I've never heard anyone in this decade recommend testing out to longer than 6 weeks post-exposure or post-PEP, whichever event happens later. HIV experts say 4-6 weeks after your last dose.
3 months only applies to the standalone antibody test.
Depends. What was your risk that you went on PEP?
Thanks. I was thinking that I was in the clear and then a nurse said that some people have taken longer than 45 days to test positive with a 4th generation test. So, he said to wait for three months.
I don’t know how ludicrous or plausible this will sound to you. What I’ll say is that I get anxiety. I don’t do drugs. I fell asleep one night on some steps from drinking too much. When I woke up I thought, what if someone injected me with HIV while I was asleep? I never noticed any blood or needle marks. I did have this brown mark on my hand. I took a photo of it and showed it to a doctor recently and he said it looked like a bruise or like I’d gotten some kind of solvent on my skin. I was in Asia at the time and only had to go to a chemist to get PEP and no questions were asked.
I never noticed any drug taking in this area I was in. It’s an area with hotels and businesses.
Your question has been fully answered.
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