Author Topic: Adherence is for Losers (Read 17407 times)

Matty the Damned · « **on:** March 11, 2008, 07:26:53 pm »

My numbers are in and it seems I got away with my little drug holiday of November last.

Matty the Damned don't need no steenkin' adherence.

As always and by way of perspective, my previous numbers:

November 2007

VL: 60,500 (up from <40)
CD4 Abs: 175 (down from 204)
CD4 %: 7 (down from 12)

And the latest results which mean I can be as adherent or non-adherent as I damn well wanna be:

March 2008

VL: <40 therefore undetectable
CD4 Abs: 256
CD4 %: 16

Cholestrol, triglycerides and liver function all a bit screwy, but what can ya do?

Heh.

MtD

Mouse · « **Reply #1 on:** March 11, 2008, 07:39:23 pm »

fearless · « **Reply #2 on:** March 11, 2008, 07:41:58 pm »

Why does that not surprise me, Matty.

Well done

sharkdiver · « **Reply #3 on:** March 11, 2008, 07:46:17 pm »

Good news!

hugs,

Shaaaaaaaaarkie
(who loves defying the lastest reseach on drug holidays as well)

thunter34 · « **Reply #4 on:** March 11, 2008, 07:52:09 pm »

Quote from: matty.the.damned on March 11, 2008, 07:26:53 pm

My numbers are in and it seems I got away with my little drug holiday of November last.

Matty the Damned don't need no steenkin' adherence.

As always and by way of perspective, my previous numbers:

November 2007

VL: 60,500 (up from <40)
CD4 Abs: 175 (down from 204)
CD4 %: 7 (down from 12)

And the latest results which mean I can be as adherent or non-adherent as I damn well wanna be:

March 2008

VL: <40 therefore undetectable
CD4 Abs: 256
CD4 %: 16

Cholestrol, triglycerides and liver function all a bit screwy, but what can ya do?

Heh.

MtD

Writing in the 1st person? Quoted for posterity.

pozguy75 · « **Reply #5 on:** March 11, 2008, 07:56:27 pm »

Amazing...simpling amaaaazing dahlink!

AlanBama · « **Reply #6 on:** March 11, 2008, 07:57:05 pm »

Honey, whatever you're doing (or NOT doing) seems to be working for you.

Those numbers are looking pretty good!

My friend J. regulary takes med holidays; he just struggles with adherence, and always has. He is a LTS, and he may be off meds for a month or two, and his VL will creep up, but so far, he has always been able to get it back under control when he started taking his meds again. I guess it just proves that we are all different, and you have to learn what works for you and what doesn't.

Good for you Matty!

Matty the Damned · « **Reply #7 on:** March 11, 2008, 08:13:09 pm »

Writing in the 1st person? Quoted for posterity.

Second sentence, YPT:

Matty the Damned don't need no steenkin' adherence.

MtD

BT65 · « **Reply #8 on:** March 11, 2008, 09:45:15 pm »

Glad to see your numbers improve, Damned One.

anniebc · « **Reply #9 on:** March 11, 2008, 10:01:20 pm »

Quote from: Bettytacy on March 11, 2008, 09:45:15 pm

Glad to see your numbers improve, Damned One.

All we have to do now is improve the man himself..

Good numbers Matty, it's good to see things going in the right direction.

Hugs
Jan

Dachshund · « **Reply #10 on:** March 11, 2008, 11:36:39 pm »

And the latest results which mean I can be as adherent or non-adherent as I damn well wanna be:

We'll see about that.

Aunt Doxie

komnaes · « **Reply #11 on:** March 12, 2008, 02:11:03 am »

Quote from: Dachshund on March 11, 2008, 11:36:39 pm

And the latest results which mean I can be as adherent or non-adherent as I damn well wanna be:

We'll see about that.

Aunt Doxie

Don't encourage him auntie...

red_Dragon888 · « **Reply #12 on:** March 12, 2008, 04:45:05 am »

cubbybear · « **Reply #13 on:** March 12, 2008, 06:13:29 am »

I'm jealous babe... you even stop treatment and your CD4 count is higher than mine! LOL. I'm so ripped off!

xox
Matt

LatinAlexander · « **Reply #14 on:** March 12, 2008, 02:25:20 pm »

Nice numbers Matty

Alex

Miss Philicia · « **Reply #15 on:** March 12, 2008, 02:49:45 pm »

Can I post my numbers now?

