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Plz Dont Laugh At My Dumb Question Posted: 12-14-05 04:19am
Haha... Okay so I was hospitalized
forever and they did an mri and found some
abnormal brain activities and they still
dont kno what it is.. Anyways in the
mri... My dr said they showed signs of
hiv but the results came out negative...
But now im extra scared because they did
not do an aids test... And teh guy I was
in love wit turned out 2 b a dirty jerk...
Haha anyways... When I was younger.. I
heard someone talking about if your spit
is bubbley and all drippy then thats a
sign of it... Soo thats my question...
Is it a sign of hiv or aids if your spit
is all nasty like that?? And what other
signs can I look 4?? Thanks
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cd998776
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Posted: 12-14-05 16:35pm
I don't think so.
(btw, aids and hiv are completely
different; you don't have to have hiv to
have aids.)
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jenn_smithson
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Re: Plz Dont Laugh At My Dumb Question Posted: 12-14-05 17:14pm
xxxpliict
wrote:
haha... Okay so I was
hospitalized forever and they did an mri
and found some abnormal brain activities
and they still dont kno what it is..
Anyways in the mri... My dr said they
showed signs of hiv but the results came
out negative... But now im extra scared
because they did not do an aids test...
And teh guy I was in love wit turned out 2
b a dirty jerk... Haha anyways... When
I was younger.. I heard someone talking
about if your spit is bubbley and all
drippy then thats a sign of it... Soo
thats my question... Is it a sign of hiv
or aids if your spit is all nasty like
that?? And what other signs can I look
4?? Thanks
no, the consistency of
your spit is not a sign.
There is very little that is a sign of
hiv. Some people experience some flu or
cold like symptoms (temperature, chills,
scratchy throat, etc) as their body fights
the virus at first but not everyone
experiences the same thing. A blood or
an oral swab hiv test can tell you if you
are infected or not. Unless you get
tested, you may not know you have it for
quite some time.
Aids is a medical term which describes a
variety of illnesses in which your t-cell
(the cells in your immune system that
fight off infections and diseases) count
falls below (i believe but would have to
check) 200. Before you are diagnosed
with aids, you are hiv+. Hiv is a virus
that invades t-cells, replicates, and then
breaks down the t-cells one by one. This
breaks down the hiv+ peron's immune system
slowly and many people don't know that
they are hiv+ until a strange disease or
illness is diagnosed. It can take many
years to discover that you are hiv+.
Everyone should be tested regularly for
hiv because the sooner it is discovered,
the sooner the person can go on
medications to help manage their illness
and live longer.
The world health organization listed the
following stages of hiv to aids:
stage i: hiv disease is asymptomatic and
not categorized as aids
stage ii: include minor mucocutaneous
manifestations and recurrent upper
respiratory tract infections
stage iii: includes unexplained chronic
diarrhea for longer than a month, severe
bacterial infections and pulmonary
tuberculosis or
stage iv: includes toxoplasmosis of the
brain, candidiasis of the esophagus,
trachea, bronchi or lungs and kaposi's
sarcoma; these diseases are used as
indicators of aids.
Pneumocystis jiroveci pneumonia,
tuberculosis, esophagitis, unexplained
chronic diarrhea, toxoplasmosis,
progressive multifocal
leukoencephalopathy, and kaposi's sarcoma
(a rare form of cancer) are all used to
diagnose someone with aids as is a t-cell
count of less than 200. Once someone is
diagnosed with aids, it stays with them
even if they become healthy again and
their t-cell count goes above 200. this does not
mean that that person is going to die or
that further treatment is not going to
help. It's just a label for
doctor's to be able to adequately treat
patients.
Most people with all of the medication
available today are able to live much,
much longer than ever before and get sick
a lot less. With hiv and aids, your
lifestyle is the most important predictor
of whether or not you will live a long
life. If you drink, do drugs (such as,
but not limited to, cocain, heroin, and
speed), don't get enough rest, don't eat
nutritiously, and don't exersize, your
body is going to succumb to the infection
faster than someone who takes care of
themself. Take care of yourself and
you'll live.
Everyone should get tested regularly even
if you're in a serious, monogamous
relationship because everyone is at risk
for contracting hiv (and other diseases)
even if they do not have sex with other
people. Get tested, follow your doctor's
advice, be safe, and take care of
yourself.
Peace,
jenn
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cd998776
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Re: Plz Dont Laugh At My Dumb Question Posted: 12-14-05 17:20pm
Below 200 per mm3 is correct.
jenn_smithson
wrote:
before you are diagnosed
with aids, you are hiv+.
if you mean aids that occurs as a result
of hiv then yes, but otherwise, like I
said before, you don't have to have hiv to
be labeled an aids patient.
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lesliepei
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Posted: 01-18-06 14:35pm
Just out of curiosity, what type of aids
is not caused by hiv other than
psychosomatic immune deficiency?
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Finess150
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Whoa Whoa Whoa Posted: 01-19-06 21:50pm
Hold on there, let me just state this
simply -
1 only hiv leads to aids, nothing else
2 you will not get aids if you do not have
hiv - any other immunodeficiency problem
cannot be called aids
3 aids is a state of being, brought on by
the lack of an immune system, which in
turn has been brought on by hiv (a virus)
i hope this is clear.
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Finess150
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Plus Posted: 01-20-06 05:39am
And as a further point, aids stands for
aquired immune deficiency syndrome.
Aqcuired. Meaning the body not cause the
immune deficiency itself. It is a
specific type of illness, not a 'label'
that doctors use for any patient with an
immune defiecieny - aids is only for the
ones who are hiv+ with sub-200 t-cell
count. This is fact, i'm afraid. Just
look it up.
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cd998776
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Re: Whoa Whoa Whoa Posted: 01-22-06 13:36pm
finess150
wrote:
hold on there, let me just
state this simply -
1 only hiv leads to aids, nothing else
2 you will not get aids if you do not have
hiv - any other immunodeficiency problem
cannot be called aids
3 aids is a state of being, brought on by
the lack of an immune system, which in
turn has been brought on by hiv (a virus)
aids can be led to by other immune
deficiency problems, although it is less
common. Get your story straight. Aids
stands for: acquired immune deficiency
syndrome, nothing about hiv there...
People just associate it as being the same
thing, because they don't hear about
people getting it other ways other than
hiv.
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Finess150
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Well... Posted: 01-23-06 06:56am
From wikipedia -
acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, or
acquired immune deficiency syndrome (or
acronym aids or aids), is a collection of
symptoms and infections resulting from the
specific damage to the immune system
caused by infection with the human
immunodeficiency virus (hiv).[1] aids is a
condition that results from the latter
stages of advanced hiv infection in
humans, thereby leaving compromised
indivduals prone to opportunistic
infections and tumors. Although
treatments for both aids and hiv exist to
slow the virus' progression in a human
patient, there is no known cure.
From medical journal -
aids is an infectious disease caused by
human immunodeficiency virus (hiv-1,
hiv-2), a retrovirus that causes immune
system failure and debilitation. Hiv is
spread through direct contact with the
bodily fluids of an infected person.
Before you reply, check it out on the web
yourself.
