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Feeling scared and worried
So about 3 years ago I had sex with a sex worker protected of course . At first I didnt seem to care since everything was done carefully . About a year and a half ago , I had sex with another sex worker , again protected intercourse , condom never broke or fell off. Ever since my last encounter with the sex worker I have been worried and afraid thinking that maybe I might of caught something and in worst situation HIV . I went to consult a doctor and numerous of nurses and they told me it wasnt necessary to test for HIV since it was protected and i only tested for gonorrhea and chlamydia which they came back negative. But I have been very afraid and when I started looking at symptoms in google for HIV everything that happened to me started to freak me out , I've been barely sick , I've had rashes that lasted quite a while and that come and go, I have a ringworm on my upper thigh that's been there for like a month , my digestion feels wierd , I've had a crack on the corner of my mouth . Sometimes I get really small pimples on my fingers they come and go after not even 10 hours. All those things that are happening to me makes me go crazyyy and sometimes insane , I hate sex with all my heart , I have a girlfriend which I've only had protected sex but we dont do it anymore. Sometimes I feel like I dont have anything and I can go on like that for months but there is always that small trauma behind my head. I want to know how safe am I from HIV?
The doctors and nurses who told you to stop worrying about HIV were/are correct. You had no risk. You did not get HIV.
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But what about the rashes? What about that , it makes me nervous!
You clearly have anxiety and that is your health problem in this matter as it relates to HIV. Because your rash does not relate to HIV at all. You want to correlate it because of your anxiety. See the cycle here? Talk to your doctor about treating your anxiety and get the rash looked at. You are being irrational at this point and that makes life hard. Anxiety is treatable.
Yea I see , I will consult my doctor and thank you very much. God bless you
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