Winiroo · « **Reply #16 on:** March 12, 2008, 04:28:08 pm »

Next thing you know your going to start calling yourself an enigma.

LOL

I went a couple of years w/o taking my meds and did fine. I maintained my tcell count and an undetectable viral load.

I tried it again a few years later and my tcells plummeted to 22 and my viral load shot up super high. 750,000 or some crap like that.

Just be cautious and make sure you keep up with your numbers.

Mike2008 · « **Reply #17 on:** March 12, 2008, 06:22:05 pm »

Congratulations Mr. Damned. Do you suffer from the side effects of your regimen? Is that why you would want to stop meds? If so, I am glad you could get some relief.

Matty the Damned · « **Reply #18 on:** March 12, 2008, 06:24:37 pm »

Nope, no side effects except for some minor cholesterol issues.

MtD

Queen Tokelove · « **Reply #19 on:** March 12, 2008, 06:56:53 pm »

Congrats on the numbers, My Beloved One. I have been on a 2 day vacation from all my meds but am going to start back tomorrow, I'm too chicken shit to risk going any longer.

newt · « **Reply #20 on:** March 12, 2008, 07:53:28 pm »

Ahem, you are a lucky fuck mr

Adherence is for winners and losers and you set a bad example. Or maybe a good one, dunno...mr square me when it comes to adherence. Seen too many people die.

All credit to you, but llike I said, lucky arse.

Fuck a kangaroo drag queen for me

- matt

aztecan · « **Reply #21 on:** March 12, 2008, 11:32:10 pm »

Nice comeback Comrade, but don't get too cocky or I'll have a chat with Frau Eva.

Quote from: newt on March 12, 2008, 07:53:28 pm

All credit to you, but like I said, lucky arse.

- matt

Yes, a lucky one for sure, or maybe just too damn subborn to give in.

I never could resist a stubborn redhead.

HUGS,

Mark

northernguy · « **Reply #22 on:** March 13, 2008, 12:31:10 pm »

You truly exist outside the laws of nature, lucky fella

poz1970 · « **Reply #23 on:** March 15, 2008, 04:15:29 pm »

I'm curioius, do you drink lots of water? -- my doc has sorta said that drinking lots of water makes the liver's job easier (?)

J

Matty the Damned · « **Reply #24 on:** March 15, 2008, 04:22:04 pm »

No, but I do drink the blood of Mormon babies. I'm not sure what it does for the liver but it works wonders on the complexion.

MtD

Iggy · « **Reply #25 on:** March 15, 2008, 04:23:07 pm »

Quote from: poz1970 on March 15, 2008, 04:15:29 pm

I'm curioius, do you drink lots of water? -- my doc has sorta said that drinking lots of water makes the liver's job easier (?)

J

I warn thee in advance to not presume to gleem any form of medical guidelines from the luck of MTD's results. I also sincerely doubt that he meant his subject line as a guidance for any but those with a sense of irony and humor.

Dachshund · « **Reply #26 on:** March 15, 2008, 04:27:20 pm »

I warn thee in advance to not presume to gleem any form of medical guidelines from the luck of MTD's results.

Gleem? Ain't that a toothpaste?

Iggy · « **Reply #27 on:** March 15, 2008, 04:41:50 pm »

Dachshund - Ain't that a bitch? At least the female dog variety.

Dachshund · « **Reply #28 on:** March 15, 2008, 04:51:35 pm »

Quote from: Iggy on March 15, 2008, 04:41:50 pm

Dachshund - Ain't that a bitch? At least the female dog variety.

What I glean from this is someone lacks a sense of humor.

