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HIV Transmission with ARS

Good day. I had an awkward night with a sex worker last September. We had French kiss ( I had a cavity in my teeth and I do not remember whether there was obvious blood or not in her mouth) , rubbing my penis (unprotected) on her vagina without inserting and 3 times protected vaginal sex with her  as long as I remember the condoms were intact. Starting point of awful days was at 29 days after exposure by getting a cold-like and maddening anxiety. Day by day, I was finding new symptoms (as I thought). I felt fluctuation pains inside of arm’s muscles. Moreover, I was a little bit feeling cool on my both hand until I wore a jacket which somehow disappeared them from days of 42 to 48. At 42 days after my risky action when I thought I was HIV positive, my 4th Gen HIV Elisa test came out Non-Reactive. I could not believe the test result. I assumed that something goes wrong on my body not to produce enough antibody in order to be diagnosis by test. Further, I went to the same Lab (a private lab in Iran) to retest at 12 weeks mark which again was Non-Reactive through 4th Gen Elisa. After that, I started thinking that definitely the Lab's Technician was not master to conduct the test although he told me he was experienced about 2-3 years in immunology diagnosis departments. I could not help thinking myself until 200 days when I went to another lab to retest because of my killer anxiety regarding unreliability of last couple tests. The new Lab uses ECL method which is fully automated diagnosis screening method. Again came out non-Reactive. I just got calmed down for a while. After one month, again anxieties came into my mind that may be they did something wrong. Of course, most probably my worries are somehow due to obsessions. Now, I would like you to assure me whether my exposure was risky?  Was my teeth made French kissing risky action for HIV transmission? Were my ARS related to HIV or not. Thanks a lot      
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@RubyWitch and @BeStrong May please you comment on my question? Thanks alot
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You are clearly hiv negative, you don't have hiv, sounds like you suffer from ocd, see a therapist to work this out. Good luck. Also ars symptoms don't happen one after another, it comes all at once in 2-4 weeks and leaves  in 2 weeks or less.
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The rubbing at best is a theoretical risk.
Something a doctor generally would not test for hiv.
The problem is your anxiety. Even if you had an actual risk you tested conclusively negative.
4Th generation tests are excellent because if you failed to produce antibodies,(so unlikely that would be the case)  the test also looks for a specific antigen.
You do not have hiv.
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