{"id":18959,"date":"2022-01-05T15:54:31","date_gmt":"2022-01-05T15:54:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=18959"},"modified":"2024-10-14T09:19:41","modified_gmt":"2024-10-14T09:19:41","slug":"starting-pep-after-72-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/18959","title":{"rendered":"Starting PEP after 72 hours."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi, how are you doing?<\/p>\n<p>As you started PEP after 72 hours there was no benefit to the course. It is a good sign that you have tested negative but after a course of PEP 6 weeks needs to go by before the result is conclusive. This is because PEP can prevent the natural course of HIV, impacting on the result.<\/p>\n<p>There are other factors that change your risk. Being the &#8220;top&#8221; will reduce your risk of HIV. This <a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/testing\/risks-for-transmission\">guide<\/a> will show you how your risk changes in regards to the type of sex you had.<\/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>If you have another question do get in touch,<\/p>\n<p>Josh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had unprotected sex with a male &#8220;bottom&#8221;. I didn&#8217;t know that he was HIV positive. After around 60 hours he informed me that he is HIV positive. Unfortunately lack of information meant I started  PEP after 72  hours. I completed the full 28 days course of PEP. 13 days later I went to a private clinic lab for an &#8220;HIV 4th generation test&#8221;. I got a negative result. Should it be ok? or there is a window period for the &#8220;HIV 4th generation test&#8221;.  Please answer me I am still worried.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,22,23,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-hiv-testing","category-hiv-transmission","category-peppepse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18959","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=18959"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23940,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18959\/revisions\/23940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}