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HIV from unprotected oral? (Or protected anal?)

I had a couple of unprotected oral sex encounters (me giving) 3 weeks ago. I didn’t swallow any cum but probably got precum in my mouth. I remember feeling like something was stuck in my throat a couple hours after the last time, but didn’t think it meant anything.

Jump forward to now, and I had unprotected oral and protected anal sex with a condom (me receiving, him pulling out to cum) with another guy 2 days ago. The day after I noticed a funny taste in my mouth and the feeling in my throat came back. I also noticed a white coating on my tongue (though this is something I’ve had for ages - potentially even before I’ve been sexually active).

Anyway I googled the symptoms (big mistake) and now I’m panicked that I’ve contracted HIV because I seemingly have thrush. I know the risk for contracting it via oral is low, and I’m pretty confident the condom didn’t break during the anal, but even the fact there’s a small possibility has me terrified.

I’m having a HIV test in a couple of hours (which I guess would show if these symptoms are linked to HIV?) and will test again in another 2 months time. But I’m still terrified something bad has happened to me even though I was relatively safe and took precautions. Does anyone have any advice for managing this worry, and if my fears are founded ata lll?
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You had no HIV risk and a test will be a waste of time.  Your self diagnosed symptoms are likely in your imagination.
HIV is instantly inactivated in air and also in saliva which means it is effectively dead so it can't infect from touching, external rubbing or oral activities. It doesn't matter if you and they were actively bleeding or had cuts at the time either because the HIV is effectively dead.  
Only adult risks are the following:
1. unprotected penetrating vaginal
2. unprotected penetrating anal sex
3. sharing needles that you inject with. Knowing these 3 are all you need to know to protect yourself against HIV. Your situation is a long way from any of these 3.
Even with blood, lactation, cuts, rashes, burns, etc the air or the saliva does not allow inactivated virus to infect from touching, external rubbing or oral activities. The above HIV science is 40 years old and very well established so there is no detail that you can add that will make any of your encounter a risk for HIV.  No one in 40 years of HIV history got HIV from the situation you are concerned about so it is unlikely that it will happen in the next 40 of your lifetime either.
You can't get HIV when you use a condom so you had no risk there either.
A test will be purposeless - you can get E coli from eating a burger but don't test for that, so no reason to test for something you can't have..
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