Drinking After Someone Worried I Have AIDS

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What Are the Symptoms of HIV and AIDS?

When it comes to the symptoms of HIV/AIDS, there are three major points to keep in mind: There's a big difference between the symptoms of HIV and the symptoms of advanced HIV, also known as AIDS. It's what you do that puts you at risk for HIV -- not how you feel. Your mind is a powerful thing. 1.There's a big difference between the symptoms of HIV and the symptoms of advanced HIV, also known as AIDS. HIV is a virus that attacks...

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My boyfriend had Aids, Im very worried.

Im 16, my boyfriend was diagnosed with Aids when he was 15 last year, about 8 or 9 months ago. He was 16 in February.When he was diagnosed last year they said his count was just below 200, hes been takeing medication since then.About a month ago he...

Response from Keith Henry, M.D.

University of Minnesota, School of Medicine

Your boyfriend has gotten off to a rough/unlucky start. He needs to work carefully with the HIV clinic staff to try and find an HIV regimen that he can tolerate--starting and stopping meds is a frustrating and sometimes risky situation depending on... Read more »

HPV worries (HUMAN PAPILLOMA VIRUS AND HIV/AIDS, 2011)

I'm 44 year old gay male who has been on HAART (Atripla) for the past 3 years with great success and no side effects. Have been undetectable the whole time and my CD4% has gone from 10.5 to 31%, all other levels are great and continue to...

Response from Robert J. Frascino, M.D.

The Robert James Frascino AIDS Foundation

Hi, Andrew.Unfortunately we don't have a cure (yet) for HPV. We do have a preventative vaccine that I recommend for those not infected. For those already infected, close follow-up, especially for those with the high-risk subtypes, and prompt... Read more »

Worrying about HIV/AIDS

Dear Ryan,having read through most of the questions and answers on this Forum I would like to add my own experience and thoughts and recommendations to people who worry about contracting this desease.Sometime ago I was on a business trip in Africa...

Response from Ryan M. Kull, C.S.W

Columbia University's Health & Related Services

Thank you for your insight. I think it is always helpful to have perspectives from different angles around the issues of anixety about being or getting HIV infected. RMK(Just one note: it is not necessarily true that people are forced into seeing... Read more »

I am the "very worried..maybe too worried" guy...Please ignore my last question because...

I just got back my test results and I was negative for all types of STDs...including the HIV test (I know it was done way too early but it doesn't hurt I guess)... I know that is good news(I know you said I was very low risk anyway but does...

Response from Robert J. Frascino, M.D.

The Robert James Frascino AIDS Foundation

Hi,From the information provided I would agree with your doctor: antibiotics are not warranted. Regarding STD screening, it depends on which STD you are screening for and also what type of testing assay is used. At this point you appear to be... Read more »

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Posted by Anonymous, 3 Replies

What would be the chances of contracting the HIV virus from drinking a bottle of wine in South Africa after the local waiter cut his hand on the corkscrew while opening the bottle? Would alcohol have killed the virus anyway? This may sound like a... Read more »

This might be of some help to the worried wells

Posted by Anonymous

Ok check this out everyone!

You CANNOT get HIV/AIDS from doing the following:
hugging, kissing (unless they have a significant amount of blood in their mouth and you have large, fresh open wounds in yours), masterbating, recieving oral sex (unless... Read more »

Long-term HIV and Aids survivors' health worrying

Posted by ScotCharles

From KaiserNet

January 8, 2008

Some experts and doctors recently have voiced concerns that people who were diagnosed with HIV and Aids in the early years of the epidemic are experiencing "premature[e]" or "disproportionate numbers" of ailments... Read more »

worried...today.

Posted by Anonymous

Hi everyone.
Thanks for stopping by and reading.
I am so scared and concern about been hiv+ that I have not sleep in days.
I have a bf, which things were not perfect, or misunderstood. I started to see another person in the same situation than me, we... Read more »

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