{"id":20179,"date":"2022-07-12T10:13:39","date_gmt":"2022-07-12T10:13:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=20179"},"modified":"2024-08-26T14:35:09","modified_gmt":"2024-08-26T14:35:09","slug":"am-i-experiencing-side-effects-3-weeks-after-pep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/20179","title":{"rendered":"Am I experiencing side effects 3 weeks after PEP?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

After 3 weeks it is not likely that your symptoms are being caused by PEP. The half life of Acriptega is not long enough to remain in your body without a side effect until 3 weeks – you would have experienced this during your course of PEP.<\/p>\n

Your symptoms are not suggestive of seroconversion. Tingling can be caused by a number of things – it can even be normal. Have you been able to speak to a doctor about these symptoms?<\/p>\n

It is possible that theses are being caused by stress.<\/p>\n

Testing negative twice and using a suitable combination for PEP within 72 hours means seroconversion is not likely. Do you know the type of test? Was it a 3rd or 4th generation test?\u00a0<\/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":"

I had sex with a random person and the condom broke few minutes before I came. I pulled out when I was about to cum. I told this person to do her HIV test and she did 2 tests with a home test kit and the 2 results were different, one negative and the other positive from the picture she sent me. <\/p>\n

Immediately I saw this I called a helpline concerning HIV and PEP. I was advised to go to the nearest pharmacy to get PEP which I started within 36 – 48 hours after exposure which was on the 7th May 2022.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s being 4 weeks post PEP now. On the 3rd week after PEP. I developed prickling feelings all over my body, my back, chest, legs, hands and face. Now on the 5th week. Because of this I did an home test for HIV which both were negative, but I still wasn\u2019t convinced due to these prickling feeling all over my body after PEP. I went googling one morning and googled all day and immediately I developed a bitter taste in my mouth and loss of appetite which is resolving itself now. And I also had a little cut on my finger nails from cutting my nails and has refused to heal after days it happened.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t know if this is the side effect of the medication or not . Or if this may be symptoms of seroconversion. The PEP medication I use was Acriptega.<\/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-20179","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\/20179","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=20179"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23882,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20179\/revisions\/23882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}