Iggy · « **Reply #29 on:** March 15, 2008, 05:03:40 pm »

LOL - as spoken by the true authority on such matters. Why before you know it - a certain same busybody might just send someone a pm saying how so many people were supporting one and then in the next breath post a public statement claiming ridicule at such notions....Ahh what humor.

sharkdiver · « **Reply #30 on:** March 15, 2008, 05:23:40 pm »

the only definition I found for gleem came from the Urban Dictionary
and it was a slang word for loser or retard (in a bad sense not that I am implying that anyone who is developmentally delayed is a loser)

Dachshund · « **Reply #31 on:** March 15, 2008, 05:32:26 pm »

Just for the record I was making a funny. I remember Gleem toothpaste growing up as a kid.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Gleem_with_GL-70_ad_from_TIME.png

Iggy · « **Reply #32 on:** March 15, 2008, 05:37:12 pm »

Great record.

Dachshund · « **Reply #33 on:** March 15, 2008, 05:45:51 pm »

Quote from: Iggy on March 15, 2008, 05:37:12 pm

Great record.

I give it an 84. Nice melody, but you can't dance to it.

Iggy · « **Reply #34 on:** March 15, 2008, 05:48:33 pm »

White man's overbite, but yes - one can dance to it...as long as they don't mind the occasional and incessant skips in the record.

cubbybear · « **Reply #35 on:** March 15, 2008, 07:49:18 pm »

Quote from: matty.the.damned on March 15, 2008, 04:22:04 pm

No, but I do drink the blood of Mormon babies. I'm not sure what it does for the liver but it works wonders on the complexion.

MtD

LOL I just spat coffee on my keyboard.

gregftl · « **Reply #36 on:** March 15, 2008, 08:22:52 pm »

let me get this straight. u are actually happy to have a 65,000 viral load and tcells at only 150-250?? i dont think adherence is the thing here. i think perhaps u need to be on some different meds......and keep taking them. i've been on the same meds for 8yrs now and have tcells near 850 and no viral load. how someone can be happy to have numbers that officially deem them with having AIDS is beyond me. if i was in your shoes i'd be scared out of my mind.

BT65 · « **Reply #37 on:** March 15, 2008, 08:23:49 pm »

Quote from: gregftl on March 15, 2008, 08:22:52 pm

let me get this straight. u are actually happy to have a 65,000 viral load and tcells at only 150-250?? i dont think adherence is the thing here. i think perhaps u need to be on some different meds......and keep taking them. i've been on the same meds for 8yrs now and have tcells near 850 and no viral load. how someone can be happy to have numbers that officially deem them with having AIDS is beyond me. if i was in your shoes i'd be scared out of my mind.

You obviously don't know our Damned One.

Matty the Damned · « **Reply #38 on:** March 15, 2008, 09:16:35 pm »

let me get this straight. u are actually happy to have a 65,000 viral load and tcells at only 150-250??

No, I simply accept if for what it is. Although, my viral load is not 60,500 anymore. It's undetectable.

i dont think adherence is the thing here. i think perhaps u need to be on some different meds......and keep taking them.

And Paris Hilton wants us to think she's an actor, but it ain't gonna happen. I don't need to be on different meds (I take Reyetaz/Norvir/Kivexa) because my resistance testing shows no mutations and obviously they still work. That's kinda why I'm bragging at the moment. I took a drug holiday, had a viral rebound and I got away with.

So

to you.

i've been on the same meds for 8yrs now and have tcells near 850 and no viral load. how someone can be happy to have numbers that officially deem them with having AIDS is beyond me. if i was in your shoes i'd be scared out of my mind.

As I noted earlier I'm not happy I have AIDS, but I'm not scared of it either. I'm reconciled to it. I've got better things to do than live in fear. Oh, and if you were in my shoes you'd being wearing some faaaaaaaaabulous footwear, darling.

MtD

Miss Philicia · « **Reply #39 on:** March 15, 2008, 09:43:37 pm »

Quote from: gregftl on March 15, 2008, 08:22:52 pm

let me get this straight. u are actually happy to have a 65,000 viral load and tcells at only 150-250?? i dont think adherence is the thing here. i think perhaps u need to be on some different meds......and keep taking them. i've been on the same meds for 8yrs now and have tcells near 850 and no viral load. how someone can be happy to have numbers that officially deem them with having AIDS is beyond me. if i was in your shoes i'd be scared out of my mind.

