Simply put, being infected with AIDS does not mean the "end" of life, and hiv/AIDS patients can get a better prognosis through early detection, early diagnosis, and early treatment.
In fact, with the timely detection of HIV infection and the immediate and immediate implementation of effective antiviral therapy, the patient's life expectancy and quality of life will not be greatly affected.
How do I live after being infected with HIV?
After the initial screening, re-examination, disease control and diagnosis, and finally diagnosed with AIDS, antiviral treatment should be started immediately after the diagnosis of AIDS, that is, detection is treatment.
At this stage, AIDS still cannot be completely cured, so during the treatment process, patients should strictly follow the doctor's instructions to adhere to ART treatment, and must not stop or change the medicine without authorization during the period.
Compared with the treatment of AIDS, the "psychological construction" of AIDS patients is actually a difficult point.
In order to adapt and adjust to the "life after infection" faster, HIV-infected people must first make several psychological preparations:
1. Adjust the psychological state in time to alleviate the "acute stress response".
Many people I have come into contact with cannot accept this in the early stages of HIV infection. In fact, this is not difficult to understand, no matter whose head this matter falls, it is a general existence of "blowing up thunder and thundering the top", and for a while and a half, no one can bear it.
This state can last for days, and you may be "highly nervous, extremely depressed, confused, mentally broken, emotionally explosive...".
What are the future plans to talk about at this time? How to live in the future? You don't have the heart to think about it, and timely relief of the symptoms of "acute stress response" is the key.
At this time, if necessary, you can talk to your closest friends, family members who love you, or professionals and ask for their help.
At this stage, unconditional love and tolerance are what you need most.
2. Adjust negative emotions in a timely manner and avoid excessive behavior.
Many people, when they first hear the news of infection, the whole person is to be destroyed once, and only after it is destroyed can they be psychologically rebuilt.
Even after the "acute stress" period, you may still have a lot of negative emotions, and this emotional thing is terrible. At this point, you may not only hate the person who spreads AIDS to you, but also hate yourself, and even everyone around you.
At this time, negative emotions are a "time bomb" that can explode at any time. You should calm it well, do not let it anger the people or things around it, take the necessary measures to avoid the spread of AIDS, and do not have uncontrollable excesses.
If AIDS is "deliberately" transmitted to others, it will be a serious violation of the law and will harm others and harm oneself.
3. Explain yourself in time to avoid falling into anxiety and depression.
Slowly you will accept the reality, accept that after you are infected with AIDS, you may still fall into a state of boundless anxiety and depression, this very "low, depressed, depressed" state of mind will affect all aspects of your life.
You may feel that everything in your life has lost its meaning, and even living is a burden, and some people will have some particularly silly thoughts.
At this stage, don't force yourself, all you have to do is relax yourself and go out for more.
Eventually, when you have accepted the fact that you are infected with AIDS, and there is no longer too much "complaining", you can start planning for the future life.
Understand AIDS and face it head-on
There is no doubt that AIDS is a terrible and vicious infectious disease.
In general, the "fear" of AIDS-infected people mainly focuses on three aspects: 1. AIDS will greatly affect their life expectancy and quality of life; 2. Will the cost of AIDS treatment be an astronomical amount; 3. AIDS patients will face all kinds of incomprehension and discrimination from the outside world alone.
Here's how we're going to address these "fears" and regain confidence in life:
1. Will AIDS greatly affect the life expectancy and quality of life of infected people?
Although in most people's minds, AIDS is synonymous with a "terminal illness", meaning "soon to live", in fact, these ideas are outdated, or wrong.
We cannot deny the great harm of AIDS, but for AIDS patients, AIDS is now a "chronic disease" that can be treated by drugs and controlled by drugs.
It can even be optimistic to say that AIDS, like chronic diseases such as "diabetes" and "high blood pressure", can be maintained relatively healthy through medication and a healthier lifestyle.
