Hi everyone. I’m dealing with a lot of HIV anxiety and I’d like a realistic opinion.
Exposure date: March 22.
Exposure details:
I had vaginal sex with a condom. The condom did not break. It stayed on during the encounter, but at one point when I pulled out, the condom slipped/stayed inside the vagina. My penis came out, but it did not fully come out of the condom. The head of the penis and about one finger-length behind the head were still inside/covered by the condom. I pulled the condom back with my hand. There was no obvious condom tear or full unprotected sex.
Symptoms after exposure:
Around day 15–16, I had mild fatigue/malaise and body weakness. No fever. It lasted roughly about a day and improved after sleep. I vomited once around that time.
For the last couple of weeks, I’ve had mostly stomach/digestive symptoms:
Nausea, especially after eating
Bloating and fullness in my stomach
Lots of gas
Acid reflux / bitter or sour taste coming up into my mouth
Intermittent diarrhea, roughly every couple of days
Loss of appetite at times
Throat/mouth symptoms:
No real sore throat
No trouble swallowing
No fever
No rash
No swollen armpit lymph nodes
One tonsil/right side feels a little enlarged or noticeable, but it is not painful
No white pus on the tonsils
Some redness and small bumps at the back of my throat, like “cobblestone throat”
I also have a coated/whitish tongue, but I think I’ve had that for years
I sometimes feel the tonsil/throat area when drinking water, but it is not painful
Other symptoms:
Nasal congestion
Sneezing, especially at night
Symptoms seem worse when I go outside
Morning throat/tonsil feeling is more noticeable
Ear fullness since a flight
Drooling on the pillow during sleep, but that has been happening for about 1–1.5 months
Sometimes headache from the back of my neck to behind one eye
I know symptoms cannot diagnose HIV and testing is the only way to know. But based only on this exposure and symptom pattern, does this sound like acute HIV, or more like anxiety/reflux/allergy/post-nasal drip/normal throat irritation?
Please be honest and realistic. What would you estimate the risk to be?