Looking for some reassurance with my HIV test?

ok well about 5 months ago i gave blood for the first time while i was at college. in about early may i found out that there was some inconsistences and i had tested positive for one HIV test when screening the blood. with that tho i got a letter from red cross saying that they retested my blood and it turned out negative and i do not have the virus. i was told to get retested again at my doctors and i did a few days ago. i havent worried at all because of the letter and nobody around me has seemed worried.

i recently was kind of worrying because i looked at the symptoms for hiv. i got pretty sick with a fever and all for a couple weeks in january and i remembered a little swelling in my groin lymph nodes. ive never had any unprotected sex or used needles or anyting risky. should i be worried at all and trust what the redcross said in their letter or is there a chance they could have made a mistake when retesting my blood?

False positives are common specially in rapid tests. If it turns out positive, then other tests should confirm it. Most probably they got a false positive and they confirmed it with another test (more accurate test). It is very unlikely that they made a mistake on the second test. Expect your negative result and move on with your life.

HIV symptoms are very non-specific during the acute phase. There are literally hundreds of diseases that can present like HIV initially, many of them by far more common than HIV (e.g. influenza, common cold, mono, etc.).
Your symptoms mean nothing. You haven't had any exposure to the virus and that means you cannot have it. The test will only confirm that.

Given your admission to no unprotected sex of sharing needles, this obviously brings your likelihood of catching the virus almost to zero, unless you received massive amounts of blood transfusions 20-30 years ago.

False positives *CAN AND DO* happen. You should most likely be getting a negative result back in a week.

when a test comes up positive for HIV, it is retested and followed up with a more accurate test. If you retested negative, there is your answer.......Negative

well wait to see what does your results say