Now, medical technology is still constantly advancing, newer, better, more convenient, less side effects of drugs continue to develop out, AIDS patients if they can receive timely and standardized treatment, to ensure good treatment compliance, maintain good living habits, regular physical testing, then through the system of antiviral therapy (HARRT therapy) can effectively control the toxin HIV virus in the body of the infected person.
According to the Chinese GUIDELINEs for the Diagnosis and Treatment of AIDS, "Most patients should have a drop in plasma viral load of more than 1 log within 4 weeks after antiviral therapy, and the viral load should reach undetectable levels in 3 to 6 months after treatment."
What is this concept? Being able to control the virus in the body and keep the viral load below detection for a long time means that you can be in an asymptomatic period for a long time (almost indistinguishable from the average person), and even sex will not spread HIV to others.
According to the latest study: "People living with HIV who are treated with prescribed medications are able to maintain healthy and no risk of transmitting the HIV virus to sexual partners if they reach and maintain a viral load undetected." ”
So, does AIDS greatly affect the lifespan and quality of life of infected people? The key is whether you receive effective antiviral therapy.
In fact, through treatment, AIDS patients can obtain a normal life expectancy and quality of life that is basically the same as that of ordinary people, and they can also have love, have legal marriages, and even have their own healthy offspring.
All of the above can be done!
2. Will the cost of AIDS treatment be astronomical?
Many infected people have consulted on this issue, and they are worried about the high cost of treatment and do not want to treat it at all.
Here, I must remind everyone that it is very undesirable to let AIDS develop without treatment!!!
In fact, unlike everyone imagines, AIDS is not a disease in itself.
The real scary part of AIDS is that when the HIV virus infects a human body, it targets the most important CD4+ T lymphocytes in the human immune system and destroys them massively.
Eventually, AIDS will seriously affect the normal immune function of the human body, and even make people lose almost all of their immune function, at this time, AIDS patients, the immune system function is seriously impaired, patients will be susceptible to a variety of opportunistic infections, and may suffer from a variety of malignant tumors.
In fact, in the early stages of AIDS infection, it is relatively easy to suppress viral replication, control the viral load in the body, and reduce the damage of the virus to the immune system.
And if you ignore it and let the disease develop to the onset period, the condition of AIDS patients will become complex and deep, and the treatment will be more troublesome. At this stage, the cost of various treatments is really astronomical.
Moreover, it is important to note that domestic AIDS treatment drugs are provided free of charge by the state, which are sufficient to cope with the work of "inhibiting viral replication and controlling the viral load in the body".
Therefore, the treatment of AIDS will not have much financial pressure for AIDS patients and families.
There are still many rumors on the Internet: "Free drugs will have great side effects, which are harmful to the liver and kidneys", how to say it, now the side effects of free antiviral drugs provided by the national disease control are very small, which can fully meet the daily needs of most patients.
Some patients may experience side effects of varying degrees during THE treatment of AIDS, but as the medication progresses, most of the side effects will gradually ease over time. Even if you need to change the medicine and choose the self-funded drug, the cost of a month is often only a few hundred to two or three thousand, which is definitely not astronomical.
However, if the discovery is not timely, or the treatment is not timely, delaying the best time for treatment, the HIV virus continues to replicate in the human body, seriously destroying the body's immune system, and even the patient may have serious complications such as infection or tumor. At this time, the treatment is more difficult, and the cost of the treatment will increase accordingly.
Therefore, immediately after the diagnosis of AIDS, the immediate implementation of antiviral treatment is the most effective and economical way to treat AIDS.
The latest guidelines for HIV diagnosis and treatment in mainland China have clearly stated that once HIV infection is confirmed, regardless of CD4+ T lymphocyte level, it is recommended to start treatment immediately.
Early diagnosis and treatment, to ensure good compliance, can effectively delay the progression of the course of AIDS and reduce the risk of AIDS-related diseases.
In fact, scientific antiviral treatment can restore the number of CD4 immune cells in the human body and maintain it at a high level, so that the body's immune system can be rebuilt.
3. Will AIDS patients face all kinds of incomprehension and discrimination from the outside world alone?
This, how to say it, although we have been popularizing AIDS and creating a relaxed social environment, the public still "talks about AIDS" and avoids it.
