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Worried about possible ARS

Hi everyone. About 23 days ago, I had several unprotected oral sex and protected vaginal sex with my girlfriend whom I hadn’t met after 2 months. I also had unprotected fingering in her vagina and rubbing her clitoris. But after fingering, I remembered my finger was cut previously but no bleeding during fingering. 2 weeks after the occurrence, I came up with some flu-like symptoms such as headache, little sore throat, stomach ache and diarrhea. The symptoms lasted for 1 week but 2 days ago exactly the same symptoms appeared. I am very anxious that if these symptoms are ARS? Am I in the risk of HIV? Do I need to test? Please help me    
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As it has been said, you didn't have a risk.  You can't get HIV from a cut on your finger but only from unprotected vaginal or anal sex or sharing IV drug needles.  Transmission has to take place INSIDE the body.  Air and saliva inactivate it. PLUS, it was your girlfriend who I assume you'd know if she was HIV positive or not, right? She wasn't a stranger.  Fingering is not a risk for HIV and you have no worries. Even if your finger was bleeding with dripping blood.   The ONLY kind of wounds you have to worry about are big enough, bleeding enough that you need immediate hospital care.  
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Thank you very much. Yes, she has been my girlfriend since about 6 months ago. Before we have had any sexual relationship, we both did HIV rapid test and we were negative. But what scares me is  that she went to her hometown for about two months and I' m worry if she was with another man during that period.
Can you explain which of the only 3 risks for HIV you think you had? Otherwise you are just making up your own science fiction theory, so it will be impossible to have a logical discussion about that because it is unrealistic for you to think that science fiction can become real.
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This answers all your HIV questions and if you think of any others, then you can get the answer if you just reread about the 3.
You had no risk for HIV so a test would be a waste of time.
HIV is instantly inactivated in air and also in saliva which means it is effectively dead so it can't infect from touching, external rubbing or oral activities. It doesn't matter if you and they were actively bleeding or had cuts at the time either because the HIV is effectively dead.  
Only 3 adult risks are the following:
1. unprotected penetrating vaginal with a penis
2. unprotected penetrating anal sex with a penis
3. sharing needles that you inject with. Knowing these 3 are all you need to know to protect yourself against HIV. The situation you describe is a long way from any of these 3.
Even with blood, lactation, cuts, rashes, burns, etc the air or the saliva does not allow inactivated virus to infect from touching, external rubbing or oral activities. Doctors have calculated the risk from what you describe to be less than that of being hit by a meteor, therefore no one will get HIV from what you did in the next 40 years of your life either. The above HIV science is 40 years old and very well established, so no detail that you can add to your encounter will change it from zero risk.
People cough on your lips and door knobs so flu is to be expected at any time for the billions of negative people like you.
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Thank you so much for your answer. It helps me to deal with my anxiety. But I put my finger inside her vagina over 10 seconds. My finger was cut, red and painful but no bleeding I’d seen. Had I a risk?
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