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on Pep due to condom breakage
I'm on day 13th of pep I have not touched myself this is going to be a weird question... Can I masturbate? Or will that affect the pep
Thank you all so much this has been really encouraging and helping me calm myself
I'm on truvada and isentress I have 14 days left due to the condom breaking I asked the guy to take a or a quick test when it broke I went to CVS and bought it...he tested positive... I was on pep 4 hours afterwards...no real side effects I'm just anxious to test and get through this
PEP is very effective - it should be three drugs -- typically two medications Truvada + Isentress. Mass had a 2 year study where no one on PEP got infected.
It will have no effect on PEP.
Looking at your other thread, you were at lower risk than you think. Even without PEP, your risk of catching HIV in this situation was probably no higher than 1 in a couple hundred -- that's the average risk from receptive anal (bottom) with a known infected partner. If your partner's story of low viral load was true, your risk was even lower.
Don't get me wrong: PEP was the right thing to do. But you can relax; there is nothing you can do (and no drugs you could take) that would make PEP less effective. It will work fine and you can be confident you won't be infected.
Looking at your other thread, you were at lower risk than you think. Even without PEP, your risk of catching HIV in this situation was probably no higher than 1 in a couple hundred -- that's the average risk from receptive anal (bottom) with a known infected partner. If your partner's story of low viral load was true, your risk was even lower.
Don't get me wrong: PEP was the right thing to do. But you can relax; there is nothing you can do (and no drugs you could take) that would make PEP less effective. It will work fine and you can be confident you won't be infected.
Be advised that pep is given to those that have been exposed to a tested HIV positive person. It does not affect masturbation.
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