Hiv Combo That Will Not Affect Liver

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Off Meds, Disagree with new combo not adhereing, liver enzymes up

Pos since 84-85 always adhere to meds, AZT(myopathy tendinitis),DDI some neuropathy, Saquinavire combo fail, crix,zerit,epivir=0viral and tcells 5 to 6 average=lipoin face and sever acic reflux from crix. First resistance test resistance to...

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

Stanford University, School of Medicine

Wow, a lot of action going on here. Stress certainly could be affecting CD4 counts. I would need to have a little more information about your resistance test results. A viramune or sustiva, plus viread and emtriva combination could work. However,... Read more »

HIV+ and Hep 'C' and best drug combo

Hello, When I was 33, in 1995, I had a routine hepatitis screening completed and it came back negative for Hep'A' and Hep'B' but I was postive for Hep 'C'. I soon underwent a liver biopsy (not fun) and had very minor...

Response from Gerald Pierone, M.D.

AIDS Research and Treatment Center of the Treasure Coast

It is not unreasonable to switch from Sustiva to Viramune under some circumstances. Sustiva can produce a chronic sleep disturbance and switching it out may help this problem. The challenge is that sleep disturbance is extremely common (as... Read more »

HIV+ and Hep 'C' and best drug combo

Response from Douglas T. Dieterich, M.D.

New York University, School of Medicine

That all sounds perfectly rational as do you. It is a long question, but well written. Your HIV combo sounds correct so it should be OK. If you don't have any problems in the first 6 weeks with Viramune you should not have any issues at all.... Read more »

Hiv affected liver? so bad?

i have a cousin got infected hiv,in indonesia, jakarta. docs said he had opp.infections in liver, and worse already.and the cd4 tested is 33 or 4%. how come the docs can not heal him? they juz said all we can do is juz pray and wait. we do realized...

Response from David Wohl, M.D.

University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill

I am unsure how we can help. Your cousin needs medical assistance. He may require medication to treat his liver infection and certainly needs HIV medicines. I do not know how available HIV therapies are in Indonesia or if they are available for... Read more »

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dear gmanbil Can HIV affect the liver?

Posted by Anonymous, 2 Replies

dear gman,hiv itself affect the liver,while NOT on meds?,
my liver enzymes are always raised.my recent DNA PCR WAS NEG,for HIV.

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Can HIV affect the liver?

Posted by Anonymous

question.can hiv affect the liver,even when a person is not on meds.?my liver enzymes are always high.my liver always hurts and is sore.

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does hiv affect your liver

Posted by uhohblita, 1 Reply

my ALT is up to 160 and the other one SPT i think is 51 which are both high. i have been having pain in that area for months but the docs wouldnt listen. does hiv affect my liver? i am really trying to get over my hiv OCD but my bodys going... Read more »

40 hiv duo, 84 EIA, 97 combo test neg.

Posted by longlife, 1 Reply

40 days later, the duo screw hiv ab / ag neg.
84 days after HIV 1/2 EIA neg.
97 days later, the combo HIV 1/2 neg.

Do I need another test?
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