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#2809 - 04/05/00 01:22 PM
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As I mentioned in an earlier posting, I just started a protease-sparing regimen of 3 drugs three days ago. I have had no physical manifestations of HIV other than bad sinus and a reoccuring redness in my left eye with no apparent infection other than allergies. My t-cell were at 325 and viral load at 75,000, but my doctor felt that I should start therapy after being HIV for 10+ years. I am also considering oriental medicine as an adjunct therapy but have no idea if it offers any real benefit. In the meantime, I will continue my heavy supplements, especially anti-oxidants and glutathione. Any other ideas?
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Keep your goals in front of you and remember numbers are not everything.
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No I don't think there is any RIGHT answer. It's a hard choice. But knowing too many people who died BEFORE these drugs became available I don't see another option. I DO NOT want to get Toxo or CMV or lymphoma as many of my friends did and die in an excruciatingly painful way. To avoid that I am taking the meds--but only now when I really have no other options. Are these drugs toxic. Probably in some way they are. But I am buying time and am willing to take almost any risk in order to forestall death and illness. I wish herbs worked! But they have saved no one's life (or else there would be hope for Africans and Indians with HIV). Life is tough.
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wow!! don't be so defensive.. we are all on the meds in this string so why fight us? We know the drugs are toxic or else they would not be killing the virus. The question is what are the long term effects? We don't know since there is no one who has been on any of these new drugs "long term". We all are taking the cocktail in whatever form in hopes of improving our lives and hopefully prolonging them as well. A question that some have is; what is the trade off?? If you are feeling OK, ( with high viral load & declining T cells, but never had any of the defining illnesses ) start taking the cocktail; and now feel sick all the time, is this improving the quality of life?
How much time on the meds untill you begin to feel as well as you did before they began to rampage through the body??
No one has the answer or we would not be here, but it is great to get on this and be made to think about things and verbalize it with people who ( hopefully ) have an idea of how I feel.
Thanks!!
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