Do you have to take PrEP forever?

It isn't a pill you have to take forever. You get to decide when to start and stop PrEP. Just remember that if you don't take it regularly, you aren't as safe. Once you've started taking PrEP, you should stay on it for at least a month after you were last exposed to HIV.

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Given every two months, Apretude have been shown to be 90% effective in lowering the risk fo HIV It can take 7-20 days from when you take your first pill until it's most effective. Skipping a dose or not taking PrEP regularly lowers the medications ability to protect you. If you take the oral medication: The pill forms of PrEP shold be taken once a day, every day to prevent HIV from taking hold in your body. The injectable Apretude is taken once every eight weeks PrEP stands for pre-exposure prophylaxis. It's a pill or injection you can take when you don't have HIV but are likely to get the virus, perhaps because of sex or injection-drug use. It helps before you're infected, so HIV can't settle into your body and spread. For years, the most common prevention method has been condoms. Newer methods, like PrEP, are showing real promise, helping to lower the chance of infection for people who are HIV-negative. And both men and women can use it. Because there's currently no cure for HIV, it's better to prevent an infection if you can than to take medicine for the rest of your life. Is it safe? The first PrEP medication, Truvada, was approved by the FDA in 2012 and Descovy was aproved in 2019. They may cause nausea, stomach upset, and dizziness, but these typically go away over time. None of the side effects have been life-threatening. Even after taking PrEP for 5 years, people aren't having health problems because of it. Apretude was approved in late 2021. Side effects for it include fatgue and headaches. And you can't get HIV from taking PrEP, because it's not a vaccine. There's no HIV in it. PrEP doesn't seem to cause problems when you take it while you're using hormonal birth control, medication for depression, or alcohol and other party drugs. If you have kidney or bone problems, though, let your doctor know before you start taking PrEP medication. We're still learning how PrEP later affects kids whose mothers used it during pregnancy and breastfeeding. Could PrEP work for me? It doesn't matter what your gender identity and sexual orientation are. It's a good option for someone in any of these situations: In an ongoing relationship with an HIV-positive partner

Has sex with multiple partners and doesn't always use condoms

Injects drugs or shares needles If you're a woman who wants to have a baby with an HIV-positive man, ask your doctor about PrEP. It may be a way to lower the chances of you and your baby getting HIV. Research is still being done on the effects of taking PrEP when you're transgender and having hormone therapy. No bad reactions have been reported so far. Will PrEP work if I might already have HIV? For PrEP to protect you, it needs to be taken before you come in contact with the virus. PrEP isn't a cure for HIV. If you think you've been exposed, call your doctor right away or head to the emergency room. If you start taking a different kind of medication called PEP (post-exposure prophylaxis) within 72 hours, it can lower your odds of HIV infection.

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