The way you describe the contact (protected) means that you are not at risk for catching HIV.<\/p>\n
The flu-like symptoms can be caused by numerous other reasons. It is a good idea to discuss those with your GP as he\/she may decide to prescribe something that will alleviate the symptoms.<\/p>\n
Testing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I recently had protected sex with a woman who I paid to have sex with me while on holiday in Brazil and am worried I may have caught HIV. A week (I think) after returning to England, I got what I thought was flu-like symptoms but was told by my doctor that it was a viral condition. I looked on the internet for symptoms of HIV, some of which I have been experiencing. I am now freaking out. The only comfort I have is that there seems to be an illness going around as some of the people I know have been experiencing some of my symptoms such as muscle aches. I had blocked sinuses when I left for Brazil, so maybe what I’m experincing now, stems from that?…I have been thinking about having a test but am frightened of what I will find out. What shall I do?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,22,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-hiv-testing","category-hiv-transmission"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24284,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255\/revisions\/24284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}