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Is it HIV or just anxiety of having HIV?...

So I had a drunken mistake and slept with a guy unprotected. Granted it was like 2 pumps in...no ejaculation! But it wasn't but a couple days if not a week I got "flu-like symptoms". (Also granted its flu season) I became nauseas! Within a month I only threw up once. Im not sure if I had a yeast infection...considering I was having problems before the sex. I've always had problems with periods. And problems with fatigue! And have acid reflex problem...so idk if that really the cause of the nausea! And its like the more I read about symptoms, the more I have...and its freaking me out!  A month after I go sore throat
I have yet to develop a rash...but I did get some red slightly irritating pumps on my public hair. But now I have none of the symptoms except for the still nausea (which is possibly just my acid) and now my I have random sharp pains on my cervix and my joints hurt more than usual (I also have had joint pains before the encounter) and sometimes my muscles ach....mostly when I hold my phone up....  
And no pain during (prtotected sex)  
Its been 2 and a half months since.  
I don't need to hear "go to the doctor" I've got an appointment, its just the waiting is killing me!! And my anxiety is acting up and I'm continuing over thinking...
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Symptoms are never used to diagnose HIV. As it's been already 2 months and a half, if you go for a combo ag/ab test it will be accurate, or if you want to wait for the 12th week after exposure, any kind of ab test will be accurate too.

All the best.
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