Trying to stay optimistic...

[livinginconfusion]

I'm a gay male and I ran into an old flame I dated 5 years prior. It was after a New years eve get-together and I ended up being the receptive partner in protected anal sex and received unprotected rimming. I was not under the influence and kept checking to make sure he had the condom on. I even looked and made sure it was still covering his penis when he took it out. He did not ejaculate, by the way. To my knowledge there was no condom failure; but I received rimming for 10-15 minutes.

A couple of weeks after I had a sinus cold, but I'm pretty sure it was just a cold because I work with about 8 people in my department and 6 of us got sick all at once. No fever or sore throat jus sinus and headache; some body aches. The sex happened January 1st... now a couple of months later quite suddenly I have this mysterious PAIN all over my body. All of my joints and inside my arm pits and in and around my neck (and my head) are killing me. I got nervous because I know there are lymph nodes in your arm pits and in and around the neck area. They don't look swollen, but I have had constant aches for the last week or more even in my wrists and fingers.

I'm not a hypchondriac and rarely complain about pain so for me this is serious. I haven't experienced fever, sore throat, diarrhea, or vomiting. Did I put myself at risk for HIV by not using a condom for rimming? Did the condom fail and I neglected to notice? Should I wake the couple of weeks til 12 weeks and get tested or test now?

[Teak]

You never had an exposure to HIV.

[livinginconfusion]

So rimming has no risk? My encounter was therefore protected?

[argentineguy760]

rimming no risk
i shoul dhave noticed
you do not need testing