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ARS?NEED some help

Hi, again, i've post a thread about my handjob massage(with possible foreskin cut) previously, the answer i got it is no hiv, but what i worry about is:

after the massage 2-3 day, i got cough, and feverish feeling. after 1-2 days, I cough yellow or green phlegm, the coughing last about 1.5 week long, and feel very tired and feel my face is a little red or hot with feverish feeling.

the symptoms is not 24 hours,it is occasionally, usually in afternoon and evening last about 0.5-2 hours, it's not bed ill type, so i'm still able to work though not very comfortable.

BUT !! 2 days ago. i think it is the excat the time after massage 14 days. i sneezing & fell very tired / cold all day, and getting worst in evening, i rush to check my body temperature, the under armpit temperature is 36.3C~36.9C,Oral body temperature is 37.2C~37.5C(I check several times each way). and i have a sleep, after this day, i feel lots of better, but still have some cough occasionally.

what i am worried about is timing, so the 14 day is excat 2 week, when i search the fourm, they say usually the ars is appear in 2~4 week, is the typical ARS?
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I don't recall your other thread but if you were told that HIV does not transmit through a hand job, that is correct.  The only ways adults get HIV is from unprotected vaginal or anal sex (penetration required) or sharing IV drug needles.  Air and saliva inactivate the virus.  Hand jobs just aren't a way that people ever get HIV.  So, you do not need to worry about that and you do not need to test.

You sound to have a viral infection. When we get these, they can turn into a bacterial infection.  The body produces more mucus in the airways when we cough to help lubricate it.  It's a natural response. But it can get trapped and then become a bacterial issue. If you get a fever see your doctor for antibiotics.

But none of that is related to HIV or your sexual encounter unless the person who gave you the hand job had a virus and coughed on you.  
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"unless the person who gave you the hand job had a virus and coughed on you. " do you mean i can get HIV exposure from some one coughed? i can't recall whether the girl was coughed or not.
i'm only coughing very a little  green phlegm & no fever/ tired feeling right now, but i will see doc tomorrow
This answers all of your HIV questions, and if you can think of any more just reread about the 3. You had zero risk therefore  testing is irrelevant to your situation because you had zero risk. HIV is a fragile virus, which is instantly inactivated in air and also in saliva which means it is effectively dead so it can't infect from touching, external rubbing or oral activities. It doesn't matter if you and they were actively bleeding or had cuts at the time either because the HIV is effectively dead.  
Only 3 adult risks are the following:
1. unprotected penetrating vaginal with a penis. Only the head needs to be covered, so if that happened it is  protected and there is zero risk
2. unprotected penetrating anal sex with a penis. Only the head needs to be covered, so if that happened it is protected and there is zero risk.
3. sharing hollow needles that you inject with.
The only way to get HIV is if you did one of the 3. The situation you describe is a long way from any of these 3.
Even with blood, lactation, cuts, rashes, burns, etc the air or the saliva does not allow inactivated virus to infect from touching, external rubbing or oral activities. This HIV science is 40 years old and very well established, so no detail that you can add to your encounter will change it from zero risk. Because of all the research statistics, doctors have calculated the risk from what you describe to be less than that of being hit by a meteor, therefore no one will get HIV from what you did in the next 40 years of your life either.
If you didn't have one of the 3 then you are just worrying about your own hiv theory - which is unrealistic for you to think that can become reality - so you should move on back to your happy life instead.
You were told on your other thread that you had no risk, so I have no idea why you are starting over again on this one just because you got a cough. i am sure this is not your first cough so treat it like all the others instead of trying to create hiv theories that make zero sense. No one got hiv from someone coughing on them either, or people would not let their kids out of the house.
Your problem is not disease, it is fear of disease so consider therapy so you can live a normal life.
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Hi my friend. You had no risk here. Everyone here will tell you symptoms can’t be used to diagnose. You had a common cold. Going to those places there are a lot of common germs. You got sick. Anxiety has kicked in. You check every part of your body. I’ve been there.  Hiv is not an issue for you.
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