After these web gabbers gave the OK, Gene Chance of HIVstraight.com sent POZ this excerpt of a recent chat on his site. Put on your eavesdrop goggles and scroll on down. (One cyber-chat translation: LOL=laugh out loud. For others, check out www.netlingo.com)
gene316: what other drugs have you been on pnw? Suzie958: imagine if she drank or did drugs pnw: legal ones gene? fuzzypony3: she needs NO help :-) gene316: hiv meds lol pnw: ohhhh. i took crix and azt and zerit for awhile but i think azt makes me sick now fuzzypony3: it sucks—my mind just blanks out gene316: why did you stop it fuzzypony3: still on sustiva and combivir pnw: i stopped cause i kept missing the afternoon doses and i started it again when i went in the hospital last year gene316: well why dont you try it with norvir and then you can take it 2 a day pnw: prolly gonna have to do something. more pills Suzie958: i had to stop taking meds 3 times a day kept forgetting that middle dose pnw: thats what i did suzie gene316: ok switch to other drugs of that class that you havent taken pnw: combivir is out gene316: azt, ddi, ddc pnw: retrovir is too fuzzypony3: why is combivir out pnw? pnw: i think thats what made me sick last year gene. the azt gene316: well combivir would have been a good choice pnw: they never could tell me why i was sick fuzzypony3: azt probs—ow gene316: could be pnw: nothing was apparently wrong with me other than the fevers and the aches gene316: also if you can have a genotype test done you could find out if you can stay with d4t or 3tc and add them to vir and rit pnw: and that was right after i had restarted azt gene316: that could be side effects of azt fuzzypony3: i had some of those but they went away gene316: you have options pnw: yeah and the t-20 is going thru phase II now Suzie958: i just read that fuzzypony3: how long before t-20 is ok’d? needles—ohhhh noooo gene316: they already have a new formula where they hope it is 1 a day, plus you will have to take other meds with it pnw: yeah i know but this is a whole new way to fight it gene316: so stick me with a needle and give me a handful of pills i dont think so pnw: i hate needles more than most ppl i know gene316: well i will have to be bad off to take that pnw: i think i would too lol…but at least its promising Suzie958: i don’t think i could do needles everyday gene316: i think there will be better things before that pnw: at least they found something other than whats already out there fuzzypony3: good point pnw: i do truly believe that it will come to be like diabetes though…manageable gene316: they expect in a few years fuzzypony3: i hope gene316: and they even hope to have a once a day PI fuzzypony3: Im not allowed to gallop horses anymore due to the sustiva pnw: huh? you a jockey? fuzzypony3: no an exercise rider gene316: fuzzy are you male or female fuzzypony3: male my nick is because i called all horses fuzzypony until i was 5 gene316: oh ok cool Suzie958: gene fuzzy is the guy i was with sat gene316: now i have it fuzzypony3: the one who couldnt dance too well no rhythm, cant dance or spell Suzie958: none at all but he had a good time fuzzypony3: one thing bothers me—why cant they give these DAMNED drugs a name I can PRONOUNCE gene316: lol i hear you pnw: you tell em fuzzy fuzzypony3: i mean good grief! gene316: i always hate that fuzzypony3: whatchamacallitvir or a bunch of letters and/or numbers that sounds like the NAVY came up with gene316: we should email this conversation to POZ pnw: wonder what will happen. ok. i’ll do it. as long as it wont get anyone in trouble fuzzypony3: Hell they'll publish it!! LOL
