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This might me a silly question but I been driving myself crazy for almost 3 months. I had unprotected sex with my ex. At the end of July this year. I got tested 2 weeks later for stds and Hiv. Everything came up negative. I started to feel sick after 3 weeks. I had a cough. My throat was sore. I was itching all over my body. I started googling my symthoms and it said they were to hiv. I got so depressed thinking this is what I had. I got fungus on my skin. Basically everything I was feeling made me think I had aids. Still till this day I keep coughing and it's hard to swallow. I was tested for strep. Etc it was all negative. At my 2 month mark after the exposure I did 2 test. One at my doctors that took a week to receive and on the same day I went to a clinic that did a rapid test that took 20 mins and it's a 2-4 week window period. Both test came up negative. Basically what my question is what if this person contracted hiv a week before he slept with me. This might be a silly question it idk but is it possible for the results to still show negative if he just contracted it a week or so before he slept with me? Idk if I am even making sense. I just have not felt like myself in 2 months I feel horrible mentally and physically. I didn't have a fever or anything. Just swollen lymh nodes. Cough that has not gone away. I feel tired weak. Sore. I feel my symthoms just progress. Please help to put me at ease.
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Your previous thread mentioned you were waiting for results and the advice was that test would prove your status.
You have now tested conclusively negative 2 months after your exposure. There is nothing else in your post that is relevant to your negative HIV status, since symptoms aren't used to diagnose.
If you feel that you have a sickness that needs medical attention you should see your doctor because it has nothing to do with HIV.
It is natural to feel mentally horrible if you spend months of terror under the premise that you are dying.  

Everyone posts about their self-diagnosed ARS here, but none in my time have actually had ARS, so try to accept that and relax and move on from self-diagnosis.
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