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What's the chances I have HIV and am not just paranoid?

I engaged in what I guess is "high risk sexual behaviour" by having unprotected anal sex with another male who was a relative stranger (I was the insertive partner) about a month/month and a half ago. Since this sexual act I have experienced a fever, urinary burning and what may have been oral thrush, though I also may have just been over analyzing my tongue, it did look whiter than usual but it looked nothing like what a google image search pulls up if you type in "oral thrush". I'm not too concerned but the internet keeps telling me I have HIV whenever I search any of  the symptoms I have experienced and I did have unprotected anal sex with a stranger not that long ago. Am I just connecting dots that aren't really connected or do you think it's very possible that I have HIV?
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If you continue to read the internet it will make you insane.You will  read "to much" info and you will convince yourself that you have HIV.You will identify all the symptoms and more...!be careful because it will make you vert anxious.However you need to get tested because you have taken risk.Wait 3 months so you will be able to get a more conclusive resultYou can test before but the results could be false..
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You can not use symptoms to diagnosis HIV. Test 3 months after the encounter for a conclusive result and be smart and use condoms.
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