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I'm having symptoms. HIV from gay sex?

I've been having fatigue and light headedness lately and I'm wondering if it could be related to hiv? I'm a gay who does hooks up with guys I meet online fairly often. My risk encounters were:

#1 Oral sex giving and receiving. The guy ejaculated on my stomach. I went to the bathroom to wipe up the semen and stupidly wiped my penis hole with the same cloth that had his cum on it.

#2 Oral sex giving and receiving with another guy. I ejaculated in the guy's mouth but didn't let him ejaculate in mine.

#3 Oral sex and analingus with another guy. I didn't take his semen in my mouth, but I did taste his precum in my mouth. I licked his anus for several minutes. Brushed my teeth and flossed a hour or so before.

#4 Oral sex giving and receiving and anal sex where I was the top. The condom and lube. The condom did not break and remained intact.

Could I have gotten hiv from these sexual encounters with other males?
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Oral sex is not considered a risk for HIV. In the 40 years that HIV has been studied, they have repeatedly found that in relationships where one partner is positive and one is negative, and they only engaged in oral sex, no one ever caught HIV that way. This is due to the fact that human saliva considered a hostile environment in which the virus cannot survive, much less replicate. Therefore, if all you ever do is oral sex then it's highly unlikely that you'll ever catch HIV.
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