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Main Forums => Pre-HAART Long-Term Survivors => Topic started by: irishkimmie on July 12, 2009, 04:57:02 pm
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i have been 23 yrs poz now it will be 24 yrs on the 27th november and i am still goin so strong i think god wants me to do some thing on this earth but big believer in PMA and laughter :-* any more long termers in here as well and do they feel their virus ?????
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Hello I will have been poz 21 years officially in the beginning of August.But was infected three years before some one asked me how can you be sure because before I got sick had been with one person.Besides the point you asked if any of the long timer felt the virus the answer is yes and some time hear a imaginary clock ticking and my doctor got concerned so that is how I feel.It makes it hard that I am no longer part of a couple but he is there when I need.Less problems now!Love has always been there but not enough to be a couple.Oh well a lot happier!
Dwayne AKA Dwayn20
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Hello & Welcome to the forums irishkimmie,
There are some wonderful people here and I hope you join in the discussions.
Hugs,
AA
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Hi Kimmie
I'm not a LTS..and shouldn't really be in here but being a global Moderator I can get away with it, but for the most part I just try and slip in now and again and quietly slip out before anyone notices me.. ;D
I just wanted to welcome you to the forums, I'm sure after 24 years you can give us a few lessons, and along with the other LTS help those who are new to all this.
Hope to hear more from you.
Hugs
Jan
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Hey Irish,
Welcome to the forums. I've been diagnosed 20 years. I don't know if I'm clear in what you're asking about lts'ers "feeling their virus." Yeah, I'm more tired than I used to be, oh, lots more things. But, I'm still alive. That's worth something.
Luv,
Betty
And Jan, you're o.k. to slink is once in awhile I suppose. ;)
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Hey Welcome!
Glad you found us! I just passed the 24 year mark myself this May. what do you mean feel the virus? just curious
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Sharkie
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hi you guys and thanks u for welcoming me in the site it ben interesting so far and yes sure Jan any time u would like me to help those newly poz i will gladly help them with some reassuring words , OK what i mean about feeling the virus !!!!! is i feel it when my tablets are wreaking i feel it when they are not wreaking i feel it when i am going down hill and also feel it when i am UN top off the world with it , if Ur in tune with Ur hiv u also can feel it Ur self i dint know some off u heard of PMA positive mental attuned in which i live on every day of my life , this might sound really daft to some of u lot .
but while u lay in bed close your eyes and think off u in side Ur veins think off Ur virus being a army that is coming to attack you , and u are on the other side of it think that u alone, as the virus is coming to kill u that you are beating it with every thing u can get Ur hands or bats, sticks your fists i know it might seem silly but trust me if u can do that then u can connect with your virus and then u can tell Ur virus what to do not it tell in you what it is going to do , i think it is about finding ur innner self , but trust me it works look how long i have lived for and last yr was the first time i EVER got sick . TRY IT and let me know
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"... while u lay in bed close your eyes and think off u in side Ur veins think off Ur virus being a army that is coming to attack you , and u are on the other side of it think that u alone, as the virus is coming to kill u that you are beating it with every thing u can get Ur hands or bats, sticks your fists i know it might seem silly but trust me if u can do that then u can connect with your virus and then u can tell Ur virus what to do not it tell in you what it is going to do , i think it is about finding ur innner self , but trust me it works look how long i have lived for and last yr was the first time i EVER got sick . TRY IT and let me know "
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Well, I did visulation ( such as the above) 20 years ago. It just seemed that after a few years it had no more meaning for me. Not to say it isnt a useful practice, but I personally felt it held no useful purpose for me anymore.
I think in the early years of being infected everyone should try some form of stress reduction. Whatever works for you. Whether it has any affect on CD4s or longevity...who knows.
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Yeah, I used visualization also in the early-middle 90's. I still got very sick. It sounds very Bernie Seagel-ish. For anyone who may not know, he was a doctor who treated cancer patients, and they would visualize their body attacking the cancer. He was around in the early 90's, a lot like the Louise Hayes' were.
Like Joel said, whatever works.
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I did the visualization thing in the 90's also; we tried it ALL back then, crystals, rei kei, you name it....
It certainly did help! Like Joel, I find it doesn't work much for me anymore. I think the best way to deal with my virus is to NOT think about it! I am just so thankful my meds have it under control, and so blessed to still be alive to enjoy each day. But believe me, I get plenty of reminders....the pills, the bills, the endless trips to the clinic for this and that.....sure wish I could take a "viral vacation" for a few weeks!
Welcome to the LTS forum!
hugs, Alan