HIV Help please

[alajeel87]

Iv been very stressed out recently because of this. a few months ago i had unprotected sex with someone whom i don't know their sexual history, i thought it was kind of rude to ask, but it seems maybe like shes sexually active. It was once and we only had vaginal sex. Within a few weeks, around one or two months later after the sexual activity, i got a fever that lasted around 2 or 3 days then went away. However, i also remember the week i got a fever someone in my class was very sick and kept coughing all over the place and had mucous tissues on his desk. i was working with him on a few projects, so i was in pretty close proximity with him. i looked up the symptoms of HIV and they said a fever is one of the main symptoms of HIV. I don't know if i have HIV or maybe i just got the fever from the person in class who had pneumonia. i am circumcised and from what i hear circumcision decreases the chance of getting HIV, and its also harder for HIV to transfer from woman than it is for a man to transfer to woman. BUT i also have the Herpes Simplex Virus (HSV). I'm not exactly sure if i do, but i do remember getting a small cold sore every few years when i was younger, and supposedly that is the main diagnosis of HSV. I probably got HSV when i was a kid from a classroom or sharing straws or kissing. however, i also read that HSV increases the chance of getting HIV. is that true? or am i mistaken.

Im very worried and i cant stop thinking of it, it was the only time i had unprotected sex in a few years. i got a blood test a couple months before the time i had unprotected sex, and was tested negative and healthy. then i don't know why after that i had unprotected sex. it was in the heat of the moment and none of us had condoms. I'm getting very worried and anxious, and making me keep reading more into HIV and its symptoms, and i get scared even more even at the littlest things that i link with HIV, like hair loss or flaky dry skin. little strands of hair has been falling off, and my skin is getting flaky and dry, and i keep thinking maybe because i have HIV or that i take showers in hot water and should change to colder water or because its summer and the heat dries the skin. iv been getting very sweaty at night recently, and these sound like symptoms of HIV, or maybe i'm overreacting and the stress is causing all this.

This will be the last time i have unprotected sex, or even sex at all until i'm married. this is probably the biggest and scariest moment of my life,

do you think maybe i have HIV or maybe i just got the fever from the kid in class with pneumonia?

[Teak]

It doesn't matter if you ejaculated or not, it is still a risk.

[sandra12r]

a test 3 months after the exposure will provide you with a conclusive result, symptom chasing will increase anxiety and thus make your symptoms worse

[alajeel87]

yes i know, i will be taking a blood test next week
but i would like clarification and reassurance, am i at risk?

and just to clarify it was unprotected but i didn't cum inside. does that lower my risk?

[sonemed]

get simple antibody test