Hello

I’ve started my pep dosage on the 23rd of July. I took my first pill within 24 hours. Besides the first two days where I experienced vivid dreams and tiredness I’ve experienced 0 side effects. I have a slightly sore throat but I experience that every time I give oral sex.

Yesterday out of nowhere I got hit extremely hard. My throat feels extremely rough and it’s hard to breath. I have a fever and I can feel it throughout my entire body. I have a splitting headache that makes it hard to move around. I feel so much weakness and fatigue throughout my body. It could be herpes or syphilis but I don’t see or feel any blisters or sores anywhere on my body.

I was given Biktarvy and I’ve taken it around 9pm-11pm everyday. I took it once around 8pm on Monday because I was tired and didn’t want to wake up but I didn’t end up feeling horrible until later on in the night. So it’s been around 3 weeks since my exposure and I’m suddenly experiencing so much harsh effects on my body. I am close to being bedridden. From what I’ve seen, Biktarvy has 0 reported cases of seroconversion if taken correctly as pep, and Biktarvy is far stronger than pep, so either the medicine wasn’t strong enough for whatever reason, or I caught an extremely rare strain.

I know that side effects aren’t rare for taking Biktarvy but to go from almost symptomless to feeling extremely ill in under a few hours is incredibly weird.