Truvada
I’m a 20 year-old in college and I’ve had pretty bad experiences with sex/health concerns and I think I’ve developed an overall bad relationship with sex just to preface.
In the past I have been on oral prep, but had trouble taking it consistently. I got off the pill and met with a doctor to get put on an injectable. It took a while for my insurance to approve the shot so my doctor told me to continue taking Truvada.
I started on Truvada again— I was on it for a week and took two pills the first day to jumpstart things. I’m really nervous that I could’ve missed a pill within that week, I don’t think I did, but I can’t remember.
A week from when I first started it, I hooked up with a guy. I was really intoxicated and before the guy came over I took two more pills thinking that would do something. I’m pretty sure I only had oral sex with the guy/ no ejaculation. I remember him putting his finger inside of me and I’m really afraid he could’ve stuck his penis in me without me being aware— what if I didn’t remember. Clearly I was too drunk which is another lesson this situation has taught me.
I guess I’m just really scared that if that did happen, the prep hadn’t been in my system long enough to do anything.
After this incident, I went to the doctor and got my first dose of injectable prep. They tested me there and it was negative obviously but I’m still really scared for these next few weeks. What if the injectable prep creates a false negative? What if the prep I was on didn’t work? What if I didn’t take the prep long enough or missed a dose?
I don’t know feeling really scared and overwhelmed. Pretty new to stuff like this and any advice would be appreciated.