Kidney Disease And Neuropathy

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HIV and Kidney Disease

Why Should People With HIV Care About Kidney Disease? HIV disease can cause kidney failure due to HIV infection of kidney cells. This is known as HIV-Associated Nephropathy or HIVAN. Other causes of kidney disease include diabetes and high blood pressure. These problems, especially HIVAN, are much more common in African-Americans. Taking some medications used to treat HIV infections or related health issues can also cause kidney disease. Kidney...

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Kidney Disease and HIV Medicatons

Dear Doctor,I will try and make this short. I was infected in 1991. It is sad how one mistake can change a persons life forever. I developed AIDS in 1994 and had to go on disability. I have had both hips replaced caused by AVN, pneumonia,...

Response from Joseph McGowan, M.D., F.A.C.P.

North Shore University Hospital

Thank you for your post. You have truly been a fighter, and I can see you still want to fight this disease! That is good.Kidney disease with HIV can be related to several factors:1) People with low CD4 counts (especially below 200) are at... Read more »

Neuropathy

Dear Doctors, I am suffering from neuropathy, this has been going on for sometime now, but yet I have no reliefe. I have been Postive since Mar of 1983 and have been on AZT since about 1984, in the meantime I have done all the "D" drugs,...

Response from Brian Boyle, M.D., J.D.

Cornell University, Weill Medical College

You must have gotten some of your dates wrong (did you mean 1993 and 1994?), but to respond to your question:Neuropathy is a difficult problem to treat. It can result from HIV, drugs, infections, vitamin deficiencies and other causes. It can also be... Read more »

Is this peripheral neuropathy?

I've been HIV+ for 15+ years and have been on a combination of Atazanavir, Combivir and Ritonavir for about 1 year now. This combo is working prety well - viral load goes from <50 to ~300, T4 from ~470 -550. All other blood tests (liver...

Response from Keith Henry, M.D.

University of Minnesota, School of Medicine

Sensations as you describe in your feet could be due to peripheral neuropathy. A good neurologic and vascular examination and history (including review of other use of other possibly contributing drugs or disease conditions such a diabetse) may... Read more »

Can Kidney Disease be reversed?

I saw an article on reversing kidney disease and was wondering if there are HIV drugs that have been seen to do that....

Response from Keith Henry, M.D.

University of Minnesota, School of Medicine

Kidney disease due to HIV is generally termed HIV nephropathy. HIV nephropathy can be helped (stabilized and in some cases reversed) by effective treatment with antiretrovirals. Many other conditions can contribute to kidney disease most often... Read more »

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NEUROPATHY

Posted by Anonymous, 5 Replies

JUST HAD A QUESTION. IS THIS SOMETHING U GET IN EARLY HIV INFECTION? I'VE FELT THIS PINS AND NEEDLES SENSATION ON BOTH ARMS AND BURNING FEET AND NOW IM SCARED I HAVE HIV. MY EXPOSURE WAS A FEW MONTHS AGO (VAGINAL) IM STRESSING OUT SO MUCH AND I... Read more »

neuropathy

Posted by Anonymous, 1 Reply

Peripheral neuropathy is a tingling sensation, pins and needles, that is very, very often quite painful. According
to Dr. Judith Feinberg, it affects the longest nerves first, therefore it always starts in the toes, may progress
upwards to involve the... Read more »

Peripheral Neuropathy

Posted by Anonymous, 1 Reply

dear jackie blue,
my doctor says that i have Peripheral Neuropathy,but my elizer test is still neg at 8-9months.
should i need to keep testing until one year....
as im very stressed out.i recently took dna pcr to try to end all of this... Read more »

neuropathy

Posted by Anonymous, 1 Reply

I'm curious as to how many people have had neuropathic symptoms very early on in the disease and how it manifested ...Also night sweats ??Is that pretty common early on in the disease??

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