Thanks for your question.<\/p>\n
It is a difficult one, because there isn’t one easy answer.<\/p>\n
Usually, with time, things get easier.<\/p>\n
If you were newly diagnosed, or only started treatment recently, this does take a while. Focusing on the fact that with an undetectable viral load you have stopped HIV developing or from damaging your immune system may help.<\/p>\n
Or that taking pills only takes a few minutes each day (leaving you free for the other 23 hours and 55 minutes a day to do other things).<\/p>\n
If you currently have side effects, talk to your doctor about adapting your treatment so these are easier is important.<\/p>\n
Your overall quality of life needs to be good – but the routine bit definitely takes a while to get used to.<\/p>\n
After a while though, most people say that it gets easier and they reach a point where, apart from adherence, they don’t think so much about it.<\/p>\n
If this is causing you a lot of difficulty then perhaps ask about whether counselling support is available, in case the worry is related to unresolved issues of your original HIV diagnosis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Currently I am on treatment and doing fine.<\/p>\n
Everyday my mind keep telling me I am a HIV positive so automatically. I try not to think about it but can not help it and keep hearing it everyday.<\/p>\n
This disturbance cause me very stressful and I am having trouble living a ‘normal’ life.<\/p>\n
How should I manager it?<\/p>\n
Thank you very much.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,26,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-living-with-hiv-long-term","category-side-effects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138","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=138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}