Matty has dementia so we all just try and humor him. Just use your scroll wheel next time you see one of his lame threads.

sharkdiver · « **Reply #40 on:** March 15, 2008, 09:55:47 pm »

Quote from: gregftl on March 15, 2008, 08:22:52 pm

let me get this straight. u are actually happy to have a 65,000 viral load and tcells at only 150-250?? i dont think adherence is the thing here. i think perhaps u need to be on some different meds......and keep taking them. i've been on the same meds for 8yrs now and have tcells near 850 and no viral load. how someone can be happy to have numbers that officially deem them with having AIDS is beyond me. if i was in your shoes i'd be scared out of my mind.

maybe you are a little scared right now. I guess it would be scary if you didn't have an AIDS diagnosis. Some people, like me, have had that diagnosis for a long, long time now. But like other things, you can just learn to deal with it and just try to live a full life as much as you can.

Sharkie
(who thinks fear sucks)

Matty the Damned · « **Reply #41 on:** March 15, 2008, 09:59:03 pm »

Matty has dementia so we all just try and humor him. Just use your scroll wheel next time you see one of his lame threads.

True, but at least I have a full head of lustrous healthy hair Philodendron.

MtD

Miss Philicia · « **Reply #42 on:** March 15, 2008, 10:16:06 pm »

Quote from: matty.the.damned on March 15, 2008, 09:59:03 pm

Matty has dementia so we all just try and humor him. Just use your scroll wheel next time you see one of his lame threads.

True, but at least I have a full head of lustrous healthy hair Philodendron.

MtD

Darling, what good is your head of hair when it's that nasty red color and emphasizes your seborrheic dermatitis?

MOONLIGHT1114 · « **Reply #43 on:** March 15, 2008, 10:22:19 pm »

"Yay, MtD."

LOL

Matty the Damned · « **Reply #44 on:** March 15, 2008, 10:27:50 pm »

Darling, what good is your head of hair when it's that nasty red color and emphasizes your seborrheic dermatitis?

I don't really see it as seb derm, rather I consider myself to have distinctive markings. Much like your lipo gives your face a distinguished weathered appearance luvvie.

MtD

Miss Philicia · « **Reply #45 on:** March 15, 2008, 10:38:25 pm »

Quote from: matty.the.damned on March 15, 2008, 10:27:50 pm

Much like your lipo gives your face a distinguished weathered appearance luvvie.

MtD

Actually all male models have lipo. I've decided I make way too much out of it, and now embrace it with a pair of APC distressed denim jeans and a Margiela deconstructed vest.

Dachshund · « **Reply #46 on:** March 16, 2008, 12:01:19 am »

Quote from: Iggy on March 15, 2008, 05:48:33 pm

White man's overbite, but yes - one can dance to it...as long as they don't mind the occasional and incessant skips in the record.

occasional and incessant? neat trick

fearless · « **Reply #47 on:** March 16, 2008, 07:21:41 am »

Quote from: philly267 on March 15, 2008, 10:38:25 pm

Actually all male models have lipo. I've decided I make way too much out of it, and now embrace it with a pair of APC distressed denim jeans and a Margiela deconstructed vest.

I prefer my Nudie's, but I reckon the APC cashmere denim would be lush and fab to wear. What would you pay for a pair of APC's in the US?

Miss Philicia · « **Reply #48 on:** March 16, 2008, 09:34:29 am »

Quote from: fearless on March 16, 2008, 07:21:41 am

I prefer my Nudie's, but I reckon the APC cashmere denim would be lush and fab to wear. What would you pay for a pair of APC's in the US?

Hmmm... can't recall exactly. $150/$200 I think. I was just by the APC store in SoHo a couple of weeks ago but didn't go in. I was always more of a Helmut Lang fanatic, and even have a pair on as I type. Of course, now that Helmut retired the line isn't worth a dime.

Right now it's *ALL* about Swedish ACNE jeans, but I've yet to buy any. I will soon though... a girl MUST keep up, you know

http://www.tobi.com/product/7248-acne-jeans-mod-alternative-skinny-jeans-in-raw-denim-skinny

Shouldn't you be sporting Ksubi?

Robert · « **Reply #49 on:** March 16, 2008, 12:21:36 pm »

give me my Levis (preferably 501's with the button-up fly). The best pair of jeans ever made.

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