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Did You Just Test HIV Positive?

Table of Contents Introduction Normal Feelings Get Help and Support It Is Better to Know HIV and Women Make a New Start Useful Info Sheets for Newly Diagnosed Introduction Getting an HIV diagnosis can feel like the worst news in the world. It iscommon to feel anger, fear, confusion, shock, grief, depression, or otherpainful emotions. Even after you have known for some time and think you arecoming to terms with the news, it...

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My buffalo hump won't disappear, my tests are normal?

I've had a buffalo hump for a couple of years now. My doctor suspected Cushing's syndrome, but all my hormone and blood tests are normal. I'm a couple of kilos overweight, but it's nothing extreme. How can I reduce/completely get...

Response from Keith Henry, M.D.

University of Minnesota, School of Medicine

Management of buffalo hump in the setting of treated HIV infection is challenging. Switching off offending medications, use of growth hormone or growth hormone releasing hormone (those are both injected and very expensive), and plastic surgery are... Read more »

Extended-Release Niacin May Reduce HAART-Related Dyslipidemia

Hi Dr. Henry:I just read about this and wondered if you had ever heard of this before and whether anyone had been using this before the study?Extended-Release Niacin May Reduce HAART-Related DyslipidemiaNEW YORK (Reuters Health) Aug 12 -...

Response from Keith Henry, M.D.

University of Minnesota, School of Medicine

Yes I am familiar with that study out of Washington U in St. Louis. The ACTG is conducting a larger dose ranging study on the effects and safety of that form of niacin which clearly has side effects including aggravating a tendency to diabetes but... Read more »

cd4 count tested over 1000 in my last test and has dropped by 100 in my recent test , is this normal

During my last test my CD4 count tested over 1000 and my recent test it has dropped to 900, is this normal. I am taking my meds regularly and I don't know whether this is normal or am I starting to form resistants to my meds. HELP!!!...

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

Stanford University, School of Medicine

You don't indicate what your HIV viral load results are. Assuming your viral load is undetectable, no worries. There is a natural variation in CD4 absolute count. That number is still within the normal range. I also bet your CD4% is stable,... Read more »

Can HIV positive people have normal lab tests?

If a person were to be HIV positive would it be possible to have normal physicals and normal labs such as complete blood count. Just curious since all my labs have always been normal....

Response from Bruce Dezube, M.D.

Harvard Medical School

It is absolutely possible for an HIV-positive person to have completely normal laboratory tests. In fact, most patients with early HIV disease do have normal blood tests. Obviously an HIV positive person would have a positive HIV test.... Read more »

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Same story ... just need to release

Posted by Anonymous, 6 Replies

Hello folks. Well, I've been around this post for a few weeks now, and they have been the most stressful weeks ever. For those of you who don't know, I had unprotected anal sex (I was the inserter) for about 20 seconds with a transvestite. I quickly... Read more »

Normal Blood Test - Would the virus show up?

Posted by Anonymous

I am worried that I may have contracted HIV and have yet to go to a clinic for a test. However, a few days ago I went for a blood test because I have been feeling tired for over a year now. My question is this. Could the virus show up on the blood... Read more »

releasing a twenty year anger over my infecter

Posted by Anonymous, 5 Replies

Hey i'm in theropy again and just finnally after almost twenty years mad as hell and need to vent . Back in 1985 I fell inlove with what I thought was the perfect person for me . I was living in houston and it was a geographical change to get away... Read more »

All normal

Posted by geop, 4 Replies

Hello

If you recall I WAS one of the 12 or so Worried Wells w/ ungoing symptoms after neg testing. Well, here is my story:
Neg Elisa 8 weeks, but ungoing symptoms of fatigue, malaise, dry skin, rashes and full ear. Neg Elisa at 14 weeks symptoms... Read more »

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