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Discussion: All about HIV
Member Since: 6/24/2012
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Originally posted by Outlaws
I have one question:
If you are HIV+, what about alcohol and weed? What do the doctors say? |
You can drink alcohol but not abuse of it if you're going to take your pill afterwards. I don't know about weed but it won't do any damage as long as it isn't abused.
One of the side effects of the pills most HIV+ patients consume a day is that they can affect the liver in the long term, just like alcohol does. So that is why it isn't advisable to abuse alcohol while being under treatment.
Of course, if someone HIV+ will get drunk, he can stop his treatment for that day only and can take his pill the day later. That is something that can be done now and then, not all the time though.
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Member Since: 1/2/2014
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Are rapid HIV tests (where you get an instant result) as reliable as normal ones?
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Member Since: 6/24/2012
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Originally posted by Buyonce1814
Are rapid HIV tests (where you get an instant result) as reliable as normal ones?
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They tend to give false positives.
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Member Since: 2/2/2009
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Originally posted by Outlaws
I have one question:
If you are HIV+, what about alcohol and weed? What do the doctors say? |
Well my Doc said I can do whatever I want, just don't overdo It. Don't drink alcohol up to 5 hours before and after you took your pill but like I said, I never had a problem doing It. I don't drink that often tho.
Drugs the same. Weed is totally fine. Other drugs too, It's just your immune system that will tell you to stop (when you're partying harder than usual)
Same rules as for "normal" people: If you snort your coke from a dirty place, you're as ****ed as anyone else 
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Member Since: 2/2/2009
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Thanks to abrahamjmr for helping me in here and thanks to anyone sending messages and questions. 
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Member Since: 1/2/2014
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Originally posted by abrahamjmr
They tend to give false positives. |
Wow really? Why is this? So it's not worth taking the rapid one and I should do a normal one instead?
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Member Since: 6/24/2012
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Originally posted by Buyonce1814
Wow really? Why is this? So it's not worth taking the rapid one and I should do a normal one instead?
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Do the normal one instead, they're more reliable. If you've gone through a common flu or any other virus like mono recently, a rapid test would throw a false positive and the person who did the test would advise you to do the normal one or a western blot to confirm.
Though the person who's going to take the sample must ask you if you've had flu or have gone through any other viral process before the test.
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Member Since: 6/24/2012
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Originally posted by Daddy
Thanks to abrahamjmr for helping me in here and thanks to anyone sending messages and questions. |
Thanks to you. People need to be educated about important matters like this one, especially when we have those users you know of spreading **** all over the place.
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Member Since: 5/27/2016
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I apologise if this is a really stupid question (or if this is the wrong place to ask), please don't get angry at me 
ok so I just thought of this one random scenario. say you see a mosquito. you hit it and squish it with your hand, but it didn't bite you. you just perfectly swatted it. then there's some blood on your hand(s) because you killed the mosquito. would you be at risk for HIV because of the blood? thanks
I kind of feel like I need latinazza for this question since her mum specialises in HIV.
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Member Since: 8/7/2015
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Originally posted by Yndda
I apologise if this is a really stupid question (or if this is the wrong place to ask), please don't get angry at me
ok so I just thought of this one random scenario. say you see a mosquito. you hit it and squish it with your hand, but it didn't bite you. you just perfectly swatted it. then there's some blood on your hand(s) because you killed the mosquito. would you be at risk for HIV because of the blood? thanks
I kind of feel like I need latinazza for this question since her mum specialises in HIV. |
I don't think so sis
Also i got my test back and it was negative. I've learnt my lesson.
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Member Since: 1/4/2014
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Originally posted by willmcclure9
I don't think so sis
Also i got my test back and it was negative. I've learnt my lesson.
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Slay a biT! Negative is where it's at. I somehow strolled onto a horrible forum that I'd probably be BANNED for posting here so let me not, but it was basically a bug chaser forum and I was reading the "Do you have regrets?" thread and there was one guy saying how it was all hot and sexy until months in when he was racking up quite the medical bill and just hated being so dependant on drugs.
Like as they say, it's not a death sentence any more, but it's by no means a fun trip.
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Member Since: 8/18/2013
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How much does the average HIV positive person pay a month for the pills or treatment? Is it covered by insurance?
