First of Teak, Liz and the rest of you moderators- God bless you! you are like angels on the web.
Straight to my concern : I am a very healthy ( until recently ) guy who is 25 and who travels a lot. During my very recent travels to Bangkok( about 6 months ago), i stupidly went to this massage place and had a massage which lead
twice. Little that i know of the risks, i did this crazy thing again in Dubai ( exaclty 74 Days ago) and then went to China on a business trip afterwards. When i came back from china ( 7 weeks after my last exposure) , i started having the weirdest feelings that i never had before like weakness, back pain and aches, shoulder
,nausea. Agian stupidly enough, i started googling my symptoms and ended up with ARS all over the internet. Ever since, i can't eat , can't sleep more that 4hrs a day ( lots of nightmares tend to woke me up). I didn't have any headaches or fever or rashes during this ordeal . I am scared to death to get tested for any STD or HIV because i never ever had sex before and these are my only encounters since i was born. Please shed some light on my first and last mistakes of my life.
p.s My colleague with whom i went to china is also having some weird symptoms like fatigue and weakness.
When such things happen, it's very hard to let go.It's the coincidence that makes it hard.
So you think i should just let go of it? no testing needed after all those symptoms?
Oral sex is a zero risk for HIV. You had no exposure, NO RISK. And your symptoms are not worrisome of HIV anyways. ARS always happens around 2 weeks, usually 10-14 days, and the most common symptoms are fever (101+), sore throat, and skin rash. More than 70% of people get three of these symptoms at the same time. Your exposure was just unprotected oral sex which does not pose a HIV risk. I just wrote some information about ARS just to educate you not because i believe you have HIV. Stop worrying, get educated.
Today is 90 days past my exposure and i am freaking out again. I wanted to get tested to ease up my mind but it is getting pretty tense. What should i do please help?!
Thank you so much!.... it is just so hard... this forum and God are the only thing that are keeping me calm.I just feel a bit calm when i see the threads here. I came from a very conservative family that they don't even think that i know anything about sex. I am very sorry to trouble you guys here for my stupidity but i hope you will understand.