My boyfriend takes medicine regularly and is infected with AIDS
After a few months together, one day I was napping when I heard the sound of a medicine jar, his alarm went off punctually at half past three every afternoon, writing "I still alive", my expertise combined with his past erratic behavior made me suspect that he might be a carrier.
When I woke up, I began to ask him tentatively, and found that the labels of two bottles of medicine had been torn off. In his confession, although I could not accept this fact, I still held his hand tightly and did not want him to leave.
Because of the epidemic, he originally planned to leave, but I loved him too much and insisted that he stay. Our relationship thus continues to this day.
He told me the u=u principle, that is, as long as you take your medication on time and keep your viral load at an undetectable level, you will not be sexually transmitted. I was concerned about the development of drug resistance, and he explained that as long as you take your medication on time and control your viral load, you will not be prone to drug resistance, because drugs will not lead to drug resistance if they inhibit the virus from multiplying.
In addition, he reminded me that he had taken three pills before once a day, one of which could cause irritability, so it was best to avoid him off for an hour or two after he took the pills.
Due to the pandemic, he no longer needs to take those three medicines. In the past, he returned to China every six months to get his medicine and get it tested, or to find someone to buy it on his behalf. However, the epidemic has continued to this day, and it is impossible to return to China.
He had tried to seek help from the consulate, but the consulate advised him to go to his family doctor for a certificate and a referral to a major hospital. So, we recently went to the hospital of my university.
At the first visit, his blood was drawn for testing. Two weeks later, we went back and the doctor reported that everything was normal, that the virus levels were still below the detectable range, and that he was prescribed to pick up his medication at the pharmacy across the street.
He took the medicine list and asked the pharmacy staff suspiciously if the medical insurance reimbursed him. It turned out that the original price of the drug was as high as 850 euros, but only a nominal 10 euros were paid, and the rest was covered by health insurance.
He excitedly boasted to his fellow patients that he had "picked up the wool of capitalism". Later, we found out that this drug is a new drug that was marketed the year before last and has not yet been approved in China.
He now takes his medicine on time every day before going to bed, and every time it comes, I joke, "Dalang, it's time to take the medicine." "In the process of accompanying him to seek medical treatment, I have a new understanding of this disease.
In the past, textbooks said that AIDS was the cancer of the century, but now it is considered a chronic disease and can live to life expectancy if it is correct. Cocktails** have become more convenient, with only one pill a day, one tablet at a time.
This disease is being gradually conquered by humans, and we should let go of our prejudices that they can live like normal people as long as they take their medicine correctly. Just like my grandmother suffers from cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, she also needs to take medication every day, but the types of drugs are different, but they are all chronic diseases, they are not so terrible, and they will not cause death immediately, let alone be contagious.
Now, I am no longer afraid of this disease, but more understanding and helping.
Once upon a time, on December 1, the science and education channel of ** TV broadcast a documentary about people living with AIDS. The protagonists in the documentary are mostly innocent children whose parents were infected with HIV after their parents sold blood in a blood village, causing them to carry the virus from birth.
The documentary shows that Aunt Peng, the propaganda ambassador at the time, led them to play together, let them imagine the future, when it comes to what they will do in 30 years, in **, whether they can still be reunited together, I was wondering if I could live so long after being infected with HIV, and now I believe that it is completely possible, but I don't know if those children are still as happy as they were back then.
Nowadays, because of the efforts of the WHO and other countries, all kinds of drugs are distributed almost free of charge, and as long as you insist on taking the medicine every day and control the viral load at a very low level, you can live like a normal person.
After all, life is still very long, science and technology are developing rapidly, patients should not be discouraged, correct**, I believe that soon AIDS will be conquered by mankind!