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Obvious anxiety and fear over unprotected oral

Obvious anxiety and fear over unprotected oral

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 to an unprotected oral sex 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 burning,swollen lymph nodes under my jaw, white tongue,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.

God bless you all!
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HIV risk doesn't come from oral sex under any circumstances, thus you had no HIV risk. Whatever you're suffering now has nothing to do with HIV.
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Avatar_m_tn
Thank you for your fast reply.

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?
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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.
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Avatar_m_tn
Thank you for your comments.
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Avatar_m_tn
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?!
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Move along, you never had an exposure.
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Avatar_m_tn
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.
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