{"id":19140,"date":"2022-02-03T22:25:42","date_gmt":"2022-02-03T22:25:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=19140"},"modified":"2024-08-26T15:11:10","modified_gmt":"2024-08-26T15:11:10","slug":"can-i-stop-pep-early","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/19140","title":{"rendered":"Can I stop PEP early?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi Leo, how are you doing?<\/p>\n<p>Stopping PEP early might reduce how effective it is at working. As such it would not be recommended to do what you are suggesting, especially at day 21. Stopping at day 26, like as suggested in this <a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/12010\">post<\/a> is not likely to cause harm and does have some benefit.<\/p>\n<p>Have you considered PrEP? On-demand dosing does not require daily meds.<\/p>\n<p>This can also stop you needing PEP.<\/p>\n<p>This is a link to using <a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/prep\/on-demand\">on-demand PrEP<\/a>.<\/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>Hello, I am currently on a 28 day course of PEP. I am curious as to if I can stop early to keep a few pills of each, for if this ever happens again (it was hard and took FOREVER to get this prescription). I was thinking of either stopping at day 21 or day 25. Any feedback would be greatly appreciated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7,31,55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adherence","category-all-topics","category-peppepse","category-stopping-treatment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19140","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=19140"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23930,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19140\/revisions\/23930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}