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What is longest period of time HIV+ without...
#216431 - 11/30/06 09:37 PM
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...progression to AIDS?
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There really isn't anyway to give an answer to your question. It would require knowing the exact time when a person first acquired HIV. Most people have no idea when they were first infected.
You would also need to know at what point the disease progressed to AIDS. Many of those same people that couldn't tell you when they became infected, also never found out they were infected until the appearance of an OI, most often PCP, but they may have had a CD4 count lower than 200 (one critera for diagnosing AIDS) for any given period of time before the OI appeared.
Why?
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All depends on how well you take care of yourself, how soon you found out, or how late.
My husband was diagnosed in the late stages of AIDS, and he still survived 10 years after diagnosis.
People live for 20+ years with HIV. I've been positive for 12+ years and undetectable and 400+ CD4.
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I received my diagnosis from the Red Cross in September 1984 after I gave blood at a company bllod drive. I was lucky as the CDC in Atlanta was beta testing blood screening at the time. The letter from the Red Cross said I had HTLVIII, the name of HIV before Gallo and the Pasteur institute agreed to share credit for finding the infective agent in AIDS, or GRID as it was called in those days.
I did not have an opportunistic infection until April 2004 when I came down with PCP with 374 CD4 and a viral load of 375K. A PCP infection caused me officially to have AIDS under CDC guidelines. So for 20 years, I did not have AIDS; and, I went off meds in 1998 after taking AZT, DDI and D4T for four years.
Since then I've had a host of issues, many linked to meds and some linked to HIV infection. My 20 AIDS free years were a roller coaster ride as you can imagine; but, I'm still here and relatively healthy. Of late, I've developed some diminsihment of motor and cognitive abilities linked to HIV's effect on my nervous system and brain. These effects become apparent over a very long term and shouldn't worry about them now.
The tests for motor function impairment involve painful electric shocks to your peripheral nerves that are to be avoided at all costs. You must be in dire straits to put yourself through these tests beleive me; I had them yesterday and my hands and feet still hurt.
Be of good cheer, friend, you have a very long and healthy time ahead of you.
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Hey dude... from one idiot to another.....who cares!!!!!
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ScotCharles
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Who cares? Really no one cares about another person. As for you, I don't care for you. I am glad you characterize yourself as an idiot, that seems right. However, I am not an idiot. I caught HIV before it had a name, dearie.
AIDS eventually causes organic brain disease, perhaps yours will happen earlier rather than later.
Ta Ta for Now.
Scotcharles
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The better question is: how many people who are HIV+ progress to AIDS when they are on medication and how many without medication?
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Easy, without medication you progress to AIDS within ten years while with medication it may take 20 years or more to progress to AIDS.
Cheers,
ScotCharles
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that would all depend on when you caught it,and the time frame of when your diagnosed,and also how far along when you get your meds if you needed them,plus it attacks everyone differently,so to try and get an actuall number really isnt realistic.i guess all you can do is lisyen to your doc and hope the treatment given is correct,and who knows mabey theres new meds to do even more than the ones out on the market now.guess i just made you more confused but i dont think you can judge how it will progress from another person as you can be sure they are doing everything they can to help out the situation.
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that too proposes that all the preventitive medicines are taken and done correctly,to many variables for an exact amount of time,to many variables for a guess either
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D; you mean theres a check out time at this hotel?im not going,call security,im not leaving till the hotel closes
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The better question is: how many people progress to AIDS with medication (very few) and how many without medication (a lot).
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