{"id":6690,"date":"2012-04-18T11:24:02","date_gmt":"2012-04-18T11:24:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=6690"},"modified":"2024-08-26T15:46:34","modified_gmt":"2024-08-26T15:46:34","slug":"why-do-i-suffer-from-upset-stomach-after-taking-pep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/6690","title":{"rendered":"Why do I suffer from upset stomach after taking PEP?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PEP (Post Exposure Prophylaxis) is the term for using HIV drugs after a potential exposure to reduce the risk of HIV infection. PEP usually involves taking a combination of three HIV drugs for 28 days. Very early use of HIV drugs may stop HIV establishing infection.<\/p>\n<p>Because PEP involves taking HIV medicine, this can also cause side effects including upset stomach. However, as with any symptom this is something you should tell your doctor about.<\/p>\n<p>Please see this link for more 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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was exposed to HIV in March 2012 after vaginal sex without a condom. I am now on PEP. I tested negative twice, last test ELISA 4th generation in early April 2012.  I still have no symptoms of but have an upset stomach for the last three weeks. Could this be HIV?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6690","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\/6690","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6690"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23986,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6690\/revisions\/23986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}