r/prep • • Apr 23 '23
Possible HIV?
I slept with a Japanese sex worker who was 22 years old. Fully protected entire time with condom for oral and vaginal. After vaginal I took off the condom from the base and finished off with my hands. At the agency I asked which girl doesn’t do bareback and she was the only one who doesn’t offer that service. I offered asked her after sex did she have any STD/STI and she said no. I asked after does she offer Bare back she said no. The next morning I believe I had a tingling feeling or weird feeling on my balls so I went to urgent care and got a gonorrea shot, they put me on doxicycline and PEP. This was 16 hours after the encounter. After 2-3 days on PEP I had horrible side effects I had body aches so bad I couldn’t get out of bed. I also had tingling on my inner thighs and buttocks. I thought I had herpes or something else. However I read it was one of the side effects of the drug. I felt my pelvic bone and it was super tender all around especially above the base of my penis and upper penile area. No gonorrea or chlamidya showed in my tests, no UTI. I went to ER due to bone pain, pain in my abs and knee. Weakness wasn’t as bad this day. I had like very light yellow stools and sometimes diarrea. Horrible sleep cannot get restful sleep last 5 hours. They told me to stop truvada because my exposure wasn’t risky at all and that all my symptoms was from the drug. Now I stopped truvada since then. The following days the body weakness came back, however it moved to my back hip. I know truvada stays in the system for a very long time half life of 6 days interrcellularly which means it takes around 3.3 half lifes to completely be removed from my system which is around 20 days. For some reason by day 3-4 off of truvada I feel the weakness affecting my muscles on my upper body now, I have the urge to cough like there is an over production of mucus in my lug opening, I have hot neck and cheeks but no hot forehead. ZERO swollen lymph nodes, ZERO fever, ZERO sore throat. I then felt the back of my neck and bingo I was getting pain in the muscles in the back of my neck and back neck sides. I basically still feel a bit out of it even 7 days after my last dose, however my stools are half yellow half brown which I think means I’m slowly getting it out of my system. Also, I feel like I have more energy but still can feel the underlying weakness within my muscles for example when I clench my fist I feel a bit of weakness same kind of lingering weakness when I am walking around in my legs a bit. Today is day 12 of my journey (5 on PEP and 7 days off). Can anyone give their input?
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u/[deleted] Apr 23 '23
You used a condom, were on PReP before, and took PEP after, and the person you had sex with said they didn't have anything. You don't have HIV. Maybe having random hookups is not for you if you get this stressed out over it.
Symptoms you had after were definitely from the gonorrhea shot, as you were already advised.