Realistically speaking, pressure and discrimination are real and will not change much in a short period of time.
However, I think it takes time for society to develop for the better, and it also takes time for people's perceptions to change. What we can personally feel is that life has become better and better, people's quality is getting higher and higher, and the protection of "rights" and "privacy" in society is more and more in place.
So, give society some confidence.
Of course, we must also exercise a strong heart and live for ourselves.
Try to keep yourself calm and positive, work well, and earn more money.
If the heart is sunny, there is no need to be sad. Let go of a thought, and feel at ease. No hate, no resentment, no stay or love. Those who can't pass in the past will pass, smile warmly, and the years are still young.
What do I need to pay attention to in life?
1, it is very important for people living with AIDS, to protect their privacy.
In fact, the State has clear requirements for the protection of the privacy rights of people with AIDS:
The Regulations on the Prevention and Control of AIDS promulgated by the State clearly indicate:
Article 3: Units and individuals must not discriminate against persons living with HIV, AIDS patients, or their families. The legitimate rights and interests of people living with HIV, AIDS patients and their families such as marriage, employment, medical treatment, and school attendance are protected by law.
Article 39: When disease prevention and control agencies and entry-exit inspection and quarantine agencies conduct HIV/AIDS epidemiological investigations, the units and individuals under investigation shall truthfully provide relevant information.
Without the consent of the person or his or her guardian, no unit or individual may disclose the names, addresses, work units, portraits, medical history materials, and other information that may infer the specific identity of hiv-infected persons, AIDS patients, and their families.
2. After starting to take the drug, be sure to ensure good compliance.
The treatment of AIDS requires lifelong medication, and once the treatment begins, it is necessary to maintain good compliance, and good compliance means that it is necessary to strictly follow the doctor's instructions to take the drug regularly and quantitatively, and cannot stop the medication and change the medication.
Without good adherence, the virus is likely to develop drug resistance and replicate aggressively in the human body again, forcing treatment regimens to change. If compliance has been poor, it is likely that you will eventually face a situation where no drugs are available.
In addition, after taking the drug, it is also necessary to pay attention to and detect the changes in various indicators of the body in time, and regularly detect the CD4 cell count in the body in order to find abnormalities and adjust the treatment plan in time.
3. Take effective measures to avoid the continued spread of AIDS.
In the Regulations on the Prevention and Control of AIDS, it not only protects the legitimate rights and interests of AIDS patients, but also stipulates the obligations of AIDS patients.
Article 38: People living with HIV and AIDS patients shall perform the following obligations:
(1) Accept epidemiological investigation and guidance from disease prevention and control agencies or entry-exit inspection and quarantine agencies;
(2) Promptly inform the person with whom they have sexual relations of the facts of infection or onset of the disease;
(3) When seeking medical treatment, truthfully inform the receiving doctor of the fact of infection or illness;
(4) Take necessary protective measures to prevent infection with others.
People living with HIV and aids must not knowingly transmit AIDS in any way.
4. Develop good work and rest habits, keep a comfortable mood, balanced nutrition, and exercise appropriately.
The treatment of AIDS is a long battle, and in the process of fighting the disease, you must understand that you are likely to carry the HIV virus for life.
Therefore, at this moment, a strong physique is essential.
In order to develop a strong physique, we must cultivate good work and rest habits, go to bed early and get up early, do not stay up late, quit smoking and alcohol;
Ensure a balanced nutritional intake, pay attention to supplementation of various vitamins, you can appropriately eat some immune-enhancing compounds;
Proper physical exercise, AIDS people are not suitable for strenuous physical confrontation exercise, relatively speaking, jogging, walking is still very suitable.
Having said all this, I hope you can see it.
If you are infected with AIDS, through treatment, you can also obtain a life and quality of life that is basically the same as that of ordinary people. Infected with AIDS, it will have a certain impact on your life, but it will not prevent you from having a wonderful life.
So, fine.
The article is from Birch Forest Health Information