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Could Pep Drugs Delay The Symptoms Of Ars

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PEP effect on ARS

Dr. Bob - First, thank you so much for just being there to answer these questions. I had a high risk exposure recently (receptive anal sex without ejaculation) and am now on day 19 of PEP with Trizivir. I have a couple of questions: 1....
Robert J. Frascino, M.D.

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This forum is dedicated to HIV-positive folks, particularly those who have concerns related to fatigue and/or anemia. Questions related to HIV transmission, prevention, safer sex, HIV testing and risk should be sent to Dr. Bob at his "Safe Sex... Read more »

PEP and ARS symptoms

Hi! I am on pep after insertive vaginal penetration. I started 42 hours after the exposure. I am... Read more »

PEP effect on ARS

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ARS symptoms vs. delayed seroconversion

Posted by Anonymous, 3 Replies
This is for all of those people who became very ill (flu-like symptoms, rash diahrea, etc)and believed those symptoms to be ARS related do to whatever type of sexual encounter...I being one of them. I found some information to back up my... Read more »

Symptoms after PEP

Posted by Anonymous, 2 Replies
Hi all,

Been reading your posts for the past month, really helpful.

So here is my case: I had a pretty high risk exposure (condom slippage during sex with female prostitute).
The next day I went to the ER and got a PEP prescription (Combivir, I started... Read more »

I had all the symptoms of ARS

Posted by manifestingneg, 1 Reply
After a drunken exposure in Thailand with a Thai girl, where the condom slipped, I started PEP at 56 hours. I took it for 1 week and stopped due to side effects. I had extreme fatigue begin on day 10 post exposure. I was now back home in the... Read more »

PEP & Symptoms

Posted by scared83
Anon One told me that PEP delays the detection of antibodies in the blood and that I should get tested at 4 months. My question is, does it delay symptoms as well? Will I normally have symptoms 4-6 weeks (or whatever the avg is) after exposure or... Read more »

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