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Author Topic: PEP and 16 weeks 3 day  (Read 6709 times)

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Offline malron

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PEP and 16 weeks 3 day
« on: September 21, 2009, 07:19:56 pm »
sex with a prostitute and the condom broke,she has a sexual disease. Pep used for 28 days and did a test with 16 weeks and 3 days after the fact.
I to be contaminated?

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Re: PEP and 16 weeks 3 day
« Reply #1 on: September 21, 2009, 07:27:05 pm »
What was your test result?

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Re: PEP and 16 weeks 3 day
« Reply #2 on: September 21, 2009, 07:33:13 pm »

negative.

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Re: PEP and 16 weeks 3 day
« Reply #3 on: September 21, 2009, 07:34:22 pm »
Then you are conclusively negative..

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Re: PEP and 16 weeks 3 day
« Reply #4 on: September 22, 2009, 05:18:40 am »
mal,

As Rodney says, you are conclusively hiv negative. You tested at the correct time.

As a properly used and stored condom rarely breaks, please read through all three condom and lube links in my signature so you can use them with confidence.

Use condoms for anal or vaginal intercourse, correctly and consistently, and you will avoid hiv infection. It really is that simple!

Ann
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Re: PEP and 16 weeks 3 day
« Reply #5 on: September 22, 2009, 01:55:46 pm »
Ann and Rodney

I do not understand, most doctors say 6 months.

"(Check the archives!) These would recommend testing at both three and six months after exposure."

Dr. Bob

"The test that should be performed is a standard HIV serology: at baseline, at 3 months, and at 6 months. The PCR test (DNA or RNA) should be considered if there are symptoms of the acute retroviral syndrome.''


Dr. Gallant.

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Re: PEP and 16 weeks 3 day
« Reply #6 on: September 22, 2009, 02:30:15 pm »
3 months post the last dose of PEP is conclusive which you did.

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Re: PEP and 16 weeks 3 day
« Reply #7 on: September 22, 2009, 03:03:19 pm »
Why bother asking us what we think if you're just going to come back and tell us what you have gotten on another site? How many opinions do you need.

With the accuracy of all generations of tests today, getting a negative result at 13 weeks after having completed PEP is a completely reliable result.

Period.
Andy Velez

Offline malron

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Re: PEP and 16 weeks 3 day
« Reply #8 on: September 22, 2009, 05:53:13 pm »
Andy
I have searched several sources and you are the only one who speaks in 16 weeks (13 weeks after pep). I want to believe in you. I hope you're right.

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Re: PEP and 16 weeks 3 day
« Reply #9 on: September 22, 2009, 05:57:19 pm »
I don't know where you get the 16 weeks number. We always say 13 weeks AFTER the completion of PEP. If PEP is not involved, then 13 weeks after the risky incident.

The only exceptions for testing out to 6 months are when extensive IV drug use has been involved, organ transplant or treatment for an illness such as cancer, which can sometimes depress the immune system and delay a reliable result.

 
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Re: PEP and 16 weeks 3 day
« Reply #10 on: September 22, 2009, 11:14:45 pm »
Mal,

You were never likely to become infected following a condom break to begin with. With your testing history, there's NO way you are hiv positive. Get used to it. Keep posting about this low-risk, conclusive negative situation and you'll be quickly timed out. Don't know what I'm talking about? Then read the Welcome Thread before posting like you're supposed to.

You had a very, very, low risk, for which you should not have even been prescribed PEP. You have tested hiv negative at the appropriate time for a person taking PEP. You do NOT have hiv. You are conclusively hiv negative. End of story.

It's time you got on with your life.


Ann
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Re: PEP and 16 weeks 3 day
« Reply #11 on: September 23, 2009, 08:23:34 am »
Ann and Andy
I was 12 weeks and 1 day after the pep(28days), 16 weeks was after sex.
sorry I'm desperate

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Re: PEP and 16 weeks 3 day
« Reply #12 on: September 23, 2009, 08:40:39 am »
In many countries 12 weeks is equivalent to 13 weeks as a conclusive testing point. You are HIV negative. Period. Cut out the drama and get on with your life.
Andy Velez

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Re: PEP and 16 weeks 3 day
« Reply #13 on: September 30, 2009, 04:06:24 pm »
I'm doing another elisa 4th generation at 21 weeks.
I hope you're right.

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Re: PEP and 16 weeks 3 day
« Reply #14 on: September 30, 2009, 04:40:42 pm »
You'll just collect another negative result. That's fine if you need that to let go of this concern and move on with your life.
Andy Velez

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Re: PEP and 16 weeks 3 day
« Reply #15 on: October 01, 2009, 12:40:32 pm »
Andy
more negative ELISA test,at 21 weeks.
thanks.

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Re: PEP and 16 weeks 3 day
« Reply #16 on: October 01, 2009, 05:13:09 pm »
Good. No surprise about here about that result.

Hope you'll give up your unnecessary drama about this now and get on with your life.

Cheers.
Andy Velez

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Re: PEP and 16 weeks 3 day
« Reply #17 on: November 01, 2009, 07:06:26 pm »
hi andy,I took 28 days pep. I did an ELISA at 24 weeks and one day, is was negative.
but I have done follow-up CD4 and CD8. my cd8<cd4 for 5 months.
my doctor said I do not have HIV.
my doctor but do not know why my CD8 are increased.
please help me.
cd4= 910
cd8= 1234

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Re: PEP and 16 weeks 3 day
« Reply #18 on: November 01, 2009, 10:07:09 pm »
Mal,

Please help you? Help you with what? You don't have hiv. You don't need our help. I wish I had CD4 counts like yours. Sheesh.

I'm giving you that time out you've been warned about. Do not attempt to create a new account to get around your time out because if you do, you will be permanently banned.

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Nymphomaniac: a woman as obsessed with sex as an average man. Mignon McLaughlin

HIV is certainly character-building. It's made me see all of the shallow things we cling to, like ego and vanity. Of course, I'd rather have a few more T-cells and a little less character. Randy Shilts

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Re: PEP and 16 weeks 3 day
« Reply #19 on: February 28, 2010, 08:51:23 pm »
hello to all, I have tested negative (antibodies and pcr - 40 copies) at 30 weeks pos npep, but my cd8 still higher than CD4. scared of having a late seroconversion. At the time I spent candidiasis prostitute for my dick. Since I have so far but usually the back one red dot on my dick.

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Re: PEP and 16 weeks 3 day
« Reply #20 on: February 28, 2010, 09:01:33 pm »
You don't have HIV.

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Re: PEP and 16 weeks 3 day
« Reply #21 on: March 01, 2010, 08:14:27 am »
Mal,

We've told you repeatedly that you don't have hiv. You are conclusively hiv negative.

If you insist on going on and on about this, you will be given a second time out that will last for 56 days. PLEASE CONSIDER YOURSELF WARNED!

Ann
Condoms are a girl's best friend

Condom and Lube Info  

"...health will finally be seen not as a blessing to be wished for, but as a human right to be fought for." Kofi Annan

Nymphomaniac: a woman as obsessed with sex as an average man. Mignon McLaughlin

HIV is certainly character-building. It's made me see all of the shallow things we cling to, like ego and vanity. Of course, I'd rather have a few more T-cells and a little less character. Randy Shilts

 


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