If you found that you had HIV....

[rebgirl420]

I suppose that I would try to live as normally and as safely as possible.

[Coelho]

However in real life i'd probably just try to keep on living. What else can you do?

Wise words... im almost sure that you learned this while you had that health problems some years ago...
Anyway... i think its a mistake to believe that youre doomed only because you have HIV. Like... most people thinks they will die because they have HIV... but they will die regardless anything, with or without HIV... nothing, absolutely NOTHING warrants that any of us will live even more one day... death is stalking all of us... we can be runned over by a car, or have a hearth stroke, or be killed by a criminal, or die in a car accident, or to trip, fall and hit the head in the ground... and the list goes on and on... look at all people that dies everyday... not all of them are old people, and not all of them are people which was in a hospital, with some disease... many people that dies were healthy and young and they were sure that they would live for many years...
So... having HIV really doesnt matter for your lifetime... cause its not the only reason for dying... people who dies from AIDS lives a lot before die from it, and there is a great chance that they die before it from another causes besides the HIV itself.
Anyway, to answer the original poster... probably i would ask for medical marijuana, as it would be the only benefit i would get from having HIV... and would keep on living, until my day come...

BTW, if someone discover that it have HIV, please be VERY careful before starting to take the meds for it... ive read that many of the meds used against the HIV are FAR more harmful than the HIV itself... in fact, many people only starts to have the "symptoms" of AIDS AFTER starting to take the meds... so, be sure of what you are doing.

[ncnavguy]

I'd be really sad I think. Then I'd go off and live a crazy life with the time I had left. I try to go across the ocean in a sun fish. Climb mt. everest w/o a permit or oxygen. Live with cannabals in the rainforest. Maybe spend sometime roving africa. I guess I would take all sorts or risks because I knew I would be a gonner and that it wouldn't be pretty. But all the above stuff I'll start doing at when I reach thirty, because I know I'll be gonner and it wont be pretty.

[LIP]

eerg... i don't think hiv is a disease that needs medical cannabis but it would still be nice... ummm i would probably be very depressed for a while and then become a travelling circus clown

Actually, it IS! Well, HIV isnt really the disease. AIDS suffers benefit from cannabis - mainly because of the munchies. AIDS deminishes the appitite.

They're might be more it does, but that's the one thing i know it helps with.

Cannabis is good for EVERYTHING.

[birdgirl73]

Coelho's right. HIV, at least for people in developed countries who are diagnosed in time, is not an automatic death sentence by any means any more. It's a treatable condition. A chronic one, yes, and it's going to be with you for the rest of your life. But the new drugs make it possible now for people to suppress the viral "expansion" and postpone it from blasting through your immune system to the point that you have full-blown AIDS, often for many decades.

This doesn't mean everyone ought not to protect against it. They should. But just because someone gets HIV these days, it isn't automatically a death sentence like it was for most people 20 years ago. We need to do a lot more to treat and educate people in Africa and some parts of Asia, who are not as lucky as we are in North American and Europe in receiving early diagnoses and treatment. Someday I hope every person in the world will routinely get tested and, if necessary, treated in a way that'll help them have long, relatively healthy lives.

[snowblind]

my only hope would be that i wasnt told throught the vocal stylings of peter griffin adn a barber shop quartet

[Coelho]

BG, i think you didnt understood me completly... even being diagnosed with a incurable and fatal disease is not a greater death sentence than simply being alive... To have born is our death sentence... We all are going to die, by one reason or by another... the only difference is that when people are diagnosed with a fatal disease they become aware of their death... but death will come, dont matter if we are or not aware of it. In fact, im sure most people dies without being aware that they were going to die... what is, for me, a very bitter waste, as people spend their lifes doing useless things and dont enjoying the simple fact of being alive, which is (wrongly) taken for granted... they let their happiness, their dreams, to tomorrow, without knowing that this tomorrow may never come...

PS. 1,420 th post! :rastasmoke:

[geonagual]

BG, i think you didnt understood me completly... even being diagnosed with a incurable and fatal disease is not a greater death sentence than simply being alive... To have born is our death sentence... We all are going to die, by one reason or by another... the only difference is that when people are diagnosed with a fatal disease they become aware of their death... but death will come, dont matter if we are or not aware of it. In fact, im sure most people dies without being aware that they were going to die...

PS. 1,420 th post! :rastasmoke:

I got that..dont matter one way or another..we will all die..
I like that "to have been born is our death sentence" great play on words

[birdgirl73]

I did read your thread too fast, Coelho, and didn't read it all the way through, I realize now after going back over it. I do that sometimes because there's so much ground to cover in this place! You were saying that life itself comes with an expiration date, so, as you choose to see it, it's a death sentence of sorts on its own. Obviously, that's true.

Back to the HIV issue for a moment. Even if I read too fast over what you were saying, I still want people here to realize that HIV doesn't necessarily mean imminent death. And it's VERY important for folks to know that, while some of the anti-viral therapies to suppress HIV can cause some serious side effects, those side effects are nearly always better than the level of sickness they'd end up getting far more quickly if their HIV went untreated. If that weren't the case, those medicines wouldn't be worth prescribing. Certainly patients of all kinds need to be very careful about any type of medicine they're taking, but I think it does people a disservice--and isn't accurate--to say that the current HIV therapies can be far more harmful than HIV itself. Almost nothing is more harmful to people's health than HIV that's been allowed to replicate to the point that it's causing full-blown AIDS.

[Markass]

One of the first things that I would do after contacting my close family members, is get ahold of the state's norml person, and go to the capital to have a nice little chat with the legislators..