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How To Treat Constipation And Hiv

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constipation followed by diarrhea

A patient taking AZT+3TC+NEV complains of early satiety, indigestion and constipation for around 5 days then watery diarrhe for around 3 days. This repeats cyclically for the last six months. How to treat?...
Keith Henry, M.D.

Response from Keith Henry, M.D.

University of Minnesota, School of Medicine
Cycling from constipation to diarrhea is also seen in many people in the general populations (can be due to irritable or functional bowel syndrome, food intolerance such as milk or gluten products, a wide range of infections, side effects from drugs... Read more »

Atripla constipation?

I am a 43 year old male diagnosed HIV+ in 11/03. Ive been taking Sustiva & Truvada, now Atripla... Read more »

Bladder infection/constipation

10 year HIV+ male, 39, CD4 constant at 210-250 range, undetectable viral load, history of anal... Read more »
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Johns Hopkins AIDS Service

HIV Nephropathy: To Treat or Not to Treat?

HIV-associated nephropathy (HIVAN) represents a major complication of HIV infection. Its natural history has been well defined the development of nephrotic syndrome initially, then relentless progression to end-stage renal disease (ESRD) in most... Read more »
U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Congressional HIV/AIDS Caucus Signals Effort to Treat More HIV-Positives Globally

Fifty-nine US lawmakers on Thursday formally launched the Congressional HIV/AIDS Caucus, a bipartisan group pledging support for research and prevention both domestically and abroad. One of its goals is to support expanding the number of people... Read more »
Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation

AIDS 2010 Studies, Releases: Treating HIV-Positive Patients With ARVs Drove Down Number of New HIV Infections, Study Finds

"Treating HIV patients with cocktails of AIDS drugs helps to stop them spreading the infection further and more than halved the number of new HIV diagnoses in a study in Canada, scientists said on Sunday," Reuters reports. The study, which was... Read more »
Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation

IAS Conference: Low-Cost CD4 Tests; HIV Prevalence Among Pregnant Zimbabweans; Treating HIV-TB With ARVs; Vaccine Trials

The following are stories fromthis week's5th International AIDS Society (IAS) Conference on HIV Pathogenesis, Treatment and Prevention meeting in Cape Town, South Africa: SciDev.Net : Steven Reidof theImperial College London spoke of three... Read more »
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treating hiv holistic healthwise

Posted by taian, 2 Replies
anyone involved treating hiv with herbology,using colloidal silver regime or other w/good results Read more »

My doctor is refusing to treat my HIV until I sign

Posted by Garth, 2 Replies
Hello world,
As a newly diagnosed HIV gay man, living in Edmonton Alberta, ( diagnosed 1 year now) I am facing what I beleive to be discrimination and bullying by my doctor. My counts when first diagnosed were CD4 500 and viral load 16,000. Over... Read more »

treating HIV w/collodial silver anyone else?

Posted by taian
Anyone using colloidal silver contact me at--jackieluv69@yahoo.com Read more »

Treated as worthless

Posted by Lomitadaren
This is a prime example of how vulnerable we (PWA) People living with Aids are, and how even when there is Gross Medical Malpractice by a supporting medical provider, we are treated as unimportant, irrelevant, and bothersome.
Millions of dollars a... Read more »

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