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The silver lining is that they are lucky to have contracted HIV rather than some of the nastier stuff. There are plenty of worse reality checks.

by mkl95 2y ago

Hamuko 2y ago
How manageable is HIV these days?
- est31 2y ago
  If you have access to HIV drugs, it's pretty manageable. You will always be immunocompromised however, your mucosal T-cells will never be the same, but in the great picture, life expectancy with medicated HIV is as good as life expectancy without HIV. Having to take daily pills until you die is still a pretty nasty thing however :), there is no cure. I would definitely group HIV with the "nastier stuff".
- TrackerFF 2y ago
  Very manageable. Even in larger cities it is quite rare to see patients with full-blown AIDS - and the few times that happens, it comes down to: - Severe drug addiction and (often combined with) mental illness that results in the patient not being able to follow the drug regiment. This is the main reason. - Religious reasons, homeopathy, etc. The patient believes they can prey the illness away, use alternative medicine, or similar. - Extreme denial. The patient simply doesn't believe they have HIV, and thus refuse to take medication. Most places in the western world HIV medication is free, for obvious reasons.
- serf 2y ago
  I hate the term manageable because it implies a lot of stuff that people take for granted. I have a manageable disease (not HIV), and one of my biggest (albeit fantasy) gripes is that for better or worse I cannot choose to opt out of society. I can't live on a desert island. I'll die if i'm ever a castaway regardless of how well packed the island is with coconut trees. More realistically it means that I can't be away from 'shipping range' for any more than a week or two before supplies dwindle and I meander back to society, having hit the extents of my leash. This sucks as a sailor. It's actually not manageable with the hobby of sailing long distances, forcing all sorts of compromises that turn the hobby into something different. So, when someone describes something as manageable, well, it's generic and leaves out so much context as to be worthwhile for only a small feel-good sound-bite. Maybe that person finds it manageable; it's not advice to be applied globally.

The silver lining is that they are lucky to have contracted HIV rather than some of the nastier stuff. There are plenty of worse reality checks.

by mkl95 2y ago

The silver lining is that they are lucky to have contracted HIV rather than some of the nastier stuff. There are plenty of worse reality checks.

Hamuko 2y ago

How manageable is HIV these days?

est31 2y ago
If you have access to HIV drugs, it's pretty manageable. You will always be immunocompromised however, your mucosal T-cells will never be the same, but in the great picture, life expectancy with medicated HIV is as good as life expectancy without HIV. Having to take daily pills until you die is still a pretty nasty thing however :), there is no cure. I would definitely group HIV with the "nastier stuff".
TrackerFF 2y ago
Very manageable. Even in larger cities it is quite rare to see patients with full-blown AIDS - and the few times that happens, it comes down to: - Severe drug addiction and (often combined with) mental illness that results in the patient not being able to follow the drug regiment. This is the main reason. - Religious reasons, homeopathy, etc. The patient believes they can prey the illness away, use alternative medicine, or similar. - Extreme denial. The patient simply doesn't believe they have HIV, and thus refuse to take medication. Most places in the western world HIV medication is free, for obvious reasons.
serf 2y ago
I hate the term manageable because it implies a lot of stuff that people take for granted. I have a manageable disease (not HIV), and one of my biggest (albeit fantasy) gripes is that for better or worse I cannot choose to opt out of society. I can't live on a desert island. I'll die if i'm ever a castaway regardless of how well packed the island is with coconut trees. More realistically it means that I can't be away from 'shipping range' for any more than a week or two before supplies dwindle and I meander back to society, having hit the extents of my leash. This sucks as a sailor. It's actually not manageable with the hobby of sailing long distances, forcing all sorts of compromises that turn the hobby into something different. So, when someone describes something as manageable, well, it's generic and leaves out so much context as to be worthwhile for only a small feel-good sound-bite. Maybe that person finds it manageable; it's not advice to be applied globally.