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I'm PrEPped!!

 Who would've thought medication could be sexy? I sure as heck didn't! But, man oh man, did everything about PrEP feel sexy! And a little bit nerve-racking. For some mysterious reason, I became very nervous roughly two hours before my appointment. "Am I really going through with this," I kept asking myself. For reassurance, I tried to keep in mind that getting on PrEP didn't mean I had to have sex if I didn't want to - it's a preventative measure, after all. But as soon as I arrived and signed in for my appointment, that fear had vanished, and in its place was a sense of exhilaration: I WAS going through with this! Just like with my previous visit, wait time was virtually non-existent, within 5 or so minutes I was already with the doc -a different one from before, but still friendly and professional. She walked me through my test results, took my vitals, and ran me through a new questionnaire. Remember how I mentioned before that I wanted to change my or...

The Top Problem

 And I mean "Top" as in the position I've been on a wicked gayphoria roll lately -going as far as wanting to scream "I'm gay" to anyone who would listen. In fact, I recently stumbled upon a friend of mine, in an online space, with whom I haven't spoken in ages, and I wanted to tell them, with desperation , so many things; I wanted to tell them I'm gay now, that I'm getting on PrEP, that I'm love with cock, and am looking to have lots and lots of gay sex. Unfortunately we were on a public forum thus I kept all this to myself, which wasn't easy because I was BURSTING. More than anything, I wanted to tell them how happy and proud I felt. But what's this got to do with "top" problems? Good question! I'm a remarkably skeptical person, at least when it comes to matters of keen interest to me, and as such I'm frequently filled with questions and suspicions. In this case, my brain had doubts about this gayphoria, thinking ...

PrEPping Up!

I had my first PrEP consultation today* And it was a far better experience than I imagined! (*I guess at time of publication, it was technically yesterday, but it was accurate at time of writing!!) There's a lot of options online for getting on PrEP, but I'm wary of online subscriptions, and of getting medicine in the mail in general. There's nothing inherently wrong with it -one of my exes got her HRT via USPS- but I do prefer serious things like these to be handled human-to-human. So I looked for local options, instead, and found a few clinics that would prescribe it. Most interesting, however, was the fact that CVS has these things called MinuteClinics at some participating locations. Now, I am partial to Walgreens, myself, not least because my nearest pharmacy happens to be one of those, but I figured that you can't really beat the portability and ease of access that a national chain offers over local clinics, so I gave it a shot. And boy am I glad I did! Getting my...