ThIs is really informative guys, thanks
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Member Since: 9/1/2013
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Originally posted by Yndda
I apologise if this is a really stupid question (or if this is the wrong place to ask), please don't get angry at me
ok so I just thought of this one random scenario. say you see a mosquito. you hit it and squish it with your hand, but it didn't bite you. you just perfectly swatted it. then there's some blood on your hand(s) because you killed the mosquito. would you be at risk for HIV because of the blood? thanks
I kind of feel like I need latinazza for this question since her mum specialises in HIV. |
It's not a dumb question, babes. You'd be surprised how many people actually believe that (and, according to my mom, back in the really bad days of the pandemic a lot of folks assumed that it was a vector for transmission).
Viruses are pretty special creatures, they require a particular species (or group thereof) to host them in order to be viable for replication and infection.
Mosquitos (and virtually every other living creature, except humans) do not provide the right biological environment for HIV to stay viable and then be passed on to other beings. If they were to bite someone who was HIV+ any virus that they ingested would be broken down by the animals digestive tract, making it thus not functioning for replication.
Still, the most important part is that when mosquitoes bite us (or any other animal) they only inject saliva into our organism, not blood. Therefore there isn't a single documented case of transmission by means of an insect bite, as they simply cannot pass it on, even if they had traces of the virus in their organism.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10554479
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Member Since: 5/27/2016
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Originally posted by Latinazza
It's not a dumb question, babes. You'd be surprised how many people actually believe that (and, according to my mom, back in the really bad days of the pandemic a lot of folks assumed that it was a vector for transmission).
Viruses are pretty special creatures, they require a particular species (or group thereof) to host them in order to be viable for replication and infection.
Mosquitos (and virtually every other living creature, except humans) do not provide the right biological environment for HIV to stay viable and then be passed on to other beings. If they were to bite someone who was HIV+ any virus that they ingested would be broken down by the animals digestive tract, making it thus not functioning for replication.
Still, the most important part is that when mosquitoes bite us (or any other animal) they only inject saliva into our organism, not blood. Therefore there isn't a single documented case of transmission by means of an insect bite, as they simply cannot pass it on, even if they had traces of the virus in their organism.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10554479 |
so if I were to squish a mosquito, with blood from who knows who, with my finger (with intact skin), I would be at no risk for HIV? thanks. I just thought of that scenario and it made me more introverted just by the thought of it 
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Member Since: 9/1/2013
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Originally posted by TurntUp
How much does the average HIV positive person pay a month for the pills or treatment? Is it covered by insurance?
ThIs is really informative guys, thanks
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That may depend on the country or state (if living in the U.S.) where a person resides and the type of health insurance that they have. It also depends on the type of medication that the person is taking.
Some of the newer lines of treatment (particularly the ones where the person takes only one pill that includes three or four medications) tend to have a very high list price. The most commonly prescribed one has a price ranging between $2,500 and $3,000. But depending on the co-payment that a particular insurance company imposes on the individual they may pay as little as $10 or as much as 20 or 30% of the list price. There was a recent incident in FL where members of a particular insurance plan got really screwed over and couldn't afford their co-payments.
There are however several things available to people living with HIV who have either no insurance or inadequate coverage, some of them are income dependent: ADAP (AIDS Drug Assistance Program), the Ryan White Program, and (in some states) Medicaid.
And of course, those living in Western Europe have different health benefits that often cover the entire cost of the medications and medical follow-up. Some places in Latin America have similar health systems. Unfortunately, for many other countries it is still not easy or affordable.
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Member Since: 9/1/2013
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Originally posted by Yndda
so if I were to squish a mosquito, with blood from who knows who, with my finger (with intact skin), I would be at no risk for HIV? thanks. I just thought of that scenario and it made me more introverted just by the thought of it |
Nah, not at all 
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Member Since: 5/27/2016
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ok, that brings me to my next random question (I apologise, my school's health class was bad): is hand sanitiser (64% ethyl alcohol) enough to kill HIV?
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Member Since: 10/1/2011
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Got tested for the first time a few weeks ago. I was so nervous idk why though I never had unprotected sex but I have fooled around quite a bit when I was younger either way I am negative and I will be keeping it that way
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Member Since: 9/1/2013
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Originally posted by Yndda
ok, that brings me to my next random question (I apologise, my school's health class was bad): is hand sanitiser (64% ethyl alcohol) enough to kill HIV?
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HIV is a pretty delicate virus. When it is exposed to the oxygen and other factors in the environment the virus becomes non-viable in a matter of seconds. If, on top of that, you rub your hands with hand sanitizer (let's say that you had hypothetically touched someone's infected blood or semen) it would damage it even further. Damaged virus = no chance of infection.
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Member Since: 5/27/2016
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thank you! got rid of so many misconceptions in my head 
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