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Does PEP prevent HIV like PrEP does?
FHL replied to BritishCumdump's topic in HIV Risk & Risk Reduction
Not a doctor. My understanding is that PEP is just a strong dose PrEP. Common HIV medicine includes TDF/FTC (Tenofovir Disoproxil Fumarate/Emtricitabine, e.g. Truvada) TAF/FTC (Tenofovir Alafenamide/Emtricitabine, e.g. Descovy) Raltegravir (e.g. Isentress) Dolutegravir (e.g. Tivicay) For PrEP you take either Truvada or Descovy usually. For PEP, you are taking at least two (such as Truvada + Isentress) at higher doses. If you have been taking PrEP every day and now switch to PEP, I think you should be fine. PrEP, when taking as directed, should prevent the vast majority of HIV infections, and switching to PEP, in theory it should only offer you more protection cos it's more pills. However, if prior to your unprotected sex last Sunday you were not taking PrEP as directed, taking PEP is not a "I can do whatever I want within these 28 days"--it only serves as a last resort for protection for that one time of unprotected sex. Even if you were infected on Sunday, it would be unlikely for you to be infectious within a week. -
I agree with this 100%. If it's a topic that I don't like, I just won't read it, or I will stop reading a few chapters in. One thing that grinds my gear though is people trying to mess with the format. I've seen posts with a hard to read color against the background, posts that have the font weirdly big, or even ones using ridiculous fonts like Comic Sans. Maybe someone can explain to me why some posts are like this, maybe a copy-and-paste issue that carried the format of the original document over? I am not blaming the author but it is a little distracting from the otherwise good content that the author worked hard on. That being said, I still kept my mouth shut about those, didn't bother to leave a comment or send the author a private message.
