Red Bumps on lower body?

Flu symptoms, small red bumps over body and itchy vagina after unprotected sex. Could it be HIV?

• I am female and had sex with a male 11 days ago. 2 days after we had sex, I started feeling flu like symptoms coming on. I had a sore throat, fever, body aches and pains and a blocked/runny nose. The next day I was feeling extremely sick with a high fever, abdominal pain, vomitting (which quickly passed), blocked/runny nose, a very sore throat and I noticed small red bumps which looked like pimples started to appear on my arms. The next morning I woke up with a few extra bumps on my legs, back and neck. I had abot 15 in total. They were a little itchy. I also had a very itchy vagina. I went to my doctor and he told me that he thought I had a viral infection and the small bumps on my body were 'bed bugs' from the hotel I had been staying in on holidays over the previous days. The flu symptoms passed along with the bumps but now I have a very strong cough and am still left with a runny nose. My vagina is still very itchy. After searches on the internet, I have found that these symptoms are similar to those of HIV. I am very worried, but my rash wasn't as severe as the pictures look. What do you think?

• Answer:

  Although having unprotected sex does put you at risk for HIV and other sti's, these are not symptoms caused by HIV. Two days after sex is absolutely WAY too soon to expeience symptoms. The average time to seroconversion is 21 days, or three weeks. After this period is when you would receive ysmptoms if you were in fact infected... Though many people never get any symptoms at all of the disease. For this matter you are fine but please always use condoms for your safety an get yourself tested in 3 months to be sure. Unprotected sex not only exposes you to HIV but many other diseases. Your itching may just he a yeast infection, but as I said the possibility to contract other diseases is there. Good luck