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Apparently, like many other Americans, he has difficulty with some of the shorter words in English. "All", for example. -
Do You Discuss HIV Status Before Barebacking?
viking8x6 replied to rawTOP's topic in General Discussion
Moderator's Note: This post is NOT in the Backroom. Please leave the poz fetish material out of it. -
This is a fascinating study; thanks for posting it!
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That is correct. Nobody's profile will be deleted, and you will still be able to log in with the same credentials so long as your IP address is tagged by the system as outside a restricted state (which will now include the UK).
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What Happened To A Particular Story? Questions Here.
viking8x6 replied to rjb56's topic in Bug Chasing & Gift Giving FICTION
If by "actually passes" you mean he dies, if the story was ever here it would have been removed. Snuff is not allowed anywhere on the site. -
Undetectable HIV+ will read as positive (HIV+) on a home test. That's because the test measures antibodies to HIV, not the virus itself. HIV+ guys with undetectable viral load don't need meds other than their primary ART to keep it that way. Most of the commonly used ARTs (at least in the first world, I'm not sure about elsewhere) are three-drug combinations in a single tablet.
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Dealing with syphilis
viking8x6 replied to BritishCumdump's topic in HIV/AIDS & Sexual Health Issues
Once you have done the course of treatment (usually penicillin injections, either 1 dose or 3 doses at intervals) your RPR titer (quantitative RPR test that gives you a number rather than positive or negative) will level off or start going down. A stable or declining value indicates no active infection. It's a fairly lame test and I don't know why they don't have a better DNA based test, but I researched it a bit and couldn't find any such thing. Might be time to get access to a university library. -
Dealing with syphilis
viking8x6 replied to BritishCumdump's topic in HIV/AIDS & Sexual Health Issues
Those questions are definitely things to ask your doctor. Syphilis varies in infectiousness depending on the stage of the disease. As I understand it, it's typically more contagious when there are skin lesions. Contrary to @Electricterror's comment, doxyPEP is fairly effective against syphilis. The only trouble is that people often don't know they have it, so you are in the dark about whether you need to use it or not. Your syphilis antibody test will always be positive from now on. Your RPR test may or may not return to negative (mine sometimes is and sometimes isn't). You have now joined the club of people who get to wonder whether they have been reinfected or just have antibodies from before. Sadly, the available tests are not great at distinguishing that. C'est la guerre. -
How stupid is to propose taking a HIV test before sex?
viking8x6 replied to soki's topic in Making The Decision To Bareback
All tests have some error rate, which is why confirmatory tests are done by medical professionals when initial screening shows a positive result. The only tests available over the counter (that I'm aware of) have a very low false negative rate (meaning if they say negative, you can believe it), but a significant false positive rate (meaning if they say positive, there's a sizable probability that it's an error). Note that, as others have posted above, there is a window of time after infection where these tests will give a false negative. https://www.fda.gov/vaccines-blood-biologics/approved-blood-products/information-regarding-oraquick-home-hiv-test The immediacy of results done be medical professionals depends on the lab facilities that are used. If the samples are shipped to a third party lab for testing, it can take anywhere from a day to a week. If the facility where the sample is taken has capability on site, it can take as little as 20-30 minutes, even for a PCR test (the kind that measures viral load and is accurate a much shorter time after infection). -
Who's that hot guy in the (vid, ad, etc) discussion
viking8x6 replied to viking8x6's topic in Bareback Porn Discussion
Just ran across this completely by chance. Luckily I had been browsing this topic recently and remembered it! https://barebackbastards.com/26774/wasted-poz-guy-with-huge-dick-breeds-neg-bottom/ -
The standard on-demand PrEP recommendation for emtricitabine/tenofovir disoproxil 200/300 is 2-1-1: First dose 2-24 hours before contact (2 tablets) and 2 subsequent doses at 24 hour intervals (1 tablet each).
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What Happened To A Particular Story? Questions Here.
viking8x6 replied to rjb56's topic in Bug Chasing & Gift Giving FICTION
First, use the search tool (in the upper right corner of the forum window) to look for them. Make sure you are looking in the appropriate subforum! If you're not sure which one they are in, search in all of the relevant ones. Second, post a request in this thread (or the similar thread in the appropriate subforum for your story) with a description of the story and see if someone else can help you find it. Please note that a small number of stories have been permanently removed due to changes in site policy over the years or for other reasons. -
"insert tab A into slot B, repeat as needed" --from an actual BBRT profile
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Inasmuch as no one has been banned for any post in this topic, nor in fact even given an infraction, you may be barking up the wrong tree. I'm happy to cite my sources, and in fact I did so in a private message with the member whose content I had called out. I agree that you have a point about transparency, and I'll be happy to try and make my reasoning clearer. But this is a private web forum and yes, the rules can not only seem, but be, arbitrary and even biased. We moderators are volunteers and we don't write the rules, we just apply them.
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Very nicely done! And Giftig's name is a delightful touch, for those who know.
