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concerned herpes and hiv

In Nov 5, 2011 had  a unexpected meeting with CSW, received unprotected oral only for about 20 minutes, released twice in her mouth.  As I did not have a condom, I stopped at that and went home and washed myself about 30 minutes later.  Next day woke up and by the evening on the 6th, testicles red and burning, burning in the inner thigh area down 1/2 way to the knee, no fever, no sweats.  Saw Doctor on the 7th and he said symptoms too fast to be herpes infection or HIV.  He said I was likely having an anxiety attack.   On around Nov 12, my scrotum, and inner thighs felt like they were on fire and burning all the time.  Made it difficult to sleep at night. I would open my pants to the air to let them get some cooler air.  Around Nov 14th was waking up at night wih night sweats for a couple of nights and still had the burning in my thighs.  My face felt flushed sometimes and had this dry cough which would last for a couple of minutes in the morning when first got up that ended up leaving me short of breath and sucking for air.  Was not sick to stomach, was a little tired but not much but was only getting about 6 hours sleep a night due to work schedule.   Went to doctor on Nov 21st, prescribed Clotrimderm for jock itch as my inner skin folds were raw on both sides of my body at the upper thigh area.  Used it for 2 weeks seemed to get better, then around Dec 15th (6 weeks from event)  had to go to doctor again as was burning inner thighs again.  never had any sores or lesions show just general burning inner thigh almost down to the knees and warm lower stomach sometimes. Had cream again and used on all but my scrotum for a week or so Flared up again on Dec 29 2011 and used the cream until Jan 16th again and it seem to finally clean up my issue.  But now a couple of days later I have tingling and a warm feeling in my inner thighs down to my knees again. Never had a sore throat or fever that I noticed.  Never really felt run down.  If anything my concern for HIV is what is causing me to not feel like doing anything.  So my questions are:

1.  Is this HIV or Herpes, Doctors said no, but concerned.  I never had any sores. The tingling and burning is all that I have had, it is not itchy at all.
2.   I did not have herpes before, but if the CSW had herpes and gave me oral, is it morely lkely that I could have HIV now.
3. It is now almost 10 weeks since that event and I continue to have issues.  Symptoms seem to have come and gone during that period.
4.  Not sure if it is a coincidence, stress or anxiety, but it seems as if my sense of smell has gone neutral, cannot smell difference between anything, taste is ok, but smell seems to be gone. Peanut butter and cologne smell the same. Does this mean I have HIV as my body changes.
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Thank you for your reply,
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The overall risk from unprotected oral sex is very low in general. You've had no symptoms to make you think you contracted either hiv or herpes.  Your symptoms have from the gitgo sounded like classic fungal infection symptoms and you've had that confirmed a few times now when you were seen.  It's not unusual for it to take several rounds of treatment to clear up fungal infections and you might need to try a few different antifungal creams until it finally responds well and clears up.  go bottomless whenever you can ( around the house, not at work! ) - cool , drying air helps to discourage yeast growth.  

we don't recommend testing from oral sex unless there were obvious symptoms of infection. If you need the peace of mind, by all means get it so you can move past your fear that you contracted something from this encounter.  

grace
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