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Title: POZ Forum article.
Post by: ubotts on November 24, 2007, 11:41:19 am

Well I finally recieved the link..but it doesnt show my photo...
Here it goes Ladies..

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Liz Kahn, a 52-year-old woman who just moved from the Bronx to Bradley Beach, New Jersey, has been living with HIV since 1987. Noticeable fat loss in her legs and arms took her by surprise last year.

"I had no idea this would happen," she says. "I look like Humpty Dumpty with my legs and arms so skinny and my body blown up in the middle."

Though she's normally physically actice, Liz feels her body-shape changes are taking a toll on her lifestyle: "I don't even want to go to the beach... because people say, 'Why are your legs so thin?'"

When Liz's doctors were unresponsive, she went online and looked for information on her own.

Her research led her to switch a part of her treatment regimen (with her doctor), from Combivir to Truvada. Though Liz hopes the switch will keep things from "getting any worse," research suggests it may help her quest to restore the lost fat.

Title: Re: POZ Forum article.
Post by: ubotts on November 24, 2007, 11:42:51 am

Here it is...but no photo was attached to this link..oh well. 
Looking At Options




Liz Kahn, a 52-year-old woman who just moved from the Bronx to Bradley Beach, New Jersey, has been living with HIV since 1987. Noticeable fat loss in her legs and arms took her by surprise last year.

"I had no idea this would happen," she says. "I look like Humpty Dumpty with my legs and arms so skinny and my body blown up in the middle."

Though she's normally physically actice, Liz feels her body-shape changes are taking a toll on her lifestyle: "I don't even want to go to the beach... because people say, 'Why are your legs so thin?'"

When Liz's doctors were unresponsive, she went online and looked for information on her own.

Her research led her to switch a part of her treatment regimen (with her doctor), from Combivir to Truvada. Though Liz hopes the switch will keep things from "getting any worse," research suggests it may help her quest to restore the lost fat.

Title: Re: POZ Forum article.
Post by: Tim Horn on December 08, 2007, 10:22:17 am

Liz:

You -- and everyone else -- can download the POZ Focus, featuring your profile and photo, and open it using Adobe Acrobat -- it's a .pdf file:

http://www.poz.com/pdfs/focus_lipo.pdf (http://www.poz.com/pdfs/focus_lipo.pdf)

Tim Horn

Title: Re: POZ Forum article.
Post by: RapidRod on December 08, 2007, 08:58:45 pm

Liz, I read about you yesterday when I was at the clinic, in POZ Focus. (not on the bathroom wall) ;)

Title: Re: POZ Forum article.
Post by: AlanBama on December 10, 2007, 04:50:29 pm

Hey Liz

Good article!   I also switched from combivir to truvada a few years ago, to try to prevent any further lipo.

Hugs,

Alan (also member of the "class of 1987") 

Title: Re: POZ Forum article.
Post by: emeraldize on December 10, 2007, 06:57:26 pm

Hey Liz!

POZ comes in a wrapping similar to something else I get, which I often set aside until there's time to go through it.

Well, today, I opened the issue with you in it. As I said before. Ubotts, Ubrave, Ugo.

Congrats and thank you for being willing to share valuable, personal information.

Em

Title: Re: POZ Forum article.
Post by: ubotts on December 12, 2007, 01:05:26 pm

I for one is very happy that Tim Horn was able to put the link into group..
When I tried, it was almost impossible..

Anyway..glad no one read it on the bathroom wall.. ;)

Thank you all for you kind words as well.. :-*

Title: Re: POZ Forum article.
Post by: Jeffreyj on December 28, 2007, 01:02:51 am

You are a very courageous women to do an article like that! Good for you. How can you move from the Bronx though. (Home of the Yankees!!!!)

Good luck in Bradley Beach, and all the best with everything you have going on.

xoxo