Hi there<\/p>\n
Thanks for your question but without more details it is difficult to comment in detail.<\/p>\n
The following things might help though.<\/p>\n
First, have you talked to your doctor about this? If yes, what do they say?<\/p>\n
Secondly, although early HIV drugs caused body changes in some people, including fat loss, this is not a problem with modern treatment. You don’t say which current drugs you are using. Also, which drugs you used in the past.<\/p>\n
Sometimes body changes were worse in people who started treatment with a very low CD4 count. This means that advanced HIV could also be responsible.<\/p>\n
Are the changes recent? Or did this happen slowly over many years?<\/p>\n
Most of us find that our bodies also change as we get older. So as well as being on treatment, you are now 16 years older than when you started.<\/p>\n
Unfortunately, whatever the cause, there is not an easy solution to make your legs larger again. Diet and exercise can help – for example, exercising with weights to build up your leg muscles. This is difficult but it might slowly help.<\/p>\n
Exercise can also help in other ways that makes you appreciate your body. Most of us never quite look the way we want to – especially as we get older – but this shouldn’t stop us still enjoying the body that we have.<\/p>\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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