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HIV+ and Sex

Since I have am HIV+,and waiting on my blood test to come back is my sex life over with either vaginal/anal intercourse or can I use pretection and still have some sex?
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Thanks, you are a great help and a wonderful person to turn to when I have a problem. So now I will continue taking the medication, do some exercise and hope to be able to live a very long time. Thanks again for all your help. Joe
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You've had it several years to have that low of a CD4.
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My doctor started me on Atripla so far my body hasn't had any problems  with it, I take it at night prior to bed time. So far no problem sleeping,but I have a nagging couch comes and goes. do you think the virus could be causing it. Hardly any Diarrhea anymore. But, Like I stated in my earlier email, my CD-T-cell were 246, I know thats below 300 and my Viral Load was 22,000. Based on these two reading do you think I have been HIV+ very long? My doctors seems to think I have had this virus in my system for approx. 10 years but I don't think so. What to you think? I do appreciate all of your help so far, I take it one day at a time, work/exercise and don't think about the HIV+. Just wish I could get my wife to get tested, She refuses, I know she is okay. Thanks Again for all your help.
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No.
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From your experience do you think she knows what she is doing. Please I hope she does for my life is in her hands.
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Find a new doctor that knows what they are doing.
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Thanks so much, She did give me a Pneumonia Shot, Hepatitis A Shot, She said I was immune to Hepatitis B since I had already taken it in the past, I will have a chest xray friday to see how my lungs are and a TB Time Test next month. I am new at this I just hope she is doing the right thing, she mention that she was going to start me out on Atripla which is only 1 pill, how do you feel about the medication the doctor is going to prescibe for me. I to can't understand why she didn't start me off immediately on the medication.
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Checking to see what medication you can take? Unless she is doing a geno test she could and should have prescribed the meds to you on the spot. Your CD4 are not far from AIDS classification.
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Please can you explain what you mean,, My doctor is checking to see what type of medication that she will be giving me, My health she says is great and I feel fine right now. Now you have sorta sacred me, please explain what you mean. Thanks
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better change doctors then
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I just got back from the doctor, the doctor said my current Viral Load is 22,000 and CD-4 count is 246, what I want to know is that good, still not given any medication.
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186166 tn?1385259382
http://www.medhelp.org/forums/HIV--Living-With/show/97?camp=msc

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