HIV Myth

Occasionally I lurk some forums for alternative health care options. Recently while browsing the posts I found an individual who stated emphatically that HIV is no disease at all and that HIV does not cause Aids. At first I thought the guy was a nut. I mean, come on, I have been doing the whole drug/doctor thing for my HIV for 11 years now. Could it be true that there isn’t any factual data that immune problems are not associated with HIV at all and could be some other underlying cause?

As I have said before, the drugs combinations I have been on have done very little concerning my viral load or tcell counts. Most of the drugs have been horrible to take. Some made me so sick to my stomach that I could barely function; others gave me diarrhea to the point where I would spend 20 minuets in the bathroom afraid to come out for fear of an accident. Some kept me awake all night, others made me sleepy or jittery, some caused awful dreams; as I said, they were horrible. The last couple of years they haven’t been so bad. I guess the doctor finally figured out if the medicines made me feel lousy I wasn’t going to take them.

They guy posting on this forum stated that the drugs that are meant to help fight the so called disease are actually what is causing people to die from Aids. Interesting, very interesting. At the end of his post he lists the names of doctors and scientists that back up this theory, so being the overly curious type I am, I looked into it.

I went to several websites, all basically saying the same thing, with the same references. One even going so far to say that the government is to blame for everything and that there is no definitive research identifying HIV as the cause of Aids. In fact, some of those who died from ‘Aids’ tested negative for HIV. Hmm. I am tempted to get re-tested to see what happens. I’m tempted to throw my medications away and just try and live a normal life without the pain of having to pop a half a dozen pills a day in hopes that this so called disease will ever get under control.

The problem I have with this is that I don’t know who to believe. For every 100 doctors/scientists who say there is no such thing as HIV there are 500 who say there is. I have no doubt that our government is lying to us about a whole handful of subjects, however I don’t like to think they would take their own citizen’s health for granted. What am I thinking, of course they would. How many times have we heard of government testing viruses on humans, Americans? To say I’m disgusted right now would be an understatement.

I’m not sure what I should do at this point. I can talk to my doctor about it, and he will most likely defend the fact that I do in fact have a ‘real’ disease that needs treatment. Why wouldn’t he? That is what he has been taught, and that is what he believes he is trying to give aide in. I would much rather live a relatively normal life than go on not knowing one way or another. We need more research into this, we need more information. This website has a petition for more research into this topic, as well as some insight as to what I have been saying in this post.