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Alot of symptoms help

Okay this is going to be a little long but I really need advice/help. Okay so in January I had unprotected sex with 2 males and oral. Also in this month I had given oral to another female and another female I touched with my fingers in which had a fresh open blister. Now this female that I touched had hsv 2. I don't know if that virus entered my body but I recently had a herpes blood test igg/iga that was negative (after 5 months) but I don't know how accurate that test was. I also had a small lesion over in my vaginal area that the doctor said looked like a herpes lesion but she didn't do the swab test right so I waited til after 5 months for a herpes blood test that was negative. So I don't know if I had a lesion down there from one of the guys or if I could have gotten hsv2 throught the open blister. Well here is my hiv concern... About a month after my risk events I started to develop alot of odd symptoms much like oppurtunistic infections that some one with advanced hiv would have. For instance I first started to get pins and needles all around my body, everything would fall asleep easy and things have been getting worse. My lower back is always aching, I have blurred vision, numbness of head, white tongue, weakness in all muscles, no appetite,burning feet and hands,twitching all over body, ill feeling all the time and sensitive skin, constant white lotion like discharge that doctor said wasnt yeast, anal itching.. Is this typical of herpes? There's are other symptoms but those ones are bothering me most for 5-6knths straight now. I tested for hiv at 3,4,5,6 and 7 months after risk events and it was negative. My concern is that I'm scared the antibodies aren't being made because I could possibly have herpes ( even though herpes test was negative) ... I'm not the only one suffering from symptoms like these so I'm scared there is another type of sexually transmitted virus that's really horrible. The symptoms I'm experiencing are symptoms that somebody with aids would have so I'm worried that there is another more severe advanced hiv that I have and that alot of other people experiencing these same symptoms have. All my regular bloodwork is normal and I'm just sick of suffering with these chronic symptoms. No one is able to figure out what's wrong. I found online on a website called medhelp that someone said hiv can hide in your body for up to 10 years so I am very worried. Any advice or answers you can give to me will be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
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I think your mind is running ahead of things here. A HIV test is definitive at 3 months, particularly if it was a duo antigen/antibody test. The subsequent tests just prove it, no ifs or buts here. The HIV test is the most accurate test for any disease known to mankind. It is so accurate that the negative result overrules any symptoms at all. Scratch this as a cause.

Herpes testing is very accurate for HSV2 and a little less accurate for HSV1. Nevertheless you would have to have quite a severely compromised immune system to even begin contemplating herpes as causing all the symptoms you describe.

I'd really keep on to your medical advisors and keep looking for the true cause for the sake of your health.
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I only tested once for herpes at 5 months and it was negative.
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Hi, if yourve tested all these times for herpes and continues to come out negative even after 5 months then you dont have herpes.
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