{"id":19766,"date":"2022-05-16T16:55:03","date_gmt":"2022-05-16T16:55:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=19766"},"modified":"2024-10-14T09:20:02","modified_gmt":"2024-10-14T09:20:02","slug":"do-i-need-to-extend-the-course-of-pep-after-having-an-exposure-midway-through","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/19766","title":{"rendered":"Do I need to extend PEP after being exposed midway through?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hi, how are you doing?<\/p>\n

You do not need to extend your course of PEP. This is because, as you have mentioned your regimen of PEP contains the drug combination used in PrEP. For this reason PEP will have been acting as PrEP in your body and prevent further risky exposures while midway through the course.<\/p>\n

You can finish your course of PEP when originally expected (when you get to the end of the next 15 days).<\/p>\n

I understand that you have said this is a rare occurrence but have you considered PrEP? This would prevent any further panicking if you have any future problems with condoms.<\/p>\n

Please see the link for more information about PrEP:
\nhttps:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/prep<\/a><\/p>\n

Please see this link for more information about PEP:
\nhttps:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/factsheets\/pep-faq<\/a><\/p>\n

Josh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hello. Here are the sequence of events need guidance:<\/p>\n

1. April 25th my condom slipped when I pulled out since I panicked, concerned my Doctor started me on PEP Truvada and Tivicay which was started in time (40 hours) on April 27th.
\n2. I have been on PEP for two good weeks and had a very similar incident, where the condom slipped again. I don’t know the person’s status is unknown. May 12th, this is quite a bizarre instance of occurring twice. I think I switched to a new condom brand.<\/p>\n

I have two clarifications here:<\/p>\n

1. Since I am on PEP and one of the medication Truvada is also used as PREP what are the risk here for me with given incident?
\n2. I am still taking PEP and have 15 more days of dosage left which will end on May 28th. So given that I am already on. The meds and the risk exposure of the issue should I just complete rest of my course and extend the PEP additional 2 weeks? <\/p>\n

NOTE: I have been very careful and these unfortunate incidents happened twice.<\/p>\n

Appreciate your guidance<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,23,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-hiv-transmission","category-peppepse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19766","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=19766"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23900,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19766\/revisions\/23900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}