HIV/STD-related scare, Lyme/EBV or pure Anxiety?

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Hi friends, would like to hear from your experiences or insights.

I have had a sexual exposure more than 4 months back, since then I've done 7 4th gen HIV tests leading up to 12th week so I believe I'm in the clear of the typical strains of HIV. I have also done full STD screens (incl. Hep B/C) and I'm clear.

However, I have been experiencing severe symptoms as follows:
- Extreme fatigue (yawn a lot even after sleeping for long hours / early)
- Red dots (bleeding into skin) cherry angiomas looking
- Muscle twitching all over body, mostly legs now (mainly felt at night when I'm at rest)
- Blurry vision (comes and goes)
- Inability to hold in urine, bladder spasm, yellow and foamy urine (almost all the time)
- Dry lips, dry mouth, white tongue (despite drinking loads of water)
- Red-looking eyes
- Brain Fog / dizzy

Some of them still persist even until now.

These symptoms seemed to align with a lot of forumers relating to the Chinese HIV-like illness, or the "unknown virus" forum.

However, I do not have specific symptoms on any sexual organ, which is questionable. And I did not have any fever, or significantly enlarged lymph nodes; just feeling very dehydrated, blurry, brain-fogged all the time.

I notice that the forumers who are having these symptoms, like myself, all have a common denominator, that is, we all have had a sexual encounter prior to these symptoms. However, I notice that whilst there are some forumers who continued posting year after year on the same thread, many of the other forumers did not continue to find out the nature of their illness after a short while.

(a) Could this be attributed to their recovery from the illness (hence the lack of replies), or perhaps severe complications that we do not know of? Otherwise, it is quite weird how such worrying symptoms (as can be noted from the tone of their posts) does not have any follow-ups...

(b) I'll like to also ask if it is possible that all of the above symptoms arises from pure health anxiety or the likes of it? Or anxiety coupled with another bacterial/ viral infection?

(c) I also read that these symptoms are highly contagious in nature, with many forumers posting how they passed it on to their families, wives, children etc. In that case, wouldn't this /certainly/ overrule that it is a mental problem related to depression/ anxiety/ guilt?

Given that such posts have been on the internet for about 8 years, it really beats me why nothing has surfaced, and/or no significant updates have seen those who were "infected" with these symptoms back then.. Beats me.

Maybe it's all in the mind. Any thoughts? Appreciate your help!

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