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Antibiotics To Prevent STIs – For Or Against?
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Read the article here, click on this link:
https://www.aidsmap.com/news/feb-2021/antibioti...

posted February 15, 2021
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A myHIVteam Member

No. Not unless they are necessary. Antibiotics should never be used as a prophylaxis.

posted February 16, 2021
A myHIVteam Member

I'm against them being used for prophylaxis because then your body uses up one antibiotic it could use when fighting important infections. I'm already allergic to two antibiotics so I need the rest to fight ones I get, not sexually. Like KenWarner said sex, what is sex?

posted February 16, 2021
A myHIVteam Member

Honey, good information but my days at the sti clinic are O-V-E- R. No more drive bys for me. My days of using crystal meth are over. That shit almost put me under and I don't say Almost lightly.

posted February 15, 2021 (edited)
A myHIVteam Member

I was on amoxicillin for 6 years after I got out of the hospital for PCP ! Just got sick of taking them and stopped ! Other then that I’ve taken antibiotics a few times for tooth infections ! Sex what’s sex ?

posted February 15, 2021
A myHIVteam Member

I have been on Antibiotics since my diagnoses in May 2019. I am on them to prevent opportunistic infections. My numbers were critically low at my time of diagnosis, due to the fact that my number will probably never rebound and grow to where they should be...I take Bactrim just to be safe and stay well.

posted February 15, 2021

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