{"id":26929,"date":"2026-10-31T00:59:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-31T00:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=26929"},"modified":"2026-11-02T08:33:11","modified_gmt":"2026-11-02T08:33:11","slug":"do-i-need-to-extend-pep-if-i-have-occupational-exposure-while-taking-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/26929","title":{"rendered":"Do I need to extend PEP if I have occupational exposure while taking it?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi there<\/p>\n<p>For cases of occupational exposure, we recommend people follow medical advice provided by their employer and\/or local guidelines.<\/p>\n<p>i-Base are not doctors so we only provide information.<\/p>\n<p>In this case, your PEP would also be acting as PrEP for both sexual and occupational exposure and also acting as immediate PEP. There are no research studies in such a specific and uncommon situation. However, the advice you were given is likely to be overly cautious on the basis that additional meds won&#8217;t harm you, so there is little to loose by extending the course.<\/p>\n<p>This isn&#8217;t the same as there being an evidence showing you need to extend PEP or that doing this will have any impact on the risk.<\/p>\n<p>This link to info on PEP covers the situation after having sex on PEP:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/factsheets\/pep-faq\">i-base.info\/qa\/factsheets\/pep-faq<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anxious new grad nurse here from the US. <\/p>\n<p>I had my first HIV+ client and after giving them their insulin , while taking the needle to the sharps bin it accidentally sticked me. On the day of the stick i was already on day 8 of PEP (personal reasons). <\/p>\n<p>I contacted occupational health and did all the protocols. I informed them that I had already been on PEP for 8 days and was not advised to extend the course past the 28 days. Has anyone else been through something similar ? <\/p>\n<p>Should i recontact the provider ?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adherence","category-all-topics","category-peppepse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26929","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=26929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26929\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}