Health : NYC Meningitis

New York Times is reporting a meningitis that is attacking and has killed a number of gay/bisexual men in the city. It is easier to catch than HIV. By saliva..kissing, sharing a cigarette or joint or being sneezed on. The good news is their is a meningitis vaccine that if received will protect guys for up to five years. And they are trying to get the news out before all the gay pride events this summer cuz we gay guys love to travel. Definitely check with your Dr. to see if you have had that vaccine in the last five years and get it if not.  Over 10,200 vaccinations have been given in NYC at clubs, sex clubs, house parties. 50% of the cases have been from the African-American gay/bisexual community and 18% from Hispanic and rest from white guys. It does not seem to infect women. Check out the article in New York Times!

Dave

Health : Bareback Only!

I’ve been noticing a lot of profiles lately where neg guys are looking for other neg guys for bareback sex. This doesn’t surprise me.  What surprises me is how willing guys are to believe these potential dates when they tell them they are negative. Can we really trust someone we just met when they tell us they are HIV negative? 

The best advice anyone can give you is to assume everyone is positive and fuck accordingly. That being said, I am guessing the majority of guys can be trusted but as we know it’s always that one bad seed.  

Your local pharmacy might have the answer you are looking for. The In Home 20 minute HIV test. Check this out. Let’s say you are online cruising for Mr. BB for NEG Only. You find him, tag him and he is on his way over. He gets to your place and you ask him if he will take the test.  

Health : A Cure For HIV Within Months

Danish researchers and scientists believe that they will find a cure for HIV within months. They are presently waiting for results of clinical trials where HIV virus is stripped from human DNA and destroyed permanently by the immune system.

The technique consists of releasing the HIV virus from the reservoirs it forms inside DNA to bring it to the surface of the cell. Once at the surface, the body’s natural immune system would destroy the virus through being boosted by a vaccine.

Health : HIV Medications

HIV medications today have far less toxic than the older medications. Side effects are more manageable today than ever before.  I am going to focus on three side effects that affected me and what I did to manage them. These are Lipodystrophy or fat redistribution, enlarged parotid glands on the neck and muscle loss. 

Lipodystrophy affects everyone differently. Some see the facial wasting or fat accumulates on the back below the neck and a hump appears or we get visceral fat around the organs which makes the stomach seem large. 

Couple things can be done for facial wasting:  implants or fillers. I noticed my cheeks were losing fat around 2005.  I read about fillers and made an appointment to see what my options were. The process is really simple, very little pain and considering what it did for my self-esteem well worth it. The sad thing is this is not covered by insurance but the NIH is evaluating fillers to see if they can be covered under insurance and Medicaid so the out of pocket won’t be so bad

Health : Curvature Of The Penis

The penis contains three so-called ‘corpora’ – sponge-like columns of erectile tissue – that fill with blood during an erection, making them expand and become hard.

Viewed from above, a corpora cavernosum stretches along each sides of the penis, the third, which also includes the glans, is situated below and between them. If one corpus or section is shorter than the others, it causes the penis to curve towards the shortened side.

There are two types of congenital penis curvature: it is either present at birth or develops during puberty (atrophy of the penis erectile tissue).