Initiating Drug Therapy Mentally Challenged Hiv Patients

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IRIS: A Concern for People Starting HIV Therapy

Introduction What Is Inflammation? What Is IRIS? How Is It Diagnosed? Who Is at Risk? What Are the Symptoms? How Do You Treat IRIS? What Can Help to Ask My Doctor? Special Concerns for People Living With HIV Special Concerns for Women, Children and People Over 50 What Does the Research Show? Commentary Introduction It's a mouthful of a phrase, but immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome (IRIS) is a serious...

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Long term effects of drug therapy on mental health

I've been on aggressive drug regimens for 13 years and have 0 viral load, about 400+ T-cells and no OIs. But over the last 2 years, particularly after a harrowing experience with Sustiva last year, I've been feeling more nervous and...

Response from Michael Shernoff, M.S.W.

Psychotherapist and Author

I honestly do not know the answer to your question as to why these drugs are too toxic to possibly be taken indefinitely. Many anti-HIV drugs are neurotoxic, which means that they have the potential to damage cells in our body's neurological... Read more »

initial therapy

i was just diagnosed positive within the last week. I believe I'm handling it well, but I think that's in part due to the fact I'm focusing on inconsequentials (see previous posting)... frankly, I'm very scared..I don't know...

Response from David Wohl, M.D.

University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill

You need to see an HIV specialist. In NYC you can't throw a rock without hitting one. The HIV clinics at NYU, Beth Israel, Cornell (Weill Medical College), Sloan Kettering, to name a few are well known and have experts in this area. If you... Read more »

initial therapy

Response from Keith Henry, M.D.

University of Minnesota, School of Medicine

I can only answer a few of your good questions. If you truly have a normal CD4 count and an undetectable HIV RNA (viral load) I would question the diagnosis of recent HIV infection. Immediate treatment of recent infection is of uncertain benefit.... Read more »

Mental effects of HIV therapy drugs

My lover (+) and I (-) have been together 2.5 years. We met and he told me about 2 months after. We did not have sex until after he told me. After being together about 1 year, he became ill. I found a doctor and he is now doing great physically. For...

Response from Robert H. Remien, Ph.D.

Columbia University

It is very hard to judge what is going on with your lover without a lot more information and without talking with him directly. However, I can say that it is very rare for depression to be a direct side effect of HIV treatment. People living with... Read more »

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Posted by losing_it, 1 Reply

Saw this on cnn today.....

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others using drug therapy in pregnancy

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I'm 15 wks. pregnant and have been on abacavir,viracept and 3tc. I'm concerned about first trimester exposure and also about abacavir because it's been used so little in pregnancy. I'd like to connect with other women who have delivered or are... Read more »

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