Former gay porn star Kameron Scott,
real name Ryan Dixon, has begun an online diary chronicling his HIV
status.
In the diary hosted by gay website
SFGN.com, Scott discusses his progress on an HIV regimen.
In 2009, following his performance in
Titan's Playbook, Scott found out he had contracted the virus
and he retired from the adult film business soon afterward.
“I found out December 15, 2008,” he
said. “I had just signed a contract with a new studio. The first
person I called was my agent, Baileey. He was really quiet when I
told him; he's usually such a ham on the phone. That made me realize
the severity of things.”
Scott first publicly disclosed his
reasons behind his retirement in a 2010 interview with TheSword.com.
In his latest diary entry, Scott
announced that “after two weeks on medication, my viral load went
from 4781 to nearly zero.”
“No I'm not cured, but from what the
labs at Gilead said, it's hard to detect the virus in my blood. The
virus is still there, but the HIV virus is a retro virus that needs a
host to replicate. Since the medicine I'm on is stopping that
replicating process, the copies of the virus has dropped
drastically.”
Scott said that the results of his
first month on HIV medication were the best news he's had in four
years.
“I've gone from wondering what this
virus is going to do to me, wondering if I had the strength to fight
it on my own, to getting some of the best medical care in the world
and having a breakthrough in my treatment for the first time [since]
my diagnosis.”
“I'm a believer now,” he
added. “You can't always do things by yourself.”