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Hi Bust, well that is quite interesting. Well, while on topic of HIV, I may as well check in with an update. It is crazy and a flash, but that post I started is coming up in nearly 2 years now. It is hard to believe that for me.

 

I read through that thread from start to finish not so long ago. I m surprised, but it has actually changed peoples opinions and behaviours from what I can gather.

 

I m sure there are lots a few people who have googled HIV and Thailand, after they have come back from holiday, or who are just paranoid about their behaviour in LOS and found that thread coming up...So hopefully it has some effect, and paranoids go and get tested sooner rather than later, rather than being a nervous wreck for 18 months like myself.

 

One of the posters in that thread said, that he thought the worst was behind me a few days after I made that post. I must pm him and say he was right, that the last 2 years have been much better, than the two years before it, ironically knowing I was poz made me feel better than not knowing,which I guess makes sense.

 

Well, it really hasnt been too bad at all. If anyone ever gets that news, well it really does get better once you can sort it out in your head.

 

To be honest I havent really been thinking about it at all. I would say it comes into my head one every couple of weeks...but I don't dwell, just many things can come into your head at anytime...HIV is no different.

 

I think alot of this has to do with the medical side of things...I have been getting blood tests now since 2 years ago this August.

 

I have went to see a specialist in Bumrungrad in that time, and have seen tow specilists in the UK.

 

So far CD4 has been

 

740

832

940

1032

760

860

1160 was the last one 3 weeks ago...The viral load has been undetectable since day one.

 

They have done roche viral load tests and all, and the doctor sat me down at my last meeting and said that they may consider putting me into a status of "super controller" if I can make another 12 months like this, which will be nearing the five year mark...This is all without medication. So thus far my body seems to be controlling the virus on its own, and I only need to go now 3 times a year and not four. I have had 6 months between appointments also.

 

My cd4 have actually increased in the trend, and not fallen at all, and no vl. It will be four years this winter.

 

So, if anyone else has had this news, keep your chin up as its not really too bad. I know I have been lucky so far. However, I know that these things can change, however you can olny live with the facts right now.

 

And if I have to take meds in the future so be it.

 

The only thing that is alittle annoying is the shagging part of things,haha. I miss my one night stands and BJ's...pretty shallow, eh?

 

Hope to get back for long stay in Thailand next year, if a few things work out. Been back since, and its all fun still.

 

Oh and by the way, I was meaning to write this a while back...

 

I was there with my mate in bangkok for a few months, a while back. He knows about me of course, however, and is now shit scared. He did meet two girls on Sukhumvit, and he asked if they would mind getting tested, before he did anything. He just asked casually, no pressure if they would mind. They both did not mind. So he went to Bumrungrad the next day with the girl, and got the tests. Of course at different times( weeks apart when he met the two girls. Both were HIV negative, but one tested postive for hepatitis, and the other tested for something else(which was easily treatable), which he got her treatment for, I can't remember which one it was, maybe gonorrhea. I ll check...

 

So two out of two tested for an STD. So there is alot of stuff out there...

 

Cheers, laters. JS.

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