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HIV risk from deep kissing?

I engaged in open mouth kissing with a girl at a bar that I didn't know very well. My gums bleed when I brush and I'm worried about potential infection. I kissed the girl maybe 5 times throughout the night. The next morning I woke up paranoid I could have gotten HIV. What if she wasn't aware she had HIV and her viral load was high. Around 8 days after I got an irritated and red throat along with a stuffed up nose.  Also, A day or so latter, I noticed a slight area of red blotches on my lower neck and upper chest. Around day 12 I got cramping pains in my thigh muscles. Thes pains went from my hips down the posterior muscles of my thights. Mainly felt this when sitting. have never had pain like this (could this be rhabdomyolysis from acute HIV). Also, I have read that leg pain is a common symptom with acute HIV. I have read everywhere that there is no risk from kissing. However, what if there was blood present. This girl was from San Francisco mission area which has a higher concentration of HIV. I am worried to death I had an exposure. Lastly, I did feel very tired during this period of time and I swore my neck, armpits and groin were hurting or achy. Could all of this be stress and anxiety or should I truly be worried? I have since gotten back with the one girl I've been with for the last six years. She is clean and I worried to begin being intimate again, since I don't want to infect her if I have gotten HIV.  
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Hello,
Please, don't be ridiculous!  You cannot contract HIV by any form of kissing, even if your gums were bleeding.  We know that saliva neutralises the virus and in any case you would need to be the one coming into contact with a significant amount of her blood, and not the other way around.  Anyhow, this is irrelevant, kissing is not a way of HIV transmission and therefore there is no need for you to be concerned or even get tested, regardless of her status.  Your symptoms are totally unrelated.
Best wishes,
Dr José
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Would it be safe to continue having unprotected sex with my girlfriend of 5yrs. The incident I previously explained was during a few week break we took. Also, why do you say symptoms are totally unrelated. The sore throat, headache, stuffy nose, posterior thigh muscle pains all seem to match ars symptoms. Also, they occurred during the window period for ars.

In your opinion, should I test for HIV?
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Does this include French kissing?
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Does it make any difference if I have a receding gum about 4mm on my lower front tooth. This area doesn't normally bleed. However, part of the tooth root is exposed and it does get tender and bleed slightly.
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What would cause the thigh muscle pains like this. I have never had pains like this and coincidentally they all happened within that ARS window period. I have also read that leg pain is common?
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I also have gingivitis. I worry since occasionally I press on my gum and a small amount of blood will show on the paper towel. There has only been one reported case to the CDC for open mouth kissing HIV transmission and I would feel horrible if I was number two.
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