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am I xperiencing HIV early symptoms

I am a married South Asian colored man of 33 with 2 kids. As my wife just gave birth we hadn’t had sex for few months now. 2nd of last November I had this experiencing encounter with a guy. (The one & only such experience). He just put his mouth on my dick once. (At the time my dick had pre-cum). As soon as that I walked away as I had a bad feeling that what I was doing was wrong. That’s the only time I had sexual experience whatsoever with someone other than my wife. After that also I never had sex with my wife as she was not feeling well after the birth. At the end of the 4th week after that encounter I developed a sore throat (at the time our area was having a bad weather with heavy rain), which lasted for 4 days. That’s the time I realized about the thing I did with the guy. It started to worry me so much so that I could not stop thinking about it as I’ve seen in some internet websites that sore throat was an early symptom of HIV. Our worries about such things are much higher than the western societies as we live in a South Asian Nation.  After the sore throat was gone I had itchy feelings in my skin, mostly on my forehead, at the edge of my beard, on my neck, my arms. And next I saw small skin colored (a bit reddish) bumps (2 or 3) on my forehead, 1 or 2 on my neck and near my shoulders. Almost all of these rash bumps appeared after I scratched them. They were smooth and sometimes disappear in one place and appear in another place. My sore throat is gone but I am having these itchy feelings after 5 weeks of that encounter. Are these related to HIV early symptoms? Or are these rashes because of the stress caused by these feelings?
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Thanks it's quite  a relief! All Praise to God Almighty!
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Thanks for the reply
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Thanks for the fast reply. I am very much convinced with your answer and I also have faith in God Almighty. I just wanted to clarify about the itchy rash bumps and about the bit of fatigue I felt last night and the uneasiness of my mind.

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Kaalhu
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FROM THE HIV EXPERTS HERE AT MEDHELP:

"As you know from other posts about oral sex, our stance is that giving or receiving oral sex is not a risk for HIV.  Some others suggest that there is an appreciable risk of HIV from oral sex however, there are no convincing scientific reports which support these statements.  The presence of a burn in your mouth, or a sore, or ingestion of blood does not change this.  Still no risk an no reason for testing."  DR HOOK

"As far as HIV is concerned, there is no known risk of getting HIV from performing oral sex on an infected partner, even if that person's genital secretions get into your eyes or if you swallow"  DR HOOK

There is no debate (among experts) about the HIV risks associated with oral sex.  The risk is so low that almost nobody who cares for HIV infected patients has ever had a patient believed to have been infected that way.  Among experts, it's a semantic issue about using terms like "no risk" and "very low risk".  There is no difference between my or Dr. Hook's use of "low risk" and other experts' "no risk".
DR. HANDSFIELD

"And oral sex is basically safe sex -- completely safe with respect to HIV and although not zero risk for other STDs, the chance of infection is far lower than for unprotected vaginal or anal sex.  Please educate yourself about the real risks.  If you stick with oral sex and condom-protected vaginal or anal sex, you have no HIV worries and very little worry about other STDs. "   DR HANDSFIELD

"I am sure you can find lots of people who belive that HIV is transmitted by oral sex, but you will not find scientific data to support this unrealistic concern..."   DR HOOK

"HIV is not spread by touching, masturbation, oral sex or condom protected sex."- DR. HOOK

in the public HIV Prevention forum of MedHelp, TEAK and the other moderators maintain that oral sex in all forms is a zero risk activity. Would you agree with this assessment?  
I TOTALLY AGREE / DR GARCIA

The observation on thousand and thousand of observations is that HIV is not spread by oral sex (of any sort).  DR. HOOK

"With regard to the question you ask, I will repeat, as I’ve said more times than I can think- there are NO credible cases in which persons have acquired HIV through performance of oral sex- none!!.  The chance that you will be the first is ridiculously low.  You are more likely to be hit by lightening while reading my reply to you. DR HOOK

"HIV is not spread by masturbation, through oral sex, through kissing or other casual contact." DR HOOK

"There is no credible evidence that HIV is spread through oral sex, with or without the presence of cuts or blood in the persons mouth."- DR HOOK

"Oral sex. there is no evidence that HIV is spread through giving or receiving oral sex"- DR HOOK

"HIV is not spread through oral sex."  DR HOOK

"HIV is not spread through giving or receiving oral sex"   DR HOOK
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Oral sex is not a risk of HIV. Your symptoms are unrelated to HIV. You have no HIV concern.
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Their is really no clear way to answer this question but what we do know is that hiv symptoms can take years to develop and actually become noticeable. You are however in the perfect time frame to get tested, it's gonna be the only way you can get the piece o mind that you are looking for and at this time your result would be upwards of 98% correct. And the chance of contracting hiv through oral is less than 1%, never the less get tested and get the answer to your question
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