{"id":4525,"date":"2011-08-25T09:47:48","date_gmt":"2011-08-25T09:47:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=4525"},"modified":"2024-10-14T09:18:47","modified_gmt":"2024-10-14T09:18:47","slug":"who-can-i-talk-to-about-treatment-in-yorkshire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/4525","title":{"rendered":"Who can I talk to about treatment in Yorkshire?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are lots of options for support and information. It sounds like you have had a difficult year together and I hope it is getting easier now.<\/p>\n<p>There is a good organisation called Begin who run lots of different services. There contact details are on their website:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.beginwakefield.co.uk\/8.html\">http:\/\/www.beginwakefield.co.uk\/8.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It sounds like you are already doing everything you can by being on treatment. If you would like to talk to someone about treatment options, then you could call the <a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/phoneline\">i-Base phoneline<\/a>, which covers all the UK.<\/p>\n<p>HIV is not infectious in saliva and oral sex from an HIV-positive man on an HIV-negative woman would not be thought to put the woman at risk. Your wife&#8217;s test results show she is HIV-negative and has been lucky and it is good. If you wife is happy for you to give her oral sex then this should not put her at risk.<\/p>\n<p>With a CD4 count under 200, then it is good you are on treatment. I hope the clinic has been prescribing you an antibiotic called Septrin to protect you from infections until your count gets over 200.<\/p>\n<p>Once your viral load becomes undetectable on treatment (75 is already very close), then your risk of transmitted HIV also drops dramatically. Here is a recent medical report on a study showing this.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/15455\">https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/15455<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you decide to call we can talk about all these subjects in more detail.<\/p>\n<p>For more information about treatment, see the Introduction to combination therapy at this link:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/\">https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I can also post you a print copy if they didn&#8217;t give you this at your clinic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m HIV+ with CD4 of 110 and viral load of 75 and I&#8217;m being treated at a GUM clinic in Yorkshire.<\/p>\n<p>Is there anywhere in this area that you know of where I could get some advice or talk to someone about HIV and drug combinations and what I can expect going forward, I don&#8217;t want to just sit taking the tablets to find out in a few years I should have been doing something else and realise it&#8217;s too late and i&#8217;ve reduced my life expectancy and\/or quality.<\/p>\n<p>Also my wife (who is negative) and I are just (after a year) starting to feel like we are ready for some sexual contact, am I right to assume I can perform oral sex on her without protection, I don&#8217;t inject\/take drugs or have any sores on or in my mouth? without risk?<\/p>\n<p>She has tested negative on 3 tests (at time of my diagnosis again after 13 weeks and after 6 months)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,23,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-hiv-transmission","category-starting-treatment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4525","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=4525"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24860,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4525\/revisions\/24860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}