Hi, how are you doing?<\/p>\n
Has your brother seen a doctor? As you have mentioned a meningitis-like headache this requires medical attention immediately.<\/p>\n
No it is not too late to start treatment. Do you know your brothers CD4 count and viral load?<\/p>\n
It is important that your brother does start HIV treatment but he will need his other symptoms managed also. It is also likely that he will be given an antibiotic called co-trimoxazole to take alongside his treatment as his CD4 count recovers. This will be to prevent other infections as his immune system improves.<\/p>\n
Starting treatment does mean that your body will be able to recover. Many people start treatment with very low CD4 counts and over time their body is able to repair. This is a process that can take time but his health will start to improve. How long has your brother been HIV positive?<\/p>\n
Josh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
My brother is HIV positive and he has never taken medication. Now he’s suffering from nervous breakdown, diarrhoea, weight loss, meningitis-like headache, hiccups etc. Is it too late to take ARVs? Is the body going to recover?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adherence","category-all-topics","category-cd4-and-viral-load"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21626","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\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21626"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21627,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21626\/revisions\/21627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}