I'm not sure on which thread to post this but I need to vent and decided to dump it here in case anyone is sympathetic or interested in giving genuine first hand or second hand advice about my situation.
Recently I've been diagnosed with HIV during a health examination and will start taking PEPs this week after going through Third World healthcare bureaucracy, fortunately both of my parents are being supportive and not panicking after understanding how medication works which gives me peace of mind to some extent.
What is keeping me up at night is the way this is bound to affect my dating prospects as a Bi man who doesn't see much success with cis women to begin with but is fairly popular with transgender women.
For example recently I was talking with this pretty attractive lady who wanted to hookup for me to piss in her mouth before I was diagnosed and now is very reluctant about contact even if she says she still likes me and appreciates that I disclosed my status while explaining how becoming undetectable/untransmittable works and being eager to use protection for her sake, after being diagnosed instead of keeping it to myself in fear or ghosting her, just a few hours ago was in a call with her to discuss meeting for talking or having a few drinks together and apparently she won't be able to until next week despite being on vacation since a few days ago I'm not sure if she blocked me on socials or Meta is being dogshit and glitching out.
There is also a second trans chick who also wanted to hook up with me but we just started talking and I'm gonna wait to meet in person for talking and getting to know eachother before disclosing because this whole situation is making me very paranoid about being unlovable even if I become after taking my PEPs for long enough and using protection until and after that undetectable/untransmittable due to stigma
As for how I contracted it, or at least how I suspect it happened, a year ago while living by myself and working a job I fucking hated which made me hate my life every waking hour, I started getting into the party and play scene to cope and went into a 4 days meth binge with two seperate girls where I had unprotected sex where we nutted inside eachother, one which was a sex worker who had cancelled all her appointments to be with me and a few days later after the meth/sex binge I experienced fever, diarrhea and vomiting which I attributed to the drugs at the time b
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