{"id":20327,"date":"2022-07-27T11:00:21","date_gmt":"2022-07-27T11:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=20327"},"modified":"2024-10-14T09:20:01","modified_gmt":"2024-10-14T09:20:01","slug":"should-i-postpone-a-romantic-evening-after-missing-my-medication","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/20327","title":{"rendered":"Should I postpone a romantic evening after missing my medication?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi, how are you doing?<\/p>\n<p>As you are undetectable, 3 days is not likely to cause risk to your partner.<\/p>\n<p>Most HIV medication works for longer than 24 hours &#8211; the active amount in your body remains for a while longer. This means your medication is still going to work for a bit more time.<\/p>\n<p>Being undetectable means HIV is very well suppressed. This also means that it will take time for it to rebound and be detectable &#8211; this is usually about a week after stopping medication.<\/p>\n<p>3 days is not going to be a long enough time for your viral load to increase significantly. This means there is no risk to your partner. If you remain concerned using a condom will prevent any risk of transmission.<\/p>\n<p>Josh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been undetectable a little over a year now. The pharmacy got lines crossed with my doctor and I haven&#8217;t had my meds for 3 days. My boyfriend and I had a romantic evening planned. Should I postpone it? If today is my second dose after the three day gap?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5,7,9,23,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-access-to-treatment","category-adherence","category-all-topics","category-cd4-and-viral-load","category-hiv-transmission","category-sero-different-couples"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20327","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=20327"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25145,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20327\/revisions\/25145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}