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Flu symptoms a common scenario.

It seems alot of people on this site whom have had unprotected sex are experiencing flu like symptoms (fever, fatigue, sore throat....) within the first week of contact. Why is this so? I am panicking because I have read that this is an early sign of HIV infection though usually occurs 2weeks and beyond.
Opinions would be greatly appreciated.
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Not in this forum. If you had unprotected penetrative anal or vaginal sex then you can obtain your conclusive negative test result 3 months post exposure.
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I wrote about it in another thread... But in short I had unprotected vaginal sex with a Balinese prostitute. I'm ****** paranoid.
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What was your exposure?
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Also if this was intact the body reacting to an infection then the related antibodies should show up in a blood test, is this correct?
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