Question: Hello I am a 35yo male, who had sex with a professional. I did not have insertive sex without a condom, but I am experiencing symptoms which look like a seroconversion. I am unusually very tired and sleepy all the time, I don't have fever but had some chills, I have pain on random joints. I don't have diarrhea. About the lymph nodes is weird, I had a severe jaw ache, which was prediagnosed by a dentist as trigeminal neuralgia or TMJ disorder, I took carbamazepine a few days and that pain is gone now. I don't feel clear swollen, hard nodes on the mandible or neck, but it do feel puffy arround the front of the neck it and hurts were the nodes are supposed to be, sometimes. That pain goes on to the shoulders. Also I feel as if I have something on my armpits when I close them, they are puffy, I have pain along the great dorsal wing that ends of the armpit and have a clear and very localized pain 2 or 3 ribs bellow the right armpit, like a painfull node, the size of a small bean that hurts when I push it. A few days ago I took a certified pharmacy hiv test that appeared negative but later I noticed a dark faint shadow on the test line, which could be a faint positive. I contacted Mylan pharmaceuticals and they said it's almost for sure a negative. Almost... But with these symptoms I am confused and very scared...

Thank you for your answer. My concern, when I look at my symptoms, is that the condom have slipped without me noticing or something like that. I don't have fever, at all, although I fill chills and am constantly feeling cold, nor do I have diarrhea or skin rash. What concerns me most is the pain on the places where lymph nodes are supposed to be, and the feeling of those areas being a bit swollen. I have ocasional pain, not very intense, in the exact places where the nodes are. Under my jaw, in the neck soft tissue, along the leck muscles, on my shoulder blades, arround my armpit, and bellow it and arround my ears. I don't palpate any hard lumps, are inflamed nodes supposed to be firm? And on my armpits I feel like there is an object that keeps me from closing my arms completely, specially on the right side. As for timing, the test was made before the time window as passed, I made the test 2 to 3 weeks after the encounter and the usual window for testing is 6 weeks. And I have been monitoring the symptoms ever since. I also have a mildly sore throat, runny nose and persistent dry cough. I attach a photo of the test, one hour after it was made.

Thank you for answering. It's not just the neck, but also the armpits, arround the armpits. I'm trying to get that spirit of moving on with my life, but there is some evidence that won't let me. I attached the result again. Are enlarged nodes supposed to be a hard bump or just soft augmented masses?

Another attempt to send the photo of the test, so you can say what you think