Can't decide whether or not to get pozzed

[BootmanLA]

21 hours ago, BigChaserHere said:

If you can't swallow your PrEP, consider CABENUVA

First month = IM injection day 1 then IM injection 30 days later

THEN ....

an IM injection every other month

It lends great protection

Cabenuva is *NOT* a PrEP medication. It's for TREATMENT of HIV once you get it. Please don't confuse the issue by conflating PrEP (which is prevention of HIV) with this drug (which is for TREATMENT of HIV).

The injectable form of PrEP is called (by brand name) Apretude, which contains only ONE of the active ingredients in Cabenuva. In fact, as a general rule, PrEP (in any form) contains fewer ingredients than HIV treatment medications. The reason is that it's easier to prevent HIV than it is to treat it - once it's managed to burrow its way in, completely removing it is essentially* impossible, and it requires disrupting the replication of HIV in more than one way. Prevention just has to keep it from taking hold in your system.

*I  say "essentially" because there have been a handful of cases of eradicating HIV, by killing off a patient's entire immune system with chemotherapy and a stem cell transplant to replace it. But that's an expensive, debilitating process that runs the risk of killing the patient and may or may not always succeed. 

[BootmanLA]

15 hours ago, IrishBoi said:

the injection isnt available in the uk here yet

And it's unlikely to be approved as a first-line PrEP product; that is, it's more likely that even when it IS approved and available, you'd be required to take the tablet form until they documented that didn't work well for you given your swallowing issues. You might luck out and get the injection approved from the start, but planning on that is betting on a less-than-likely event.