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Main Forums => Positive Women => Topic started by: Brooke P. on January 10, 2010, 11:05:46 am
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Well I started have some pain in my chest and didn't really know what was going on. It was so bad that I couldn't eat anything and could hardly even drink anything. I went to doctor after doctor trying to figure out what was wrong with me. They thought everything from heart attack to acid reflux. After about a week and a half of going to the doctors my mother finally took me to the ER. They found out that I had a yeast infection in my esophagus. After that I went back to my primary doctor for a follow up and I asked him what could have caused this. He said that either diabetes, oral sex or HIV. They had already checked for diabetes and oral sex could have been it but they wanted to check for HIV just in case even though I was a healthy person he didn't think that was the problem. Well he was wrong! After I left there he had made an appointment with an ID doctor and so off I went in complete shock. I was a healthy 23 year old female who had been with the same partner for the past 2 1/2 years, how could this happen? Well my boyfriend was not as faithful as I thought. I started taking Combivir and Kaletra and continued to take those meds from Feb. 2003 to June 2004. I didn't know what to do being off of meds. It was a freedom that I hadn't known in 16 months.
I found out in Jan. 2005 that I was pregnant and I was again shocked beyond belief. I remembered back to when I was diagnosed and thought that I would never be able to have a healthy child. Well after much research I found out that was not entirely true. I now have a wonderful healthy 4 year old boy, Boone!
Needless to say my son's father and I are not together anymore and his health is greatly declining because he waited too long to get any treatment. So now I am a single working mother.
After my son was born I was taken off of my meds and I was off of them for 4 years and 2 months. Now I have been on Atripla since Oct. 2009 and I am responding wonderfully to it. :)
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Welcome, Brooke! I think you will enjoy the ladies forum, it is great place to talk with women with the same or similar stories.
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Hi Brooke!
How great that you have a healthy son. Welcome. There are a number of women here who have children.
Em
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Welcome to the forums, Brooke, particularly our women's family. The ladies here are great in every way.
I was with my daughter's father for 8 years, and he's the one who infected me (that's the way the evidence points). He died in 1989, though, right when I tested poz.
Anyway, it's great to have you with us! Stay in touch-
Betty
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Thank you for the warm welcome! For some reason this is the first time I've ever been on here. I don't know of anyone around here that is HIV+ so it helps me to have others to talk to that understand what I'm going through.
Betty I ended upi staying with my son's father until Nov 2006 but I was so tired of all his crap that I couldn't take it anymore. My son and I are so much better off without him in the house. He couldn't really deal with being HIV+ and therefore he drank to take his mind off of it. I guess thinking that would somehow solve the problem.
Now I have met a wonderful man and we have been together for a little over 2 years now and things are great. Although it is can be tough at times because he is not + but we seem to work around that. Not to mention my son adores him!
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WELCOME BROOKE, I AM SO HAPPY FOR YOU! :)
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welcome brooke!
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wonderful and inspiring story, thanks Brooke.
i m keeping my fingers crossed on meeting a right guy for me....i once thought it was impossible coz i m poz. but i know it can happen! :)
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It can happen to you too. I met a wonderful guy we have been dating for 3 months now. We are both poz, we met on this web site. Hang in there, life does go on. Mary