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First off, thank you all so much for all you do - your service is not only noble but extremely necessary in continuing to educate people about STDs / HIV, etc.
My situation / recent "realization" has brought on a ton of stress in my life and due to this I can't tell if I'm suffering from true symptoms or if its all stress induced.
Recently I was feeling under the weather with vague symptoms so I went to Google which kept pointing to HIV in a lot of my searches. This has scared the **** out of me as there is one, and only one, situation that could have put me at such risk. Until I did further reading, I really didn't think what happened posed much risk, if any, at all! Feel like my own stupidity will come at one of the biggest costs I can imagine.
Maybe I'm over-analyzing but I becoming nearly disfunctional! Although I'm feeling better I still fixate on every little thing that doesn't seem "right" about my health and keep re-playing that incident over and over in my head.
In a panic I confronted my friend who tells me he believes he's "A OK" and that what we did was so minimal I need to get a grip. However, he didn't specify that he's been tested recently and knows for a fact he's ok so that only has me spiraling further in my anxiety.
So my rather long-winded question to you is, how high of a risk do you think that incident was? I don't think I could live with myself if I've caused harm to my boyfriend. I don't know what to do anymore. I'm mentally crippled by this whole thing (impacting my work, relationship, etc) and don't know what else to do!!