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Possible exposure to HIV

Hello,
I am a 22 year old male student who recently had sex with a 20 year old female student and the condom broke.

We had sex friday night at around 3 am. Met her at the bar.. 5 minutes into the sex.. i noticed the condom broke so I immediately stopped and left.

Her HIV status is unknown.

44 hours after the encounter i started to have a sore throat.. for the next 3 days after that Monday, tuesday and Today I had a sore throat, feelin achey,tired and a headache. just common flu symptoms.. I did not however have much of a fever with my temperature being at 36.5 and i did not get a rash. I was wondering if this could be a very early sign of ARS.

-Thanks
Chris
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is that a 100% fact that it couldnt show up that early?? i just need something to calm my nerves before i get tested in 3 months... also im all better today wednesday night.. so my flu/cold/ARS symptoms only lasted from sunday night till wednesday night  and sunday night was 48 hours after possible exposure
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ARS symptoms come up only 2-4 weeks post-exposure, not that early. But since the condom broke, get yourself tested at 3 months post-exposure to get a conclusive result. Symptoms are no reliable indicators of HIV.
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No it is not ARS. ARS if one has them come 2-4 weeks post exposure and last 1-2 weeks. You can test 3 months post exposure to obtain your conclusive test result.
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It was just vaginal intercourse and i am a heterosexual male
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