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HIV exposure via cocaine straw? many symtoms.

Hello,

I have posted in here before, but I am extremely worried.  I shared a cocaine straw several times with a friend who is infected with HIV.  I believe if I did become infected it would have been in mid-December, 2007.

In late January-early February, I became extremely sick for a couple of weeks.  I couldn't leave my bed for a few days.  I was extremely dizzy.  I had a cough.  Flu-like symptoms, etc.
  
Now I have a rash on each side of my neck.  My tongue became yellow yesterday.  I have a bitter taste in my mouth.  No matter how hard I scrub my tongue, it stays yellow.  I've never had this before.

I don't feel right; something is off.
Your nose bleeds when you snort coke.  I was extremely drunk and I don't remember much about that night in particular, but I know we shared the straw through the course of several hours.  

I have some questions:
When should I be tested?
How soon do acute HIV symptoms occur?
Why is my tongue yellow with a bitter taste in mouth?
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Has anyone answered your query?
Is it possible to contract hiv thru sharing a cocaine straw with a hiv+ person?
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I know for a fact that I had cuts in my nose.  
During that time I had been snorting almost daily, and blowing blood out of my nose often.  
Even if she had not bleed onto the straw, could the levels of HIV present in the mucus of the nose directly put into my bloodstream put me at risk?
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