Living With HIV - Chicago Women Story

if an illness like any other illness but the stigma is very bad, I told an expert partner. So he turned around and said on the phone. If I go and have an HIV test on and becomes positive, I will shoot you and said I'll get a gun and I'll kill you after sitting down with the Midwife. she told me what was going to happen what the test she's going to do going to be then she said would you like to run each of your tests and I said no she said why have you said no I said I'm well I'm fine.

There's nothing wrong with me two weeks after I got a letter in the post saying can I come back for some more tests, so I sat down and then she said to me your HIV test that you did as come back positive immediately got very distressed. I started shaking. I said I cried I was in shock what I know about her is that people with HIV will die of AIDS. She said things are change now there's now medication people are successfully living with medication. Now and in terms of your child, once you're taking a medication, once the viral load is suppressed, the medication the HIV will not infect well not. So if you will not infect your child during pregnancy and then I said what about me well, what's going to happen to me? I thought they were talking about the baby because they will have the baby, and then I will die or something, and he said no. you'll be fine. So you continue taking medication, the doctors will prescribe medication continue taking your medication, and your viral load will be suppressed. That's the result they expect to see, and the cd4 count, which is the soldiers in my body that fights infections, will go up.

So I left there with hope. I remember saying to them, and I'll soon can I start? I want to start immediately, and she booked me an appointment to see the control. But, unfortunately, they found that my viral load was in its thousands high, and my cd4 count was only 50, and a normal person's cd4 count is about three hundred of 50 was dangerously low, and I was told that if I carried on without pregnancy without taking an HIV test. I would have fallen very ill with an aids-defining illness, and within three months, my viral load had gone from thousands down to under 50, which is undetectable and mycd4 count had gone up to about 400 which is healthy.

When they said a meter is positive, I thought I'd got just a few months left to live. I didn't even think there was a future. I thought like that was it I'm just going to die young, and then it got to the point where I thought I need to tell my son because I believe in telling children things when they're young. So that it becomes normality for them to only gets a teenage period when they're dealing with hormones and all sorts of problems relationship problems, so it's not a big shock after a few like a few months, I was getting ready for school, and when he saw me take the tablets, so I said do you remember that program we watched on telly and those children that were learning about that bulk that people get and there's no cure for it.

He left that early I thought it was funny that mums connected with someone, and I'll tell you if you get cancer, people rally around you, but with HIV, people hearing your story. So you tell them, and they cut you off. They are many HIV-Positive dating sites for only HIV single and their you can read HIV dating tips also. so that's been my experience. I've had dentists take me off their list when they find out that metal positive that happens or where to blows that happened. recently, my family as well they seem to just be waiting for me to they're waiting for me to oh they're waiting to hear the news of maybe died or something they don't seem to understand that I'm okay taking my medication and I'll live long so in terms of my family.

I wish there were a little bit more understanding and a bit more caring. So I'll show a bit more concern for what's going on. Once you're taking medication, your viral load is undetectable, but when the test picks up the virus, your cd4 count is above 300. especially when it's undetectable, which means that you cannot transfer you cannot transmit HIV.