HIV risk from giving unprotected blowjob?

[swebb5195]

Hey so I gave an unprotected blowjob to a MTF trans woman around 2 weeks ago. Straight away afterwards I had a funny taste in my mouth and a tickly throat. The throat pain went away after a couple of days but came back the other day much worse. I also have an occasional dry cough. My throat looks red and inflamed. She did not ejaculate into my mouth but there may have been some pre cum.. I’m aware the risk is supposedly low, however I’ve been worried because a lot of things online say that one of the first signs of acute HIV infection is a sore throat and dry cough. I’m a bit more worried than I would be due to the fact I have a habit of biting the inside of my mouth. Not to the extent where there’s blood or cuts, just the outerskin from the inside of my mouth so I’m worried it might have got in through there. The BJ only lasted for about 10 minutes. I’m massively worried even though I know I probably shouldn’t be, because I never usually do this sort of thing. If it’s not that I just wonder what the throat and bad taste in my mouth is because I can’t remember having these symptoms before. Any help or guidance on this will be greatly appreciated. Thankyou!

[AnxiousNoMore]

Your situation involves personal contact with an object in air  (penis). You will be happy to learn that you had no risk, because you can't get hiv from personal contact except unprotected penetrating vaginal or anal, neither of which you did and you didn't share hollow needles to inject with which is the only other way to acquire hiv - there are only 3 ways to get hiv. Analysis of large numbers of infected people over the 40 years of hiv history has proven that people don't get hiv in the way you are worried is a risk.
HIV is a fragile virus in air or saliva and is effectively instantly dead in either air or saliva so the WORST that could happen is dead virus rubbed you, and obviously anything which is dead cannot live again so you are good. Blood and cuts would not be relevant in your situation since the hiv has become effectively dead, so you don't have to worry about them to be sure that you are safe.
There is no reason for a person to test when they are safe. The advice took into consideration that the other person might be positive, so move on and enjoy life instead of thinking about this non-event. hiv prevention is straightforward since there are only 3 ways you can become infected, so next time you wonder if you had a risk, ask yourself this QUESTION. "Did I do any of the 3?" Then after you say "No, I didn't" you will know that it's time to move on back to your happy life.
No one got hiv from what you did during 40 years of hiv history and no one will get it in the next 40 years of your life either.  You can do what you did any time and be safe.
hiv docs can't diagnose from symptoms so no one here pays attention to them therefore you shouldn't either.  See doc if you have an infected throat since it has nothing to do with hiv. Disease doesn't follow a schedule so you shouldn't be trying to correlate current health issues to past personal experience.