Cohesion
Bluelighter
Hi all.
Yesterday I attended a one-on-one HIV ed meeting. Mandated by my outpatient. It was with an RN and lasted 90 minutes.
Together we assessed how "at risk" I was for contracting HIV in the past year. At first I thought, "I'm not going to explicitly say what I have done." But I did. The first difficult question was, "How many partners have you had in the last year?" I refused to estimate. Then I did. There were more questions. I admitted to behaviors while on MDPV and other substances which lowered my inhibitions.
After we determined play-by-play that I was at very high risk; I was not sitting easy. She went on to prepare me for a positive result. She helped me create a preliminary safety plan by determining things such as who I would tell, if my previous partners were locatable, whether I would tell them or have the Health Department tell them, who I would use for support, the risks of relapse, etc.
At the end, we did a Rapid-Test and, alas, it was Negative. I'm going to get tested again in 3 months.
The biggest reason I didn't use condoms with some of my partners (other than being inhibited) was that my partner approximated "NO I DON'T LIKE CONDOMS". And like a FOOL I did not argue much.
I never walked out of an office feeling in such a daze, a strange sort of sober existence. I will NEVER have unprotected sex with a new partner again.
I've never had 1-on-1 HIV education. It is the way to go. Wrap it up y'all.
Yesterday I attended a one-on-one HIV ed meeting. Mandated by my outpatient. It was with an RN and lasted 90 minutes.
Together we assessed how "at risk" I was for contracting HIV in the past year. At first I thought, "I'm not going to explicitly say what I have done." But I did. The first difficult question was, "How many partners have you had in the last year?" I refused to estimate. Then I did. There were more questions. I admitted to behaviors while on MDPV and other substances which lowered my inhibitions.
After we determined play-by-play that I was at very high risk; I was not sitting easy. She went on to prepare me for a positive result. She helped me create a preliminary safety plan by determining things such as who I would tell, if my previous partners were locatable, whether I would tell them or have the Health Department tell them, who I would use for support, the risks of relapse, etc.
At the end, we did a Rapid-Test and, alas, it was Negative. I'm going to get tested again in 3 months.
The biggest reason I didn't use condoms with some of my partners (other than being inhibited) was that my partner approximated "NO I DON'T LIKE CONDOMS". And like a FOOL I did not argue much.
I never walked out of an office feeling in such a daze, a strange sort of sober existence. I will NEVER have unprotected sex with a new partner again.
I've never had 1-on-1 HIV education. It is the way to go. Wrap it up y'all.
