{"id":18871,"date":"2021-12-24T15:50:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-24T15:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=18871"},"modified":"2024-08-26T15:20:25","modified_gmt":"2024-08-26T15:20:25","slug":"does-pep-delay-seroconversion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/18871","title":{"rendered":"Does PEP delay seroconversion?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi, how are you doing?<\/p>\n<p>PEP does have the potential to delay seroconversion.<\/p>\n<p>As PEP works similar to medication used to manage HIV, PEP if unsuccessful can delay seroconversion.<\/p>\n<p>This is why testing a minimum of 4 weeks after PEP is required. Seroconversion can occur 1-3 weeks after the course ends. Only 80% of those who do seroconvert in failed PEP will experience classical symptoms e.g., fatigue, fever, headache etc.<\/p>\n<p>Five weeks after finishing PEP would be later than expected if this was really HIV. Swollen lymph nodes can arise from a number of infections, not only HIV. Is this symptom being managed by a doctor?<\/p>\n<p>The combination you have taken can be consumed with or without food. This would not have impacted how well it worked as PEP.<\/p>\n<p>This links includes info that will answer other questions on 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>Josh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi, I had an exposure in early October. <\/p>\n<p>I took PEP (TDF + FTC + DTG) after 5 hours of the exposure. I did not accompany the doses with meals, I took them alone with water or some drink. Can this interfere or reduce its effectiveness? <\/p>\n<p>Does PEP delay seroconversion in case of failure? At 5 weeks after finishing PEP swollen lymph glands in both armpit.<\/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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-peppepse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18871","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=18871"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23711,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18871\/revisions\/23711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}