{"id":18820,"date":"2021-12-16T11:09:14","date_gmt":"2021-12-16T11:09:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=18820"},"modified":"2024-08-26T15:22:07","modified_gmt":"2024-08-26T15:22:07","slug":"does-pep-cause-testicular-pain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/18820","title":{"rendered":"Does PEP cause testicular pain?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi, how are you?<\/p>\n<p>Sorry to hear about your pain.<\/p>\n<p>What does your doctor say about this. Neither Truvada or dolutegravir have been associated with testicular pain. Although pain has been included as a possible side effect of emtricitabine (in Truvada) this is not in a specific region. The likelihood of this being caused by PEP is also unlikley if it gets worse when you get an erection &#8211; that sounds like a physical problem.<\/p>\n<p>PEP will be most effective if you take it every day for 28 days.<\/p>\n<p>If PEP is the cause of this pain, remember that PEP is not long-term and the course will soon be over.<\/p>\n<p>Please talk to your doctor about this.<\/p>\n<p>Please see this link for more information about PEP:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/factsheets\/pep-faq\">https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/factsheets\/pep-faq<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Send in any other questions you may have,<\/p>\n<p>Josh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m having mild pain in both testes while on PEP, especially after an erection. I&#8217;m taking Truvada and dolutegravir.<\/p>\n<p>Is it possible that the PEP might be the reason behind the pain? The pain is leading me to question if I should continue taking every dose of PEP. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,31,37,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-peppepse","category-sexual-health","category-side-effects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18820","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\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18820"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23952,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18820\/revisions\/23952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}