hiv exposure, please help

[george4488]

So what brings me here is about four days ago I had sex with a transexual sex worker. Needless to say I was pretty drunk and have never done anything like this before. So I gave her oral with no condom there was no ejaculation of any sort. As I read this is a no risk situation as you put in an older post. Then I had anal sex with her where she was receiving. During that time the condom did break. We felt it break and immeditaly stopped and put a new one on. About 15 hrs after this incident I started to get a headache and feel hot.My temp is pretty normal as i've been checking highest 98.4. I've had muscle twtiching some diarrea, and a real bad headache that seemed to finally subside to day which is five days after the incedent. Could I have gotten hiv are my worries legitamte. I can't stand waiting and decided to not to do a pcnr test. and get my first oral swab test at three weeks. then again at four or five weeks. Also what do you they mean by open cuts because I have psorasis and have dry skin. And later after I got head with protection after the anal sex I noticed I had a skin tear just below my head. It started to burn for about five or ten minutes as I was leaving but at the time I just brushed it off.Since the encounter I've head a on and off persistant headache, muscle twitching, feeling hot, little bit of diahrea, and stomach and gut pains.  Can you please tell me what my risks actually where and how worried I should be?

[nursegirl6572]

You need to STOP testing so much!!!  And no, an oraquick is not a DUO test, it is an antibody test.

What's going to end up happening, which we see ALL the time...is you're going to test so much that you're going to be unlucky enough to end up with a false+, then your anxiety will be through thre roof.

You need to address the anxiety, not testing every week.  That's only going to fuel your anxiety about this.

Overall, due to the brevity of the exposure, it's not an extraordinarily high risk to begin with.  Chill out, get yourself engaged with life.  You can take the DUO at 4 weeks, then your follow up antibody test at 3 months to be done.  If you really continue to be anxious and have the urge to test, you could do an antibody test at 8 weeks, which would be highly unlikely to change.  Do NOT test anymore than that!  Even THAT is a lot, considering that you've already testing excessively.

[george4488]

can someone please tell me if an oraquick test is a duo test where it tests for anitbodies and antigens? I went to the website and they do not state weather it is or isn't

[george4488]

update: 19 day oraquick negative.

[george4488]

but, they test for viral loads or the virus. Ten days I should have tested positive if I was experiencing ars, right? If the symptoms I was feeling was due to ars,right? So the symptoms I am having are not related to ars? Which still doesn't change the fact that I need to test at 12 weeks to be conclusive. I just want to know if symptoms i'm feeling could be ars or something else. I'm trying to  book an apointment right now with a dermatologist.

[Teak]

PCR-DNA tests are not diagnostic tests for diagnosing HIV.

[george4488]

if I was experiencing ars symptoms the dna test would of came positive, right? I've been noticing differnce in skin since about the fifth day and slowly on going.

severe acne, looks like pimples and black heads. I think I got a new mole a small one also. they are on face under arms arms and groin. and white bumps in mouth.