{"id":18994,"date":"2022-01-09T19:37:09","date_gmt":"2022-01-09T19:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=18994"},"modified":"2024-10-14T09:19:40","modified_gmt":"2024-10-14T09:19:40","slug":"can-i-use-prep-as-pep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/18994","title":{"rendered":"Can I use PrEP as PEP?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HI, how are you?<\/p>\n<p>PrEP and PEP can contain the same medication. The difference is PrEP contains 2 and PEP uses 3. As there is a difference, there is no research to suggest you would have been covered for the delay in taking the full combination required for PEP. Though it is certainly a possibility that it did.<\/p>\n<p>How inconsistent were you with PrEP before this exposure? If you took daily PrEP for the two days before you had sex, then you don&#8217;t need PEP. Or if you re on event-based (2:1:1) dosing and took the double dose the day before, you also don&#8217;t need PEP. In both thee case PrEP will cover you.<\/p>\n<p>Do you have reason to believe this partner was HIV positive? This link will help to determine <a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/testing\/risks-for-transmission\">risk of transmission<\/a> on the basis of the type of sex you had.<\/p>\n<p>A test will be conclusive 6 weeks after finishing PEP. This will be a 4th generation antigen\/antibody test and will be 99% conclusive. No test is 100%. Any test prior to this may give a false result due to the effects of PEP.<\/p>\n<p>Please see this link for more information about PrEP:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/prep\">https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/prep<\/a><\/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>Josh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently had unprotected anal sex with an anonymous guy whose status I do not know. I am a gay male who bottoms and I am currently on PrEP. I was a little inconsistent with my PrEP before having sex with this guy. I decided to get on PEP just as a precaution, but I was unable to get the Tivicay until after the 72 hour period. I took the first Tivicay dose at about 90 hours after possible exposure. I am also experiencing anal bleeding which I believe is due to a haemorrhoid so I do now know if that was present at the time we had sex. <\/p>\n<p>I wanted to know if my existing PrEP (Truvada) is going to cover me for the time I did not have Tivicay. I think I doubled on my Truvada right after having sex because I was a little panicked. I was taking 2 doses each day until I got the Tivicay and now I am just taking one Truvada and one Tivicay. I also wanted to know how long I should wait until I go to get tested before I get retested for HIV. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,22,23,31,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-hiv-testing","category-hiv-transmission","category-peppepse","category-prep"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18994","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=18994"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23937,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18994\/revisions\/23937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}