[Question #11944] I know it’s ARS and scared
11 months ago
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Hello experts
I’m really nervous and can’t face the truth
I think I had bad luck and got HIV virus
I had sex twice with Russian street sex worker in Dubai, she’s only visiting she don’t live there
I’m pretty sure I used condom that not broke (durex non-latex polyisoprene)
Penile-vaginal sex twice duration no more than 2 minutes and I didn’t finish
I didn’t think much of it until the scary part after 8-9 days I had sudden fever raised to 39.4 C with severe body aches
Went to hospital they only gave me panadol and sent me home
My temperature fall down to 37.9 and kept fluctuating for 3 days
Few days later I got cough last for more than three months felt like my throat scratching
Exposure was in last December I didn’t get a test until now!!!! Scared to do
I contact the girl and told her about my symptoms she said we used condom and she is clean but she didn’t got tested and she blocked me
I think I got classic ars in the right same timeframe even I used condom for vaginal sex
Is there any hope that I’m still hiv negative ?
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H. Hunter Handsfield, MD
11 months ago
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Welcome to the forum. Thanks for your question.
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It is very unlikely you have HIV and I am confident your test will be negative. There are several reasons.
First, even though street walking sex workers are at high risk for HIV and other STIs, you used a condom; and even without a condom, entirely unprotected vaginal sex has under one chance in 2,000 that the virus will be transmitted. Second, your symptoms are less typical for ARS than you seem to think. Fever and aching at 8-9 days could qualify, but ARS doesn't cause cough and doesn't clear up in only 3-4 days; and you describe no other typical symptoms (skin rash, enlarged lymph nodes). Finally, it might interest you that in the 20 years of this and our previous forum, with thousands of questions from people worried about a possible HIV exposure, nobody has yet turned out positive. You won't be the first; if and when it finally happens, it will be from a far riskier exposure and/or more typical symptoms than you report.
So I'm glad you have finally been tested for HIV; you should have done so back when you had the initial symptoms. But you can expect a negative result. Please return and let me know the result. However, I won't have any further comments or advice until then. In the meantime, I hope these comments are helpful.
HHH, MD
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