Experienced unusual side effects from Prep and Doxy

[Cretus]

Hi all,

I personally wanted to share some experiences regarding my use of descovy. I noticed that when I began using it around 4 years ago, I would experience weird tingly cool sensations around my body. I assumed that was normal and even a sign of medicinal internal uptake. 
 

Recently, the cool sensations became more intense, accompanied by all-over-the-body itching, pain, loose yellow stools (NOT accompanied with the painful stomach sensation of diarrhea), and cognitive slowdowns/headaches/physical imbalance/ etc.

Doctor told me that descovy and sometimes truvada, for a rare subset of people, can induce rare side effects like lactic acidosis, which can lead to a bunch of these symptoms. 
 

Since the day of halting descovy, my symptoms have drastically improved. 

I am halting sex for now while I figure out what HIV preventative medication will be best for me. Likely apretude.

Onto another topic: Doxy-pep  overuse also seemed to have irritated my pancreas somewhat. It’s another rare side effect. I have refrained from using it and my pancreas has improved.

 

It is important that you take medications designed to prevent the transmission of disease, but always be in touch with your doctor about what might work best for you, and what can be improved. I definitely don’t want someone to take away from this that they shouldn’t use PrEP at all.

Edited 2 hours ago by Cretus