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Sound like HIV?

I was very stupid and had unprotected receptive anal sex with a man I do not know, but get the impression he sleeps around a lot. He didn't ejaculate inside me. Terrified that I now have HIV as I experienced light flu symptoms two weeks after for around 5 days, then a light non-itchy rash on my stomach 3 weeks after for about 3 days.
I had no fever, chills, night sweats, ulcers, joint/muscle pain etc. Just a runny nose/sneezing and the rash. I will get tested anyway but does this sound bad or am I just being overly anxious? It was flu season around the time I got the flu symptoms.
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About your symptoms, ARS is the first stage of an HIV infection, is the body’s reaction to the infection. Some HIV positive people, but not all of them, reported that around 20 days after their exposure they had fever, sore throat, rash and flu (not cold) like symptoms, all of those came together, or within a few days of difference and lasted for a few weeks. As you see, the same symptoms are present in many other illnesses and not everyone had them, so, we can’t rely on them to diagnose HIV.

You're doing the right thing by getting tested.
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