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Avatar m tn org/wiki/HIV#Prognosis quotes studies showing a life-time expectancy of as much as 50 years from infection. There is undoubtly going to be great further advances in HIV treatment in the years to come. And some scientists haven't even given up on finding a functional cure or even drugs that would allow full erradication of HIV from the body.
Avatar m tn - worse things happen to people than becoming positve, everyone will be faced with some sort of challenge or tragedy in their life, you cant expect to escape it and it is what make us appreciate life more. life expectancy with hiv is about 50 years at the moment and new treatments have recently been devoloped that are started to attack even the dormant virus...ie. progress is still happening AIDS will just be a minor ailment soon maybe even totally cured.
Avatar n tn Pls let me know what will be the life expectancy with HIV 2 virus . and which medications need to start. My CD4 count is 580. cd4/cd8 >1, Having tingling and burning sensation in legs, thighs and arms from last 7 years. Oral trush also there. In India I did DUO TEST fourth generation CMIA all negative, RApid Test is also came negative. Western Blot for HIV 1 is negative and HIV 2 is indeterminate.
Avatar m tn Piles also [from this i think that he must have developed AIDS, but i have not seen reports)........ I want to know his life expectancy from this point of time. Please guide me about this, I love this person too much..... I have spent happy time in childhood with him..... so have to plan few things now.
Avatar f tn At what point should he start taking them, so they wait until his T-Cell count drops and he does get AIDS? He has a friend with the disease and she had HIV for 11 years and just recently started medication when she got sick and went to the hospital and her T-Cell count was significantly lower. Are there a lot of bad side affects to the medications? I also read that the average life expectancy is 24 years after infection, is this true.
Avatar n tn Pls let me know what will be the life expectancy with HIV 2 virus . and which medications need to start. My CD4 count is 580. cd4/cd8 >1, Having tingling and burning sensation in legs, thighs and arms from last 7 years. Oral trush also there. In India I did DUO TEST fourth generation CMIA all negative, RApid Test is also came negative. Western Blot for HIV 1 is negative and HIV 2 is indeterminate.
Avatar f tn Does anyone know what is the life expectancy of someone who has chronic hepatitis B?
Avatar m tn Only her doctor can give you an idea of what her life expectancy is. For me, I think it's about quality of life. I don't know if I'd put her through radiation at her age. This is a very personal thing, but I feel very strongly about this. I've known many much younger people who endured all the chemo and radiation for cancer, only to still die from the cancer. So what life they had left was spent being miserably sick. It's a big decision for you. Take care....
Avatar n tn What is the projected life expectancy of an 81 year old in good health except for COPD?
Avatar m tn I was wondering what the average life expectancy is for someone who is bipolar? I've done some research online and I was unable to figure out if having bipolar affects your life expectancy or not. There wasn't a lot of information available about it, but I imagine that's because there are a lot of factors that go into determining that.
Avatar f tn severe hypoxemia, 80 -85 % blood oxygen. what is the life expectancy? female 58 years old.
Avatar m tn EWH / HHH, I was recently reading some article and it got me curious what the life expectancy of people living with HIV currently is with modern medication. From what I understand current medication has evolved so much and is very potent. Is it more of a chronic condition now with modern drugs or not? Magic Johnson is living with it for a long while it seems and looks healthy every time I see him on TV. Thank you.
Avatar f tn I doubt very highly he is a transplant option. Any advice or helpful suggestions would be appreciated. Even a life expectancy - whether good or bad would be nice. He's not on oxygen at this time.
Avatar f tn Since I cannot speak with doctors and I cannot take time off from work to visit on a regular basis, what would her life expectancy be, since she is refusing to stop the drinking?
Avatar f tn I believe each person is different. But, if you have been diagnosed with cancer it is important to start treatment as soon as possible to stop progression of the disease, it can only get worse not better. And survival depends on many factors such as, the stage, the grade of the cancer cells (1, 2, 3.....
Avatar f tn what is the life expectancy of a person who was just diagnosed with alzheimers at 90?
Avatar f tn Since we have a similar hx and tx, I wanted to respond. Drs dont like to give us life expectancy answers, do they? We know they are right when they say it is all relative, it all depends on so-and-so, etc etc. but we still want a statistically based ball-park figure, right? I want to hear things like "You have a 70% chance of recurrence within 3-5 years," or "56% of those who have a similar recurrence will die within the following 2 years.
Avatar n tn Hi, The chemotherapy would have immediate and delayed effects. Some of the immediate side effects like nausea and vomiting already have fairly good medications to counter the adverse experience of treatment. The other symptoms such as fatigability still need much work (put another way, this is something the patient has to deal with). The best demonstration of the treatment working would be to identify some of the symptoms before.
Avatar n tn I am interested in finding out what is the average life expectancy of people having HBV? I acquired the infection at an age of 29 years.....I am now 31 years old.....I am Hbeag -ve, Hbsag +ve, Anti Hbeag +ve, HBV load 3400 copies/ml how bad does this look?
323615 tn?1226193396 Hi Bev, I am sorry to hear that your mother is not doing well. I find estimating life expectancy to very difficult. I have seen people be given months to live and make it more than 10 years and others be given years and make it months. It is a very humbly aspect of medicine. Your doctor probably thinks life expectancy is less than 6 months because they have ordered hospice. I can't give you a good answer on the question of how long and if she will be here for Christmas.
Avatar n tn You really don't want to look for a specific answer to "life expectancy" you need to find out what his doctor plans for treatment and follow that plan. For some folks the time is long and others not so long.......depends! Best of Luck........post again.