Did you have an exposure?
It can be a result of many illnesses.What was your risk that you are concerned about?
PCP is a kind of pneumonia caused by the Pneumocystis carinii germ.
People who are healthy do not get PCP. There body has the ability to fight off the pneumonia.
So it s possible to get it one year in
Did you have a possible exposure?
Old people get it all the time
Old people with healthy immune symptoms do not get PCP.
However, it can cause a lung infection in people with a weakened immune system due to:
•Cancer
•Chronic use of corticosteroids or other medications that weaken the immune system
•HIV/AIDS
•Organ or bone marrow transplant
Pneumocystis jiroveci was a relatively rare infection before the AIDS epidemic. Before the use of preventive antibiotics for the condition, most people in the United States with advanced AIDS would develop it.
Hi - this is a forum for assessing HIV risk, and for questions about testing. If you have been diagnosed with PCP, your physician will work to find the cause. If you would like to know whether you have had a risk for HIV, or when to test, please post those questions here. Our members are not able to assess whether you have PCP and if so, why.
How about you tell us what your exposure was,if you had one at all.