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I am so glad you reached out when you are feeling this way. It can be so hard to deal with symptoms without knowing the cause. We are not medical professionals so cannot determine your transmission risk but can provide some information I hope will help. It sounds like you do not know if the person you were with was living with HIV, or if they were, you do not know if they were on medication (if someone is living with HIV and with treatment reaches an undetectable level, they cannot transmit HIV sexually - https://h-i-v.net/clinical/treatment-is-prevention ) .


Are you able to talk to the prescriber who gave you the PEP about the symptoms that developed after you left? And when you saw them, what did the recommend in terms of testing?


- Liz (Team Member)

Thanks for getting back to me Liz. I will try and get back in touch with the prescriber then and let them know my early symptoms. When I took the pep I was tested there are then which was negative. I suppose it always would be so soon. Apparently you also cannot test during PEP, as it is masked. When I was was given the PEP they also booked be in for a test in 6 weeks, which is the soonest test you can have (a fortnight after completing the month session of PEP). Thanks again.

Alafia (Peace) How are things going with you? Did you get the anwsers you needed? We hope you don't have any more concerns. Khafre (H-I-V.net Team Member)