{"id":24025,"date":"2024-09-02T21:44:30","date_gmt":"2024-09-02T21:44:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=24025"},"modified":"2024-09-11T08:47:42","modified_gmt":"2024-09-11T08:47:42","slug":"questions-about-hiv-testing-after-pep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/24025","title":{"rendered":"So many questions about HIV testing after PEP&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi there<\/p>\n<p>The Qs below are not clear but all came anonymously within a few days of each other, so are from the same person.<\/p>\n<p>They also seem linked to this Q&amp;A and the related comments below:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/23811\">https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/23811<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Please include your email if you would like to discuss anything. Any more anonymous emails about PEP will not be answered online.<\/p>\n<p>The short answer is that PEP is very effective. Symptoms while on PEP are not HIV. Testing is recommended 6 weeks after the last PEP dose in the UK, but other countries have different guidelines.<\/p>\n<p>Please see this link for 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>Q1:<\/p>\n<p>Sorry for asking this question! I would like to ask why the post-PEP follow-up instructions are getting shorter and shorter from 6 months to 4 months to 12 weeks and then to 6 weeks? while recovery and seroconversion after Pepe are generally unchanged compared to with the first studies on PEP. Please answer me why there is such a change?<\/p>\n<p>Q2<\/p>\n<p>Hello I have heard about testing after 6 and 8 weeks of pep but I don&#8217;t trust those instructions so I will still test myself because I have heard of people controlling the virus after treatment 1 long time.<br \/>\nMy question to you is if I am a post-treatment control, will antibodies be produced if the virus is not detected by viral load testing?<br \/>\nIf I am in control after treatment, at some point the virus will definitely recover, can I treat it with the pills I use for pep?<\/p>\n<p>Q3<\/p>\n<p>The guidelines from your country and other countries are just a lie to deceive people when pep has no clearly proven effect. It only prolongs the time for discovery. 6 weeks is a fear of a lie. Science has proven that if it&#8217;s too much, pep is useless and only prolongs the window. You guys lied to us.<\/p>\n<p>Q4<\/p>\n<p>Thank you for being on this website! but let me ask, is the window of time for someone who has used pep indefinitely? and if you have used pep, it can never be determined with certainty, right? ? Because there are actually documents that say that very early treatment from 2 or 3 days will lead to long-term suppression with no virus in the blood and no body infection. At some point the virus will appear. It could be 1 2 3 years or longer because it&#8217;s random.<br \/>\nIs the medicine for pep also the medicine for treatment?<br \/>\nI had to take 2 months of LTD, only 1 month apart, so I&#8217;m very worried and don&#8217;t know what to do. Please tell me when I will have to stop it?<\/p>\n<p>Q5<\/p>\n<p>Please tell me I have taken Pep seriously and was re-tested 8 weeks after the last dose of Pep using the fourth generation test. But now I have symptoms of inguinal lymphadenopathy. Is it possible to have symptoms? Is the symptom I have HIV after I tested after the recommended window?<\/p>\n<p>Q6<\/p>\n<p>Is it true that once I use Pep, the post-PEP test is indefinitely? How long do I need to wait to get confirmed results or am I always in a 50\/50 state because the virus must be in the blood to have antibodies? Can it be true that pep or arv strangely inhibit that<\/p>\n<p>Q7<\/p>\n<p>Can you tell me if there are cases of seroconversion due to Pep failure detected after 24 weeks? Are there still cases? Is testing for Pep after 6-8 weeks too early to make a conclusion?<\/p>\n<p>Q8<\/p>\n<p>Hi, can you give me instructions on the longest time I have to wait to get a conclusion after pep? Could it be from a few countries and from the first instructions?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi there The Qs below are not clear but all came anonymously within a few days of each other, so are from the same person. They also seem linked to this Q&amp;A and the related comments below: https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/23811 Please include &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24025","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\/24025","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24025"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24035,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24025\/revisions\/24035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}