TO ALL THE WORRIED WELLS WHO MAY BE READING: I'm going to make reference to some symptoms I'm experiencing at the moment. These symptoms are specific to me and have nothing to do with whatever sick AIDS fantasies may have brought you here. If I find a single, JUST A SINGLE, reference to my symptoms in the Am I Infected forum, direct or otherwise, I will make you symptom shopping shitbags wish you were born dead. That's a 24 karat promise. I mean it. Don't fuck with my shit, people. >:(
That said, thanks to all for your responses, especially Matt for that insight into why I may have funky liver enzymes at the moment. Suddenly it makes sense. :)
--pours drink--
Restarting HAART is something that the Indefatigable Jo, Frau Eva and I discuss often. Frankly, we speak of little else. Many's the time that the Good Frau has my scrotum cupped in her gloved hands whilst feeling my inguinal nodes that she mentions how much easier life would be if I'd "just take those fucking pills, dammit."
And of course she's right. All my nodes are swollen up like the mutant walnuts from hell at the moment and the nightsweats are prodigious to say the least. I despair for my poor mattress. I'm munching on fluconazole like Tic Tacs to bludgeon the candida into place and my seb dermatitis is foul. It's like EVERYWHERE. Even on my damn bum! How can a piggy bottom live like this? I have odious mouth ulcers and I can shit through the eye of a needle.
Never one to whinge, Matty the Damned has a plan, of sorts.
1. I'm going to see my GP, Lady Jane, next week and get my epilepsy medications reviewed AND have that small hypertension issue looked into. The last time I took HAART, I had really ugly LFT's which pretty much subsided when I stopped the HAART. Sodium valproate + lamotrigine + HIV party pills just don't mix. There has to be another way.
2. Once step one is complete (or well under way at any rate), I'll go back to Frau Eva and have repeat bloods drawn in the vain hope that my CD4 % will have miraculously returned to the above 25 region. Once we've confimed that it hasn't (and even if it has) we'll begin the HAART thing. Obviously that will be informed by my epilepsy stuff.
3. I'm going to investigate Zyban as a method to quit smoking. Clearly this step is optional.
4. When all this is done, my numbers will return to an acceptable level, world peace will be declared, Jerusalem will fall and widespread Happy Dancing will break out here in Living With HIV.
The general time frame for me putting steps 1 & 2 into action is 3 weeks. I don't think I'll drop dead before then. But you never know. ;)
So that's the plan. It looks good written down.
MtD
(Who is very grateful for the support he receives here)
TO ALL THE WORRIED WELLS WHO MAY BE READING: I'm going to make reference to some symptoms I'm experiencing at the moment. These symptoms are specific to me and have nothing to do with whatever sick AIDS fantasies may have brought you here. If I find a single, JUST A SINGLE, reference to my symptoms in the Am I Infected forum, direct or otherwise, I will make you symptom shopping shitbags wish you were born dead. That's a 24 karat promise. I mean it. Don't fuck with my shit, people. >:(
That said, thanks to all for your responses, especially Matt for that insight into why I may have funky liver enzymes at the moment. Suddenly it makes sense. :)
--pours drink--
Restarting HAART is something that the Indefatigable Jo, Frau Eva and I discuss often. Frankly, we speak of little else. Many's the time that the Good Frau has my scrotum cupped in her gloved hands whilst feeling my inguinal nodes that she mentions how much easier life would be if I'd "just take those fucking pills, dammit."
And of course she's right. All my nodes are swollen up like the mutant walnuts from hell at the moment and the nightsweats are prodigious to say the least. I despair for my poor mattress. I'm munching on fluconazole like Tic Tacs to bludgeon the candida into place and my seb dermatitis is foul. It's like EVERYWHERE. Even on my damn bum! How can a piggy bottom live like this? I have odious mouth ulcers and I can shit through the eye of a needle.
Never one to whinge, Matty the Damned has a plan, of sorts.
1. I'm going to see my GP, Lady Jane, next week and get my epilepsy medications reviewed AND have that small hypertension issue looked into. The last time I took HAART, I had really ugly LFT's which pretty much subsided when I stopped the HAART. Sodium valproate + lamotrigine + HIV party pills just don't mix. There has to be another way.
2. Once step one is complete (or well under way at any rate), I'll go back to Frau Eva and have repeat bloods drawn in the vain hope that my CD4 % will have miraculously returned to the above 25 region. Once we've confimed that it hasn't (and even if it has) we'll begin the HAART thing. Obviously that will be informed by my epilepsy stuff.
3. I'm going to investigate Zyban as a method to quit smoking. Clearly this step is optional.
4. When all this is done, my numbers will return to an acceptable level, world peace will be declared, Jerusalem will fall and widespread Happy Dancing will break out here in Living With HIV.
The general time frame for me putting steps 1 & 2 into action is 3 weeks. I don't think I'll drop dead before then. But you never know. ;)
So that's the plan. It looks good written down.
MtD
(Who is very grateful for the support he receives here)
Who forgot to clean the cage this time? LOL I love you Matty, you are truely one of a kind.