Abnormal Lab Values For HIV/AIDS

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Lactic Acidosis and HIV/AIDS

Table of Contents Understanding Lactic Acidosis What Causes Lactic Acidosis? Symptoms of Lactic Acidosis Treatment Risk Factors Taking Care of Yourself Understanding Lactic Acidosis Mitochondria are small organs in your cells. They help convert the food youeat into the energy you need to function. If the mitochondria aren't working properly, cells must make energy in adifferent way. When this happens, a chemical called...

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Fatigue and lab values..

Hey doc!!I've been reading your repsonses for a while. You have a great bedside manner and seem to get the point across without the boring retoric. Having said that, I have a question.I have been + since 1983. I am a 45 yo male. Started haart...

Response from Robert J. Frascino, M.D.

The Robert James Frascino AIDS Foundation

Hello "Me"!Are you being a crybaby? Absolutely not. Fatigue is one of the most common things we HIVers have to cope with and tracking down the cause or causes can be challenging. Often, busy physicians just point us toward the nearest... Read more »

PEP for 2 weeks with Slight Lab Abnormalities--Stop or Decrease Dose?

HiI had receptive unprotected anal sex with someone of unknown status. My doctor started me on PEP program 24hrs later with Epivir, Retrovir, and Kaletra. I had lots of fatigue and side effects so Kaletra was decreased to one tab twice a day from...

Response from Keith Henry, M.D.

University of Minnesota, School of Medicine

Those labs alone would not sway me to make a recommendation to stop PEP. That decision would be based on the details of the exposure and the magnitude of your side effect symptoms. The effectiveness of 2 weeks of PEP has not been well... Read more »

Abnormal labs and meds - correlation?

Hello,I have been on Viramune, Epivir and Zerit since 2/2000. My vl has been <50 since 4/2000, latest labs on 8/23/04 vl <50 cd4 373 (down from 515 8/03). My question has to do with the chem 20 rather than the cnts. My lytes are Na - 129...

Response from Keith Henry, M.D.

University of Minnesota, School of Medicine

High MCV levels are common in patients on AZT or D4T. The low sodium (hyponatremia) merits attention. If is develops slowly and corrects slowly there usually is not much of a problem clinically. High lipids, high glucose, other drug effects (such... Read more »

Lab values

Can you please tell First what lab work do you look at for my Hiv and what are the Normal values. and how often I need to do them Thank you...

Response from Mark Holodniy, M.D., F.A.C.P., C.I.C.

Stanford University, School of Medicine

When people are diagnosed with HIV infection, a number of lab tests are ordered including, t cell subsets, HIV viral load, blood cell counts, liver and kidney function tests, and hepatitis virus testing.... Read more »

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Ex-Lab Worker Questions HIV Test Results

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Ex-Lab Worker Questions HIV Test Results

By FOSTER KLUG, Associated Press writer

BALTIMORE - Thousands of patients could have received questionable HIV (news - web sites) test results not just hundreds, as hospital officials have suggested,... Read more »

lab time question

Posted by Anonymous, 1 Reply

I just had a buch of blood work done for insurance...one of the tests was for HIV. Does anyone know how long the labwork should take? it's been a week and I haven't heard anything, they only call if something is abnormal. Just wondering if a week... Read more »

lab questions

Posted by Anonymous, 1 Reply

on the test results for hiv does anyone know what the t-4 free is and the range being in between .8-1.8 ng/dl mean...and tsh .40- 5.50 mIU/L .....if my test at 4 weeks was 1.3 and 3.54 do u think im going to still be negative at 12 weeks just asking Read more »

To geop and others re: quest labs

Posted by notanonymous, 2 Replies

i did a search on the safe sex forum and found this post. maybe they still offer 1st generation too, i don't know. it might depend on who orders it and what is ordered. i am concerned too, i was told by the third party i ordered the test from it was... Read more »

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