One day you're young...
-
One day you're young, and the next, you have a favourite pharmacy, and a pill for everything.
This is the reality that some of us face when we are HIV+ and have a variety of other medical issues. The only thing not shown here is the Ozempic for diabetes, as this needs to be kept in the fridge.
Thankfully for me, except for the Ozempic (which is 1 stab once a week), all my meds are once daily, so I simply down a fist full of pills every morning that I like to call my "drug salad", and I'm good to go for the day.
The reality is that this only begins to touch the surface on what we (people who live with HIV) have to deal with. All of this comes at a price of about $5,600 CAD every 3 months, however between my disability insurance benefits and the $2.00 per script discount that my pharmacy applies after billing my insurance, the total out of pocket cost to me is $0.00 every 3 months. God I love Canada!
The only difference between martyrdom and suicide is press coverage! -
@MrMazda the stigma is still the hardest pill to swallow, and it seems to be getting worse over time, I find that people seem to know little to nothing about the virus and its life cycle now, I wonder if it's not talked about in schools anymore.
-
@ianfontinell-0 said in One day you're young...:
@MrMazda the stigma is still the hardest pill to swallow, and it seems to be getting worse over time, I find that people seem to know little to nothing about the virus and its life cycle now, I wonder if it's not talked about in schools anymore.
That is not my experience at all, where in the world are you? If anything u=u & PrEP lead to very little worry about STIs, even though PrEP doesn't prevent STIs. In my area, HIV is a very low concern for people within the MSM arena.
-
@ianfontinell-0 Yes... The schools don't teach anywhere near what they used to on the subject. They make it sound like you take a pill and all is well.
They don't touch at all on many of the other issues that many of us face, like the side effects of the meds, the cost of the meds, which for some, is simply not feasible, or in cases like mine, the legal challenges we face due to the stigma.
One of the important things they don't even touch on is toxoplasmosis, which is most commonly found in cat shit and bird shit. It comes from the consumption of meat that has never been frozen and never been cooked. It's why so many of us do not eat sushi, because this could literally kill us in a very slow and painful manner.
