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What Exactly Is Testim For

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Ask the Experts

What are the risks of using a testosterone gel, testim?

Can you advise me exactly what the statistical risks of prostate cancer for users of testim, testosterone gel and how do they increase with prolonged use?...
Keith Henry, M.D.

Response from Keith Henry, M.D.

University of Minnesota, School of Medicine
This forum is exclusively for the discussion of side effects of HIV treatment (antiretroviral therapy). Long-term use of testosterone replacement has not been well-studied (for example compared to hormone replacement in women which is a very... Read more »

Testim by Auxilium

Has Testim been approved for treatment in HIV? Is this similar to Androgel? What can you tell me... Read more »

Testim

Nelson,My doc prescribed me testim 1 at one pack a day. My test levels are arond 700 but my... Read more »
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U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

HIV Exacts Big Cost in South

The South is currently home to more than half of the 1.1 million people living with HIV/AIDS in the United States, according to the Southern AIDS Coalition (SAC). In 2006, the federal government revised the formula for Ryan White distributions,... Read more »
MyFabulousDisease.com

(Not Exactly) Like a Prayer

Soon, as many families take a seat at their holiday table, after the food is set but just before the feasting begins, a paralyzing moment will occur. What now? They'll wonder, glancing left and right. Should we pray? Uncomfortable seconds will... Read more »
TheBody.com

What Exactly Is a Mutation? And What Are All Those Numbers About?

To make it easier to work with HIV resistance tests, researchers have a shorthand system for naming HIV mutations. An HIV "mutation" is actually just a slight change in a specific section of HIV's RNA, the genetic code that provides all the... Read more »
AIDS Survival Project

Making a Fresh Start in California

I am now a resident of California. Oakland, California to be exact. Oakland is a half-hour drive over the Bay Bridge or a 15-minute rapid rail ride away from San Francisco. I didn't feel like I needed to live in San Francisco, possibly the queerest... Read more »
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EXACT Exposure

Posted by Anonymous, 2 Replies
Ok....So everyone wants to know my exact exposure....Here goes. I was in a bath house in Miami (REALLY STUPID IN KNOW!) I had my cock sucked by some guy in the steam room. Then back in my room I had my cock sucked by a guy along with some... Read more »

What exactly is safe sex?

Posted by Anonymous, 2 Replies
What exactly is safe sex? Is it practicing oral sex? And what is mutual masturbation? I've heard that its when you masturbate yourself in front of your parter but it seems to not make any sense. I thought that you were suppose to touch your partner... Read more »

Exactly what do you consider to be protection?...

Posted by dsaklad, 3 Replies
Participants writing to this forum have mentioned protected sex or using protection.
 Different people have different ideas about what constitutes protected sex.
 Even different partners in a relationship have different ideas about what is... Read more »

what exactly are floaters?

Posted by worldly, 1 Reply
I keep seeing little specs when I look is that normal?

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