Hiv Illness And Physical Appearance

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HIV and Aging

...HIV-positive people are reaching older age, and more middle-age HIV-positive people are experiencing diseases of aging, many of the medical problems facing HIV-positive people have more to do with diseases of aging than HIV-related illnesses. Starting HIV treatment before your CD4 cell count falls to 350 cuts the risk of HIV-related and non-HIV-related illnesses. Recent US treatment guidelines recommend that people start HIV treatment even...

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Worried Sick! Please Help!!! I'll donate!!

Dear Dr. Bob,I am writing you again because I would really like my questions answered. I'm so paranoid right now. I can barely eat. Six days ago, I engaged in sexual intercourse with my HIV+ partner for the first time. I used a condom, and there...

Response from Robert J. Frascino, M.D.

The Robert James Frascino AIDS Foundation

...Hello,Your HIV-acquisition risk is essentially nonexistent, assuming the latex condom was used properly and didn't fail (break).Your "symptoms" Read more »

After Hip Replacement surgery and feeling ill.

Question to The Body of evening of Saturday, April 10, 2010, 9:52pm.I had hip replacement surgery on March 3 2010. I am HIV positive and have had an AIDS diagnosis since October of 1994. I have been infected since approximately 1982. It is now 5 1/2...

Response from Keith Henry, M.D.

University of Minnesota, School of Medicine

...and addressing any other conditions (diabetes, cardiac) can all be important for recovery besides maintaining good control of HIV infection. KH Read more »

HIV fear and serious psychosomatic illness

Dear Dr Bob,I would appreciate if you posted this for the benefit of all the seriously worried among us. I was unlucky to fall ill exactly three weeks after a risky incident with a girl in Eastern Africa. From then on I experienced a variety of...

Response from Robert J. Frascino, M.D.

The Robert James Frascino AIDS Foundation

...your thanks and for taking the time to write in and share your story. I frequently discuss the possibility of psychosomatic illness, but most worried wells reject the concept without serious consideration. Hopefully your testimonial will... Read more »

PHYSICAL APPEARENCE CHANGE

I'm a newbe,and I'm worried about physical changes in my appearence,I am scared that my stomache will bloat,my shoulder blades will pretrude,and my muscle will deteriate.Im on comb/sustiva,and wonder if there is any combo's studied that will not let...

Response from Benjamin Young, M.D., Ph.D.

Rocky Mountain CARES

...understand what the causes of these body shape changes are. It is clear from several studies that long-standing, or severe HIV disease places one at risk of development. This would suggest that delaying the start of therapy actually increases... Read more »

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U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

South Africa: Returning Sick -- HIV, Illness, Death and Migration

... While migration in South Africa is commonly thought of as rural to urban, the number of ill or seriously ill HIV/AIDS patients who return home to the rural Eastern Cape from Cape Town indicates the traffic goes both ways. Patricia Fekema, Read more »

Lipodystrophy Syndrome and Self-Assessment of Well-Being and Physical Appearance in HIV-Positive Patients

...condition and the amount of disturbance of well-being by HIV infection. Participants with LDS felt recognizable as HIV-positive by physical appearance in 30.1 percent of cases, compared to 18.3 percent in patients without LDS. This difference... Read more »

How to Spot HIV/AIDS Fraud

...proven to be safe and effective for those purposes. Regular medicine does not have a cure for HIV. Because it is a serious illness, many people with HIV disease are willing to try almost anything to get healthy. Some unproven treatments may be... Read more »

Alternative and Complementary Therapies

...Why Aren't There More Studies of Alternative Therapies? Alternative therapies aren't always designed to treat a particular illness: Some alternative therapies treat the whole person, not an illness. They might restore harmony, balance, or... Read more »

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Think I might have hiv or other illness

Posted by VAmberwaves7, 2 Replies

...and he is the only one I have been with without a condom he said he has been with girls without really been tested for stds or hiv. I have always been tested for hiv and stds of last year and I was clean But Recently I have been having constant... Read more »

PARTNER IS NOW ILL - SO FRIGHTENED

Posted by Sprite1, 3 Replies

...TOO. Yeah, she has allergies. No, the rash hasn't concerned her as she thinks it's allergies. All I can think? I've given her HIV. We have not had any kind of sex since my infidelity. She does not know I cheated on her. We have only kissed -... Read more »

antibodies after seroconversion illness

Posted by Anonymous, 2 Replies

...fever. Actually, i'm one of them. I wondered about the following thing: In most HIV literature you read that the seroconverting illness happens somewhere between 2 and 6 weeks after infection. Is it correct to assume that for the ones who... Read more »

could short illness be a symptom of HIV

Posted by Anonymous

...be almost gone or hardly noticeable.......could this be because your immune system is always on guard due to hiv that other illnesses are handled quickly by your system, i don't know it has been a long yr. and at this point i am really searching... Read more »

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