Hi all, per my last post I was taking your guy’s advice, and laying off the internet/ trying to fight my OCD thoughts… I was ok until I recently developed severe flu symptoms which I attributed to possibly being ARS. My symptoms began ~ 5 weeks after my exposure, I had a moderate fever (101/102), extreme chills, then a VERY sore throat and extremely swollen tonsils. I also have been experiencing diarrhea and vomited once. I was constantly spitting up this yellow phlegm prior to vomiting. I don’t have any sores/rashes, but the gum around a SINGLE one of my teeth is inflamed, no ulcerations. I went to the er the other day & they tested me for strep, flu, covid, all of which were negative. (This only worsened my anxiety). I didn’t want to have to post on here again; I don’t want to come off as bothersome or anxious/annoying, but these symptoms have been some of the worst I have experienced in years. It’s now day 6, no fever still sore very throat. My exposure was unprotected fellatio (me-female- giving a -male- oral, 3x same guy, he did not ejaculate in my mouth the first time, the other 2x I immediately spit out the remainder & ran to the bathroom to gargle with Listerine and check my mouth for cuts. Idk his HIV status, but he is very high risk, slept with 50+ people easily and doesn’t always use condom. My biggest concern is that he has an untreated, recent HIV infection due to his sexual history. I’ll likely end up test at 8wks… given these symptoms + exposure level how likely is it that you think I have HIV? Numbers/statistics are helpful to me. Any advice would be helpful. Many thanks. 

Hi Dr. Hook, thank you very much for your kind words and promptly response, it truly means a lot. The only other thing I wanted to mention was I noticed what looked like a small canker sore on the roof of my mouth and by my wisdom tooth (didn’t need to have mine removed), as well as what looks like a tiny whitehead pimple on the roof of my uvula right by my tonsil that is the most swollen/infected (right side). I have a history of canker sores since childhood, and normally wouldn’t think twice, but given the totality of all my other symptoms, I wanted to confirm whether you thought that this would increase the likelihood of my risk in your opinion? Or would you still say 1 in a mil? I am glad to hear I can take the test earlier than I thought, I plan on taking the rapid finger prick test  to avoid the agony of waiting on results, assuming it’s a 4^th gen test, would you say it would be as accurate as receiving a blood draw sample? Or more prone to false neg/pos results?