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hiv+ not full blown AIDS
#696 - 03/30/00 03:54 PM
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HIV+ not full blown AIDS!!!
I have been HIV+ for about 8 or 9 years now , and Iv'e had my
share of OI's all that are kept under control with good health as
well as my 22pill-a-Day regime. But my ouestion is ....what is
full blown Aids??? I'am currentry on SSDI for HIV+ related health
& cronic fatigue problems.
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What is Full blown AIDS???
as far as I know, if you have less than 200T-cell, and a high
VL-load, and suffer from Cronic fatigue along with other HIV+
related health probelms, then you are considered as having full
blown AIDS.......if this is correct, please respond to this
Post!!!
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Full blown AIDS
Being diagnosed with AIDS instead of HIV is really a legal
definition and has been used to entitle people for social
security disability. The current definition is to have one
opportunisitic infection OR t-cells under 200. There is a list of
what is considered an opportunistic infection--PCP, for example,
is an OI. So even if you have 400 t-cells and you get PCP then
you are considered to have AIDS--the words full blown are kind of
meaningless. And it could be meaningless in terms of disease
progression nowadays. Let's say you do not know you are infected
and you come down with PCP--you are considered to have AIDS. Once
you start medication your viral load may go down to undetectable
and you function totally normally--but you are still considered
to have AIDS. So it's kind of arbitary now.
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