Speakerbox17
08-01-19, 23:52
Hello, just a paranoid 25 year old worried about his health here! I had a couple of questions about the H.I.V. Virus and was hoping that someone with a bit of expertise or knowledge could relieve me from my own thoughts. So, long story short, my girlfriend left town to visit her family, and while she was away, I purchased a sex toy in order to alíviate my needs. It is the only sexual activity I have had since my girlfriend left, however, when reading instructions on how to clean my sex toy, I read that S.T.Ds can be transmitted through sex toys. The only thing though, is that I purchased my toy from an adult store, which means that I took it of the box and out of the plastic bag that enclosed it inside of the box. However, my paranoid mind got me thinking that that, H.I.V, which is probably the most popular S.T.D. known by ignorant people (like myself), could have somehow ended up within this toy that I purchased. So about three or four weeks later, I got a runny nose and a swollen throat, and was sneezing quite a bit. Right after that, I got diarrhea and stomach pains along with ocasional mild night sweats, AND right after that, I started feeling muscle tenderness (not pain) around my groin area and my armpits as well. All of which, according to what I read online, are symptoms of H.I.V! I never got a fever though. The other symptoms are all now gone, and the only thing that worries me now is that my tongue has turned slightly white and is a bit dry. Now, I would really, really, really appreciate it if someone would tell me that I am simply being paranoid, and that the symptoms that I described were caused by another illness or maybe even by the power of my paranoid/anxious/skeptic mind. Please, someone tell me that my mind is simply playing tricks on me and that it is not possible to contract H.I.V. from a recently purchased brand new sex toy! :(