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About ARS symptoms

Hi. Can ARS symptoms be mild or they are always severe?
Several days ago I had stomach problems.
Not real watery diarrhea, but very rare stool.I was at trip and didn't have a termometer, but I felt I have mild temperature and  felt exhaused and had a headache. When I got home after 3 days, my temperature was 38.2 C that night  but only for a while. Tomorrow morning I had 37.2 and after that I didn't have high temperature. Two days have passed, my stool got better, but still not best. For 2 days I didn't have high temperature and today I have  37.4 . Also , outside is a heat.

As I had my potential exposure 23 days ago , I want to know if these could be symptmoms of Ars, and if they can be mild like this? ...or I just caught some stomach virus?

Thanx
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3149845 tn?1506627771
Hi, what was your exposure? HIV is never diagnaosed by symptoms only testing.
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A penis to anus touch during frottage and masturbation. It was a very accidental penis bump to my anus that happenned in a split of a second. I don't know if a part of his penis head entered.
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I'm sure you can feel if his penis had entered you. You had no risk.
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3149845 tn?1506627771
The risk is with insertive sex and from what your describing no insertion took place.If your concerned have a test 3 months post exposure.
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I guess so. But I t was a split of second and I felt his penis pointed my anus  But I don't know how far top of his penis could go for such a small time..And if there could be semen on top of his penis because he ejaculated hour before that.I want to note that there was no full penetration, or sex intention...

I know these questions can be dumb, and lots of people ask  (it doesn't happen to me for the first time)...I wounder if someone ever contracted HIV like that...
I am  scared because somehow I always have some health problems  after these kind of incidents , and I am very rarely sick...

Thanx
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I hear that all of the time (rarely sick) yet somehow people after mostly non-exposure have all these things they think are happening to them. Not HIV related though.
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Yes. I read in some answers of yours that symptoms can't be so mild, and they last 7 days or more?
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Thanl you both for your respones
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1-2 weeks, but you are sick enough where you would want to see a Dr.
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