{"id":1006,"date":"2010-01-21T11:24:37","date_gmt":"2010-01-21T10:24:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i-base.info\/qa\/?p=1006"},"modified":"2021-11-22T12:17:11","modified_gmt":"2021-11-22T12:17:11","slug":"i-doubt-when-my-doctor-says-that-life-expectancy-is-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/1006","title":{"rendered":"Doubts when I&#039;m told that my life expectancy is good&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a frequent issue of concern and the answers to the linked questions below should also help.<\/p>\n<p>Because no-one can predict how long any other person will live, it is always a good idea to make the most of your life everyday. Make sure you try to do everything in life that you would have wanted to do before your HIV diagnosis.<\/p>\n<p>Your current results are good though. If you are worrying excessively, then ask to speak to a health advisor or a counsellor at your clinic, in case you need help to overcome a particularly difficult time.<\/p>\n<p>One caveat to these optimistic results, is that HIV-positive people are probably as a slightly higher risk of age-related complications than HIV-negative people, which can be interpreted to mean that it is even more important for HIV-positive people to make healthy long-term lifestyle choices. This includes good diet, exercise, not smoking and alcohol in moderation.<\/p>\n<p>See also these Q&amp;As:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.i-base.info\/qa\/?p=38\">How long will I live if treatment is working?<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.i-base.info\/qa\/?p=543\">How long can someone live with HIV?<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.i-base.info\/qa\/?p=930\">Worrying about life expectancy<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi, i have been HIV-positive for 3 years now<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m male, 43 years old, i started treatment fairly quick (after nine months) but I&#8217;m doing fine.<\/p>\n<p>Viral load is undetectable, CD4 about 700 and CD4% is 37% &#8211; and I&#8217;ve never had any health issues.<\/p>\n<p>My question is, how long can i really expect to live? I know thats not an easy question to answer, but every so often I start to doubt what i have been told.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}