection" You mean for oral, otherwise maybe he should test?
A lambskin condom is not good protection though.
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