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Sore throat, sore tongue, not painful weeks after oral

I had oral sex with a male prostitute 4 weeks ago and last week started getting a sore throat. I feel a bit achy, tired but still have energy. I have a sore throat but it's not painful at all, maybe tender, and under my tongue as well. What made me think it was weird is that I don't have any green mucus, which I always have with a sore throat. There's lots of red veins in my mouth too and looks like a white patch underneath my skin, not on top like strep or fungus. My lymph nodes above my adams apple feel a little bit large, but I'm not sure. My throat is a bit swollen mid way through too, but again it doesn't hurt. It looks exactly the same since I noticed it a week ago. I'm scared because I don't know what it is. I'm going to go to the doctor soon, but any info now would help my anxiety soooo much. I just uploaded pictures but I'm not sure how to post them here. Please help!
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I did the same thing, but it got bad for me (it could have been worse but it's still pretty bad to me). You should ask for an HIV viral load test just to get yourself more calmed down (I know it worked for me). And let's start using condoms, all this worrying, it really isn't worth it... you'll be fine, keep us posted.
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We don't look at picutres, we can not diagnosis people.
Syphilis testing is 6 weeks and herpes is 3 months.
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Were you able to view the pictures? Would I be able to test for all those at this point since I may or may not be infected or showing symptoms?
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Run a low risk for some STD's...gonorrhea, herpes, syphilis, HPV. An oral STD like gonorrhea doesn't really show a symtpoms.
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Yes really dumb I know. It was oral both ways and we're both male.
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So you gave someone oral sex? Without a condom?
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