Re: Would you stay off meds if your T-Cells went under 200?

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you are opening yourself up for opportunistic infections. Pneumonia is a good example you come down with a cold and it can quickly turn to pneumonia. I have had that happen several times. I am on anti-virals and still was hospitalized for 10 days at a time. Even on meds I one time almost died due to the heavy fluid accumulation in both lungs they were 2/3 full of infection. I would most certainly go on meds to get my counts up and be able to fight infections of all kinds. You need the backup of antivirals to keep you healthy. Its not worth losing your life over when you can add a good many years if you take meds. Its a personal choice but I think one has to decide if they care to die at a younger age or a later age. There is no guarantee you will live to old age but then its best to stack the cards in your favor.

FRANK

In a message dated 12/31/2007 3:41:23 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time, malebeyo@... writes:

If you are healthy with no OI's and not sick and your T-Cellswent under 200 did you always go on meds or are those thatstayed with their natural therapies to keep them well? I'm struggling with that now and need to decide what do do becauseI'm not sick and not on meds but my T-Cells are between 150-200with viral load at 93,000.Am I crazy for not going on the meds yet?Thanks for your thoughts.JT.Welcome to our group!If you received this email from someone who forwarded it to you and would like to join this group, send a blank email to -subscribe and you will get an email with instructions to follow.You can chose to receive single emails or a daily digest (collection of emails). You can post pictures, images, attach files and search by keyword old postings in the group.For those of you who are members already and want to switch from single emails to digest or vice versa, visit www., click on , then on "edit my membership" and go down to your selection. The list administrator does not process any requests, so this is a do-it-yourself easy process ! :)Thanks for joining. You will learn and share a lot in this group!NOTE: I moderate, approve or disapprove emails before they are posted. Please follow the guidelines shown in the homepage. I will not allow rudeness, sexually explicit material, attacks, and anyone who does not follow the rules. If you are not OK with this, please do not join the group. Forward this email to anyone who may benefit from this information! Thanks!In Health, Vergel (PoWeRTX@...)List Founder and Moderator