Uncommon Or Complicated Health Issues You Or Close Ones Have Experienced.

[wood]

Just as the topic states.  I'm trying to get beyond the normal, "oh you have chlamydia, and gonorrhea" stuff to see what other people have experienced.  

 

I will start.  I have a friend who had to have some precancerous cells lasered off in in ass.  He found it out about 6 months after he tested HIV+ at 27.  The doctor says it could have been the HIV, or just normal sex that brought it on.  Hence why I now get routine anal pap smears.

 

What else you guys got.     

[bearbandit]

guess this only partly fits in here... Been on ARVs for 25 years - I fell out of the side effect tree and am still hitting branches on the way down. Strangely, even though the ARVs have had a couple of goes at killing me, throughout it all, since I took my first protease inhibitor I've had numbers ranging from the merely good to the excellent. The one exception was when my partner died: I didn't feel able to maintain proper adherence so I took a drug holiday and discovered that without the ARVs I was losing 70CD4 cells a month. Last little surprise was confirmation of osteopenia (result of tenofovir).

[NastyRigPig]

  On 10/1/2014 at 4:50 AM, wood said:

Just as the topic states.  I'm trying to get beyond the normal, "oh you have chlamydia, and gonorrhea" stuff to see what other people have experienced.  

 

I will start.  I have a friend who had to have some precancerous cells lasered off in in ass.  He found it out about 6 months after he tested HIV+ at 27.  The doctor says it could have been the HIV, or just normal sex that brought it on.  Hence why I now get routine anal pap smears.

 

What else you guys got.     

I've been diagnosed with AIDS related cancer.  It's been surgically removed and I have to go to an oncologist.  And my HIV is completely in check and undetectable, so this is pretty rare.  My doc is concerned because it's such a strange occurance.