TRUVADA: Why are we ALL not taking this???!!!!

[londonpirate]

I ve had a chad with a w doctors about it and they all agree that :
- the pill has serious side effects: you will basically spend your days vomiting and in intense body pain
- it damages your organs , even one course of pep can have long lasting damaging effects
- it's not a 100% safe

similarly bleach kills the hiv virus but drinking bleach would kill you and the virus.

[Westheangelino]

http://www.healthline.com/health-new...nsurers-050814

http://myprepexperience.blogspot.com...ada-track.html

http://dish.andrewsullivan.com/2014/...he-pill-ctd-4/

http://www.mass.gov/eohhs/docs/dph/a...-providers.pdf

So, everyone (including the state of Mass.) posting these articles are either full or shit or just misinformed regarding insurance coverage for truvada? Really?

As for some of you making these ridiculous comments about me poisoning your sexual swimming pool and "hoping you get to them first" before I sully your sexual partners with disease: so what? I mean, the condom is 100% safe and effective, and you're always using one, right? You would never bareback ever right? So, you should be totally fine according to your own arguments

[fred41]

Someone mentioned stock...Gilead Sciences is doing very well right now.....just sayin'

[Westheangelino]

^ Usually happens when you invent a wonder drug

[fred41]

^ Usually happens when you invent a wonder drug

Oh yeah...they also have that Hep.C drug...it's expensive and soon will have competition...but it's also doing wonders.
I bought some stock...so keep bumping this thread...lol.

[livepersona]

So you're saying this drug works almost as well as a condom? It's pretty simple.If your'e going to fuck around wear a condom. Never be a beta tester when it comes to medication.

[kaientai]

http://www.healthline.com/health-new...nsurers-050814

http://myprepexperience.blogspot.com...ada-track.html

http://dish.andrewsullivan.com/2014/...he-pill-ctd-4/

http://www.mass.gov/eohhs/docs/dph/a...-providers.pdf

So, everyone (including the state of Mass.) posting these articles are either full or shit or just misinformed regarding insurance coverage for truvada? Really?

As for some of you making these ridiculous comments about me poisoning your sexual swimming pool and "hoping you get to them first" before I sully your sexual partners with disease: so what? I mean, the condom is 100% safe and effective, and you're always using one, right? You would never bareback ever right? So, you should be totally fine according to your own arguments

Manufactured by Gilead Sciences, Truvada PrEP has proven effective at preventing HIV transmission up to 99 percent of the time when used as directed.
from one of your links

[Westheangelino]

^ yep. 99% is more than a condom. I don't understand the statements of "this works as well as a condom.....so use a condom!" Why the fuck wouldn't you use either both or just the pill????

[Westheangelino]

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blog...event-hiv.html

Is the New Yorker a reputable enough source?

"The corresponding figures for PrEP are much better: while adherence is a concern, as it is with condoms, Truvada offers H.I.V. protection that is more effective than any other method short of abstinence. In the N.I.H. study, for example, 5.2 per cent of the placebo group “seroconverted,” or became H.I.V. positive, compared with 2.9 per cent of the Truvada group. That’s a forty-four-per-cent added protection over-all—better than inconsistent condom use. More impressively, patients who maintained a detectable amount of the drug in their system were protected at a rate of ninety-five per cent. (A later statistical analysis estimated that the drug would need to be taken four times a week to offer protection in that range.) Grant said that people in the study who took the drug four to seven days a week “were absolutely protected. We didn’t have anyone seroconvert in our cohort in the United States.”

Taking Truvada to prevent H.I.V. comes with very few risks. In the N.I.H. study, one in two hundred people had to temporarily go off the pill owing to kidney issues, but even those people were able to resume treatment after a couple of weeks. While bone-density loss occasionally occurs in Truvada takers who are already infected with the virus, no significant bone issues have emerged in the PrEP studies. And though about one in ten PrEP takers suffer from nausea at the onset of treatment, it usually dissipates after a couple of weeks. According to the U.N. panel’s Karim, Truvada’s side-effects profile is “terrific,” and Grant said that common daily medications like aspirin and birth control, as well as drugs to control blood pressure and cholesterol, are all arguably more toxic than Truvada."

[RobynBlakeTS]

Your focusing far to much on the fact that the drug prevents HIV replication in a person. Yes that is a good thing and ignoring the current bad side effects a great achievement for science and medicine. The problem is you are now using this drug as a green light for bareback sex, but you are ignoring all the other risks present in that venture. Yes this drug will stop you getting HIV but not using a condom opens you up to the risk of gaining all the other STD's are there. Yes condoms are not 100% but they do help lower the risk of infections and the passing off STD's.