Welcome to the Forum. In preparing to answer your question I also reviewed your interactions on the HIV Community Forum and agree with the advice given there. As pointed out, outside of a monogamous relationship, a licensed brothel will provide some of the lowest risk partners one might encounter. These women are tested regularly and condom use is the norm.
Your symptoms are those of virtually any systemic viral illness including the flu or, far less likely the ARS. The rapid flu tests used by most doctors detect only about 50% of flu infections and many other non-STD viruses can cause similar symptoms., that is most likely what you had.
In your situation and with your level of anxiety and guilt, a 30 day HIV test is reasonable. At this time well over 90% of persons who acquired HIV 30 days ago would have positive tests and the proportion would be considerably higher if your symptoms were indeed the ARS. Thus when you get you negative test results as I anticipate they will be, your risks will then be somewhere in the 1 in 100,000 to 1 in million range. that should provide you with close to complete confidence that you did not get HIV.
Hope this helps. EWH
Dr. Hook thank you for your reply. Today, I managed to call the doctor's office, as the past two days i've been unable to sleep. I told a nurse that I was desperately trying to find out my results. She told me to hold, when she came back she said "Dr said your results came back 'alright,' but to keep your appointment in 2 weeks." Exasperated, I asked her what 'alright' meant, and she continued to repeat verbatim what she had just said, with no elucidation and not using the words your results are negative or positive. I don't know how results are typicall disclosed, and I don't know if this was innuendo for "we're not really allowed to disclose results over the phone, but by saying 'alright' i hope you get the hint and just make it back here in 2 weeks, in other words your negative." On the other hand, my fear is that this 'alright' was used to psychologically assuage me for the time being until my appointment in 2 weeks when i would be counseled on my positive status.
Can you please shed light on this matter? Thank you for your time again.
oops i've made a mistake it was not "alright" in that sense, it was "all right."
You are being paranoid. Ethically and practically, if your test result was positive the docotr would infomr you as quickly as possible. I would assume that your results are negative. EWH