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I worried about hiv infection
I did unprotected oral sex 7 days ago ...I am not sure but likely that person is hiv positive highly becoz she told me she is having low cd4 count ..now I am on pep for last 4 days ..I started pep on 69-70 hours ..I have now few symptom like fever coming and going , swollen lymph, throat ,rash and pain in my joint special ly knees ..what is this ? Is this dew to virus or dew to side effect of medicine ...my report came negative and when should I go for report again ..pls help me with this
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Dr. Nanditha C N
General Physician
4 yrs exp
Bangalore
Its essential for both source and exposes person to undergo baseline testing as follows
Source- HIV antigen /antibody testing , Hepatitis B , hepatitis C , viral load n genome resistance
Exposed person to undergo baseline -Hiv antigen /antibody, hepatitis B antibody , hepatitis C antibody, physical examination by physician or infectious disease specialist to rule our sexually transmitted infections ,baseline creatinine and liver function tests as certain drugs used in post exposure prophylaxis tend to cause side effects
Next Steps
Consult a nearby physician/ infectious disease specialist who will guide you through this process
Repeat testing is done at 0/1month/3month/6month interval
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