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Please help,Hiv thoughts are killing me please any information that ease my anxiety

Hello,please I want a solution for my anxiety,I had a protected blowjob but  the lady placed the condom with her mouth while my penis  had a small sore, now I am worried about the hiv or std exposure when I calm my mind that the protected oral has no risk regarding hiv. my mind is   shifting to another case scenario  that I have used her bathroom and maybe there is a semen left out from the other men and I accidentally exposed to it.
Can you guide me here please what should I do I can not do anything these thoughts are occupying me heads 24/7.pleae help me also after the exposure I've tested positive for covid19 and I have recovered after a week  while I read that hiv and covid19 share the same symptoms so should I have hiv test or what should I do.thanks for any replies
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Your situation involves personal contact with an object in air  ( finger, mouth, maybe blood, maybe semen etc. ). 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 with a penis, 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. Note that 2 of them require a penis and the third requires a hollow injecting shared needle - there are no OTHER 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 from hiv.
The other person's status is irrelevant when you have no exposure to live virus.
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Hello,thank you for explaining everything thing in details but you can guess now I have an OCD and whenever ever the thought is longer valid my brain is digging for another one just for the reassuring even if the mouth touch the head of penis without protection while placing the condom or touch the sore on it is that will not make a difference and no need for testing I can move on?
Thank you for your response
Since you didn't answer the above QUESTION I will do it for you. Answer> No there wasn't a penis in my anus during the blowjob and she didn't inject me while I got the blowjob so I should move on from thoughts of an impossible hiv infection.
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