Day 79: My HIV Viral Load (Video)

August 25, 2011

By Aaron Laxton
From TheBody

Posted: April 2013

This video blog is part of the series "My HIV Journey: Videos of My First Months on HIV Meds, and Where I Am Now." Check out a full list of entries in the series.

As most of you know, I am enrolled in a drug trial measuring Atripla against the "Quad" ... I've been on the Atripla for going on eight weeks. Yesterday the doctor's office called me to give me my lab results ... My viral load has dropped half a million cells. ... That's pretty astounding!

I talk about some other things I do to keep a positive rather than a negative attitude.

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