HappyPozBoy

Thanks well the option is there 🙂

I go to my profile but the option isnt there. 

Amazing start. cant wait for more

Smoking and sex... my fav combo. Eagerly awaiting the next installment

I'm hooked on this story. Anything with a smoking angle will do that. Not usually turned on by AI art but damn keep it coming. 

On 12/29/2023 at 4:59 AM, TaKinGDeePanal said:

It could be that his friend is not a member of this site - and he is asking on his behalf.

it was hence why i said. people must have missed it lol. 

Does expired PrEP still work? A friend of mine stopped taking PrEP as he wasnt having sex. He was still collecting the scripts and has a few months worth. I had a look and on some of the boxes they are past the expiry date. Curious if they'd still work and provide the same level of protection or not? 

i never smoked before i converted, i never saw smoking as a sexual thing however my gifter is an occasional cigar smoker and daily pipe smoker and so am I now so I totally get the appeal 

I take it as being, in a gay / bug context - the stinger injecting venom. I think its more subtle too. Whereas the biohazard is direct and pretty much everyone knows what it means, the uninformated could mistake for just your star sign (as in Scorpio) 

just took 2 loads from a full blown aids buddy. still feel it in my hole

8 hours ago, LoveAndBeLoved said:

Your viral load is typical of the acute phase of infection that lasts 3-4 weeks. This is followed by seroconversion which will most likely include several weeks of flu-like illness. A lot of patients are hospitalized in this phase. But it goes away eventually and the VL tapers off to tens of thousands range. I am not a doctor but I have heard from a lot of HIV positive men. Your case is surprising to me because your VL is so high even several months after infection. 

 

Your CD4 count is rather low, given the short timeframe of your infection. It would often take 2 years for CD4 to go down below 500. This number 500 is important because scientists say - if you start treatment before your CD4 drops below 500 (some papers use 350 instead of 500), you have a better chance at functional cure. Also, higher CD4 means the size of your HIV reservoir is small. ART will stop the virus from replicating but the reservoir will stay. There are some very promising clinical trials that show the viral reservoir can be shrunk but it's still several years from now. Google "kick and kill hiv" if you want to learn more.

 

There's a worrisome (but very unlikely) chance that you could have gotten HIV much earlier and the virus has started to beat your immune system.

 

Regardless of what is the reason behind your VL, you have an excellent CD4 (almost 500) to begin treatment and, when/if a functional cure comes, be at a promising position to get cured. If you do not drink and smoke and eat+live healthy, your life expectancy should be the same as a non-HIV positive peer.  If you wait more, your CD4 will go down and the resulting larger HIV reservoir will be a pain in the ass. I am sure you are aware of opportunistic infections like PCP that can kill people. 

 

If you visit a doctor now and start ART, your VL will go down very fast. CD4 will increase eventually but it may take a few years. Almost everyone becomes undetectable in 6 months. Once you have undetectable VL for 6 months, you cannot pass HIV through sex. Won't that be fun?

thanks for the info. i'm meeting him tomorrow to go over it all just wanted some insight. should have added ive been having a lot of sex with unmedicated poz guys so that could be keeping it up. eitherway im happy with the results

So tested poz in April, converted around December/January. I don't want to take meds (for now) so havent gone to a clinic just done an Oraquik and it was poz. A friend who works in a clinic took some bloods to do a test off the record and came back today. VL 1.6 million CD4 425. Is that high for (relatively) new conversion? 

Great answers here. For me as a new convert from chasing I can definitely say i love being poz. I am part of a great circle of poz guys now and they have no hang ups or issues about it and embrace the pozitives (pun intended). I have ZERO regrets for getting it.