Hi…here is my story, I had unprotected sex about 6 years ago and it was really risky since I saw some blood on my penis (menstrual or loosing virginity I don’t know)…and that was my only time being at risk from HIV (I am sexually inactive) and I can assure that I’ve never been exposed to HIV since then….I didn’t really care about it at the beginning (I just confirmed that I have no HIV by checking my lymph nodes after few weeks) but now I started to worry about it again, because now I know that not everyone get the acute early symptoms of HIV….so I developed severe anxiety worrying to death that I might be infected with HIV…I saw the late symptoms of the second stage of HIV but I had none of them…but with time I started to feel them one after the other…I had burning tongue (witch maybe erythematous candidaiss ) but after few weeks it went away and then I started to notes that I have too much scales on my face and behind the ear (even though I have dandruff since I can’t even remember and scales behind the ears and some around the nose) but they looked more sever to me so I thought about seborrheic dermatitis..also I started looking for swollen lymph nodes around my body and I found one on the back of my neck (very small can’t be seen, but you can since it and is not tender nor painful) and one in my armpit which seems to be a swollen lymph node to me which is also not tender nor painful and I can’t really tell how its shaped.. So I decided to undergo an HIV test (they took a sample of vinous blood) and they told to come back the evening of the same day and it was negative thanks god.
But now I am still worried if the test was a false negative…!
My questions are if I countered HIV 6 years ago will I at least observe some minor changes in my health? Or will it be an absolute asymptomatic? The symptoms which I’ve mentioned can they be related to anxiety? And can I really trust the test even though it was rapid one, and start living a normal life?