{"id":4645,"date":"2011-09-13T13:00:23","date_gmt":"2011-09-13T13:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=4645"},"modified":"2011-09-13T13:00:23","modified_gmt":"2011-09-13T13:00:23","slug":"are-gall-stones-related-to-hiv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/4645","title":{"rendered":"Are gall stones related to HIV?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The NHS website has pretty good information about gall bladder removal at this link<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I haven’t come across many studies relating to this as a complication of HIV, so may have been one of those things that you could have got even if you were HIV-negative.<\/p>\n

Your response at the clinic does not sound ideal – but I’m sure the surgeon will be used to standard precautions for your care. If you are worried about this though, this would be a reason to contact HIV Scotland<\/a> who could provide advocacy support.<\/p>\n

This might involve formally writing to the hospital after your operations \u00a0if you are unhappy with your care.<\/p>\n

With such a good CD4 count and an undetectable viral load, recovery time should be similar to someone who is HIV-negative.<\/p>\n

You might was to take sufficient HIV meds with you for the nights you are in hospital, as this is routinely asked by some hospitals, and it will make sure that you do not miss doses for these days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hi and thank you for being such a dedicated group of people to make this resource possible.<\/p>\n

My question surrounds gallstones. I have recently been admitted to hospital having collapsed with severe pain which I'm advised is due to gallstones in my gall bladder. I am taking atripla and have been for about a year now. My v.load is undetectable and my cd4 is about 600. I have been in good health throughout my 30 years of life so far and my diet while not always perfect is not to bad. I am waiting for an MRI scan having had an ultrasound to confirm the stones. They hope to do key hole surgery to remove my gall bladder. Can you advise me is there anything I should be aware of or take caution of being HIV-positive? Whilst being fortunate to be in the UK (so having good access to Meds) I live in a remote part of Scotland and so far the surgeons\/drs and nurses seem to know very little about HIV. One even exclaimed “oh Christ I should go and put some gloves on” after reading my notes. I wouldn’t mind but he was not taking blood but simply doing an xray!<\/p>\n

Are HIV and gallstones closely related in that the Meds may be a factor in me getting these stones? I trust without my gall bladder I can continue as normal without any issues regarding my hiv?<\/p>\n

Would recovery time be longer or now my virus is undetectable etc should everything be just the same as if I were negative?<\/p>\n

Thanks for your valuable time and continued support to all of us affected by this virus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-access-to-treatment","category-all-topics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4645","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=4645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4645\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}