Questions & Answers

Whether it is time spent, food delivered, a personal check, etc...would you, if you could, donate to a charity of your choice and why?💙💚💚💜❤️♥️🤗🤗

With the holiday season upon us, do you celebrate the holidays? Do they instead, bring forth memories? How do you cope?

I touched up on this question a year or two back, and with many more new members, sometimes it helps to get new fresh answers
Are there services that the gay community gets, that the straight community doesn't? Is it harder for straight positive women to get services or needs that the gay community get easily? Does it seem the straight positive community has to go through more red tape? If all of this is true, how can we overcome these issues? How can we stand as 1 community and not be divided… read more

Has your HIV status made a difference in your dating life?

I have lived with HIV for 31 years, almost half my life. As a long term survivor one has seen the worse of the disease from the very beginning. I looked like I was sick which I was in the 90's and people accepted it because AIDS was so prevalent. I was lucky to get on a trial for Crixivan in 1996 which saved my life. From then on I became stronger as more medications came out and more known about the illness I have adhered to my med schedule, monitored regularly by doctors and specialists… read more

I have Stage 3 Chronic Kidney Disease. It came to light in 2008 when I had a battle with kidney stones and had surgery. Right now I'm stable with the meds and diet, but get very anxious every appointment with my kidney doctor afraid I have crossed over into Stage 4 and dialysis. Wondering if anyone has kidney issues from HIV or medications. Just want you to know you have support if you do.

Biktarvy - Anyone getting side effects or bad effects from it? It gave me bad energy draining and some dizziness
Previously, I was on Genvoya with practically no side effects for me, however my doctor suggested I switch to Biktarvy (for reasons of smaller pill and less toxicity)
However, I noticed the day after starting Biktarvy, I had pretty severe energy drainage in my body, and occurrences of dizziness.
I'm just wonder if anyone else has experienced any problems with Biktarvy? For me,… read more

Sometimes those store shelves are sharp. Maybe you accidentally drop a jar of pickles and the glass cuts you. You could be in a nice restaurant and you drop your knife and cut yourself. Or you could be waiting for a black Friday sale and get trampled over. What ever the reason, how do you handle getting cut in the public?

I've been on Genvoya a little over a year, and it seems that I've gained weight. I've tried to diet, workout change eating habits. But I'm wondering is it the Genvoya. Is anyone else experiencing this?