Address 1: Dear specialist, my sister who is HIV positive was exceptionally wiped out around five years prior when she was begun on ARVs. She was thin, weighing just 45kg around then. She has significantly enhanced and is quite battling with weight at 95kg. She likewise has hypertension. Could taking ARVs every day be the reason for this unreasonable weight? Would an occasion from the medications for a couple of months offer assistance?
Juliet
Reply: Dear Juliet, many individuals who have HIV get in shape for different reasons, which could incorporate despondency and loss of craving for nourishment in addition to repetitive looseness of the bowels because of diseases in gut and expanded interest for sustenance by the body expected to battle the contaminations. Be that as it may, when they are guided thoroughly, encouraged to eat an adjusted eating routine and put on ARVs, they recoup and put on weight. They should, however maintain a strategic distance from over reveling on the grounds that after the nourishing needs of the body have been met, the abundance sustenance taken in is changed over into fat that is put away prompting to overweight or heftiness.
Carrying on with an inactive life can add to the issues of such individuals since when one exercises, the body activates the fat to deliver the additional calories or vitality required. Increment in body weight means one's heart needs to work harder to guarantee blood achieves all parts of the body and this implies it needs to produce higher weight. No big surprise your sister has hypertension.
Thus, the expansion in weight is not specifically brought about by ARVs but rather no doubt in light of her dietary patterns and absence of satisfactory work out. That is the reason ailments like hypertension, diabetes and heftiness are now and then alluded to as infections of way of life. Along these lines, she ought to change her way of life however never quit taking her ARVs.
At the point when SHOULD I REVEAL MY HIV STATUS?
Address 2: Dear specialist, I as of late met a man whom I adore in particular. He had flown out abroad to finish his concentrates, however will return soon. He needs us to get hitched when he returns. I am concerned in light of the fact that I am HIV-positive and don't know how and when to let him know. I know he will need us to go for a HIV test before we go far. Is confounding that my viral load is imperceptible and as of late when I went to another facility for medicinal registration, which incorporated a HIV test, I was let it know was negative however I know I have the infection since I lost my first sweetheart to AIDS and have been on ARVs for a long time. My question is, when is it the opportune time to open up about one's HIV status to an accomplice?
Benevolence
Reply: Dear Mercy, losing a sweetheart to AIDS does not really mean you too have HIV. I trust you adhered to the right procedures like being tried for HIV at an enlisted wellbeing office and on the off chance that you turned out HIV positive you had your CD4 tally checked before beginning to take ARVs. This is on account of in the wake of being on ARVs for quite a while, you can have an imperceptible viral load however the HIV test would at present be demonstrating you are certain.
Being HIV negative and with an imperceptible viral load may mean you have never had HIV in any case. That is the reason a HIV test ought to dependably be gone before by pre-test directing and the outcomes given after post-test advising by a HIV capable wellbeing administration supplier who can decipher both positive and negative results accurately. What you ought to do is to run for testing together with your accomplice at a sound wellbeing unit when he returns and in the event that you are still negative that ought to put your apprehensions to rest.
It will likewise kill the obstacle of disclosing your HIV status to each other since you will get your outcomes together. - See more at: http://www.newvision.co.ug/new_vision/news/1439224/taking-arvs-every day cause-abundance weight#sthash.0aCqXfH9.dpuf
Juliet
Reply: Dear Juliet, many individuals who have HIV get in shape for different reasons, which could incorporate despondency and loss of craving for nourishment in addition to repetitive looseness of the bowels because of diseases in gut and expanded interest for sustenance by the body expected to battle the contaminations. Be that as it may, when they are guided thoroughly, encouraged to eat an adjusted eating routine and put on ARVs, they recoup and put on weight. They should, however maintain a strategic distance from over reveling on the grounds that after the nourishing needs of the body have been met, the abundance sustenance taken in is changed over into fat that is put away prompting to overweight or heftiness.
Carrying on with an inactive life can add to the issues of such individuals since when one exercises, the body activates the fat to deliver the additional calories or vitality required. Increment in body weight means one's heart needs to work harder to guarantee blood achieves all parts of the body and this implies it needs to produce higher weight. No big surprise your sister has hypertension.
Thus, the expansion in weight is not specifically brought about by ARVs but rather no doubt in light of her dietary patterns and absence of satisfactory work out. That is the reason ailments like hypertension, diabetes and heftiness are now and then alluded to as infections of way of life. Along these lines, she ought to change her way of life however never quit taking her ARVs.
At the point when SHOULD I REVEAL MY HIV STATUS?
Address 2: Dear specialist, I as of late met a man whom I adore in particular. He had flown out abroad to finish his concentrates, however will return soon. He needs us to get hitched when he returns. I am concerned in light of the fact that I am HIV-positive and don't know how and when to let him know. I know he will need us to go for a HIV test before we go far. Is confounding that my viral load is imperceptible and as of late when I went to another facility for medicinal registration, which incorporated a HIV test, I was let it know was negative however I know I have the infection since I lost my first sweetheart to AIDS and have been on ARVs for a long time. My question is, when is it the opportune time to open up about one's HIV status to an accomplice?
Benevolence
Reply: Dear Mercy, losing a sweetheart to AIDS does not really mean you too have HIV. I trust you adhered to the right procedures like being tried for HIV at an enlisted wellbeing office and on the off chance that you turned out HIV positive you had your CD4 tally checked before beginning to take ARVs. This is on account of in the wake of being on ARVs for quite a while, you can have an imperceptible viral load however the HIV test would at present be demonstrating you are certain.
Being HIV negative and with an imperceptible viral load may mean you have never had HIV in any case. That is the reason a HIV test ought to dependably be gone before by pre-test directing and the outcomes given after post-test advising by a HIV capable wellbeing administration supplier who can decipher both positive and negative results accurately. What you ought to do is to run for testing together with your accomplice at a sound wellbeing unit when he returns and in the event that you are still negative that ought to put your apprehensions to rest.
It will likewise kill the obstacle of disclosing your HIV status to each other since you will get your outcomes together. - See more at: http://www.newvision.co.ug/new_vision/news/1439224/taking-arvs-every day cause-abundance weight#sthash.0aCqXfH9.dpuf
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