Jim Allen:
HIV medically is relatively simple: take your meds and live your life.
My advice is to plan for the future and old age, look after your body as best you can and, more importantly, focus on your mental and emotional well-being.
Tonny2:
--- Quote from: Hope4cure38 on January 14, 2024, 06:36:25 pm ---Hello,
I regretfully inform you that I have recently been diagnosed with HIV. My viral load was 64,000 and my CD4 count is 406.
I am 38 years old with no medical conditions apart from having contracted hepatitis A when I was 14.
Mentally, I feel terrible. I feel like I have let down everyone around me, especially my son. I worry that I won't be there for him as he grows up, and this thought is very scary and depressing.
Ojo. Hello again. I just read this and I like it.
“ He who suffers before it is necessary, will suffer more than necessary“ Seneca
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Hope4cure38:
Thank you Gents! Your comments really help.
People still die because of HIV in today’s days? (I’m talking about the people who are on treatment)
leatherman:
--- Quote from: Hope4cure38 on January 17, 2024, 03:02:11 pm ---People still die because of HIV in today’s days? (I’m talking about the people who are on treatment)
--- End quote --- sometimes those who are diagnosed late, don't fare so well. A lot depends on how sick they were at diagnosis and what other health issues they might have. Even though HIV meds are pretty much a miracle and bring a lot of people back from near death, not everyone is so lucky.
As for those on treatment, sure, because we all die....eventually. ;)
For my peer group (those diagnosed before any HIV meds), those who survived with the first meds, are mostly still kicking here in our 60s and 70s. Of course, every year that we get older, slowly but surely, some are starting to leave us - but that's old age for ya. ;)
So daily take the new nice fancy meds we have now, and expect to live for as long as your health and genetics allow you. (Personally, with all my relatives living into their late 90s and early 100s, at 62 I'm just a little past middle age! ;D )
Tonny2:
--- Quote from: Hope4cure38 on January 17, 2024, 03:02:11 pm ---Thank you Gents! Your comments really help.
People still die because of HIV in today’s days? (I’m talking about the people who are on treatment)
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ojo. Yes, there are people who are still dying from opportunistic infections due to aids, but it is because either they don’t have a good treatment or not treatment at all. Fortunately, for you, you have a good treatment you say that you are in a pretty good health. Nobody dies before his or her time, I am a proof of that. If you have read my thread, you will understand. Now that you are positive you got to be more positive about the future because you have the tool to make it happen. Remember, discipline and a good attitude ,You have so much to live for… please gkeep us posted and hugs