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I read the first comment and I too was infected about 10 years ago and was left untreated for the same. I had a 'nervous breakdown' so to speak about 4 years ago. Couldn't mulitask, I held leadership positions for nearly 30years, but 4 years ago...I stopped at my computer after seeing a long track of multiple mistakes in my work, the mistakes along with my paranoia increased. I couldn't see any light and entered a dark tunnel and thought suicide was the only was to get out!
My HIV went untreated for years. I'll never know how many. But based on what I now know, it was probably somewhere in the neighborhood of ten years. By the time I was diagnosed, my CD4 count was in the 20s. Before it was caught, my husband says I was showing signs of dementia (that's what he was worried about since I was nearly 70). After I started treatment about three years ago, the signs of dementia disappeared but I now wonder whether there was other brain damage not so apparent.
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I'm one of those ER diagnosed HIV cases several yrs ago. Was admitted to ICU with PCP & a CD4 of 2. I'm lucky not to have had other secondary infections yet I've and my boyfriend of 8 yrs has noticed odd things with my memory and focus. I requested and was referred by my GP to take a test(s) to hopefully evaluate if I fall within some spectrum of HAND.
May 16, 2018 • United States