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Contracted chlamydia from insertive oral sex but worried about HIV

Hello.  I am a 40 year old man, and two weeks ago I received unprotected oral sex, and also performed oral sex on a woman.  Two days after the encounter I experienced sore throat and fever, and a day after that I began experiencing painful urination.  About five days after the encounter I noticed my right groin lymph node being quite swollen and occasionally tender.  10 days after the encounter I decided to go get examined at a clinic for gonorrhea and chlamydia, having heard that painful urination is a symptom of both of these diseases.  The clinic noted to me that 10 days was too early to perform the swab/urine tests, but did prescribe me Rocephin injection and 1g Azithromycin for treatment in the likely event that I did in fact have G and/or C.  Two days after the antibiotics, my painful urination completely resolved, and I notice the groin lymph node has been decreasing in size.  At this point I have accepted that I did in fact contract at least one of these diseases, and will be abstaining from unprotected oral sex in the future.

However, at this point I am concerned about the possibility that I contracted HIV as well from the encounter, since it appears that my partner had another STD already, which I have heard increases chances of transmission.  I know that oral sex is usually highly unlikely to transmit the virus, but am I much more likely to have contracted it since I contracted another STD from the same encounter?  I know symptoms are not supposed to be used in any meaningful way for diagnosing HIV but the only things I have noticed are the sore throat two days after my encounter (which was diagnosed by urgent care as an upper respiratory infection and successfully treated with Amoxicillin within a couple of days), and occasional brief pulsing pain in the neck and armpit areas where lymph nodes might be.  

I am planning to test for HIV once the timing is right but I just wanted to get some idea of the likelihood that I may have contracted it from this encounter.

Thank you for your advice.
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Just reread the advice on your other thread that you had no risk from oral, and move on from trying to do a doctor's job diagnosing disease. Self diagnosis won't work since you don't have any medical training so you are making mistakes just trying to interpret what you have read about odds. Anything times zero = zero.
https://www.medhelp.org/posts/HIV-Prevention/Insertive-unprotected-oral-encounters-12-and-3-days-ago--have-fever-and-sore-throat/show/2741076#post_13250928
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Thanks for the response.  I know it sounds like a repetition but I was worried that this encounter was different than the past due to me actually contracting a separate STD at the same time.  I will try to heed your advice.
Zero times anything = zero.  Here is an example - if there are no cars on the road and you jaywalk then even though jaywalking in heavy traffic is high risk, it carries no risk when there are no cars.
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