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can i get HIV

I am a boy of indian origin and had protected vaginal sex with a FSW of South african origin. After that she gave me unprotected oral sex (she sucked my penis). I saw no blood and it lasted for about a minute. she had no visible mouth sores on lips. She looked healthy. after about 12 days i realised what i had done and that i could catch hiv. I got all anxious. Had headache for entire day. my neck, face forehead felt hot to touch. In the office (air conditioned) i felt cold. chills running through my spine. My hands and legs were cold. I couldnt sleep easily at night. two days after that i decided to get tested. on Day 14 i took p24Ag + Ab test. I saw p24 remains high during the first few weeks and causes seroconversion. and after seroconversion it becomes undetected. the test was negative. but i continued to worry as i saw on google its not conclusive. after waiting for 5 more days i took the same test on day 19. still p24 and antibody both were megative. Head and neck feels hot to touch. today i came back to and decided to check my temp, to my shock it was 98.6. i rechecked several times but it didnt go above 98.9. i realised my hands were cold. which i why i felt hot. i have canker sore (not cold sore) inside my my lips. i have dry hands and dry and cracked lips. my mouth feels dry. my throat feels dry and scratchy but no pain at all. i get red skin on my hands sometimes. but it goes away. i feel do not feel strong and healthy physically. please help me through this time !! tell my what you think about my tests how good are they ?
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i tested with combo test at 29 days and the result came back negative!!
i am guessing its conclusive from official tests now???
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You never had a risk for HIV.  ALL of your tests will be negative, and conclusive, since you never had a risk for HIV.  It was official from day 1 - you DO NOT have HIV.  Please find a way to move on from your event or seek therapy if you are having a hard time doing so.
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i also have slightly swollen lymph on neck and ear. no where else
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You had no risk and your test was a waste of time. You can't get HIV when you used a condom.
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 adult risks are the following:
1. unprotected penetrating vaginal
2. unprotected penetrating anal sex
3. sharing needles that you inject with. Your situation 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. The above HIV science is 40 years old and very well established so there is no detail that you can add that will make any of your encounter a risk for HIV.  No one in 40 years of HIV history got HIV from the situation you are concerned about so it is unlikely that it will happen in the next 40 of your lifetime either.
All your symptoms are probably your mind playing tricks on you because you are afraid you are dying - which you aren't. You need to stop Googling for death cold turkey and forget this event because you had zero risk. Since you have no medical training, it is doubtful that you know how to check your lymph anyway.
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