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I am a 32 years old woman and I had a short term relationship. I had a protective penetrative sex with my partner, but myself and my partner exchanged unprotected oral sex and also he rubbed his genital with my genital without condom. After that by two weeks, I feel powerless and so tired, I have an upset stomach, and sometimes my head hurts, and it has been three weeks I feel like that.
I have also OCD so I feel very anxious about my health and have fear if I may caught HIV.
Please advise me.
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First, let me say that if you have ocd for real as in intrusive thoughts followed by a compulsion to seek reassurance, the worst thing we can do is to give it to you. You should engage in exposure response therapy which means you ask no questions, seek no reassurance and just be uncomfortable. The uncomfortable part is not giving into the ocd and is actually what makes it go away. You can read how to start working on treating your ocd through this method yourself and it IS the gold standard of therapy for OCD treatment.

One time though. I'll answer this question one time. Risks for hiv are the same as you've probably read here for EVERYONE. The risks are to have unprotected vaginal or anal (you didn't do that) or to share IV needles to inject drugs (you didn't do that either). Air and saliva inactivates the virus. Both are present during genital rubbing and oral sex. You had no risk.

Sorry you don't feel well but it has nothing to do with hiv. Perhaps it IS your anxiety telling you to get help with that.
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Thanks a lot for your valuable response!
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