What Kind Of Pills Are You Supposed To Take When You Have Hiv

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Pills, pills, pills...

Hello. I was diagnosed HIV positive in June of 2000 with CD4 at 553 and VL at 9000. Since then, my CD4 went to 351 and the VL went to 85 000. (Excuse my English...) My doctor put me on Sustiva and Combivir on December 20, saying that the side...

Response from Keith Henry, M.D.

University of Minnesota, School of Medicine

Many of the side effects you are experiencing do generally diminish after several months on therapy. For some, they don't and a change in medications might be in order. The nausea is often due to the AZT. A change to D4T for a while might... Read more »

what kind of pill is this?

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I urge your kind/prompt reply !!! PLZ Cant handle

Posted by radicalhonesty, 2 Replies

Dear adviser,

First of all, I do appreciate your kind check and reply to my below case as soon as you have some time:

I did HIV test for my girlfriend on 27 June 2010 (Rapid and Eliza) both are negative.
she broke up with her ex on April 2010, she... Read more »

Kind of dumb question about test names

Posted by Anonymous, 3 Replies

I know I should know this, but with the stress I've been feeling, and all the different test names - are some of them called by different names or short/long names? I mean, I've run across (at least as far as viral):
NAT
p24
PCR
RNA
DNA
bDNA

Then, there's... Read more »

First Numbers: Kind of weird

Posted by personpitch, 6 Replies

Hello,

I got my first numbers today, and they weren't quite what I expected. I was hoping I could go a few years without medication, but that doesn't seem to be the case.

vl:1000
cd4: 209

So, my VL is relatively low, but my cd4 is just hovering above... Read more »

children aren't supposed todie

Posted by Anonymous

CHILDREN AREN"T SUPPOSED TO DIE.

It's hard enough to here those words being spoken,imagine them
coming from a four old girl who was just diagnosed with aids. Now
imagine it's your child. My name is Jaden Starbuck and in June of
1998 I will give up... Read more »

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