I’m not “middle class”, I’m not as they would say “educated” and I don’t read newspapers.

I have been diagnosed positive and have been “living with it” for eight years.

I was told recently that I had to start to take the medication otherwise I faced a long, slow, painful and miserable death.

I informed them I was worried about the side effects, as all medications (since birth) have disagreed with me.

You know the small print, the bit that says “very unlikely”, well with me I get it every time!

So they told me not to read it and just take them and I’d be ok.

Why then do some of the side effects say (unlikely but) can result in death, failure of organs etc?

Now am i stupid or can anyone tell me why anyone would want to take a pill that says a possible side effect is death?

In the beginning, when I was first diagnosed they told me they wanted me to stay off meds for as long as possible. Then out of the blue the goal posts changed and they said I would need to start when my count go to a certain level. Then the goal posts changed again and I was told, people need to start taking them as soon as they found out regardless of the count.

Sounds like bad science to me!

For personal reasons I have never been able to trust the medical profession and have always viewed them with suspicion.

I was given anti-biotics last year and was told I needed to take them until my count improved or more likely, when I started the hiv treatment.

I went away and said ok but I never took the anti-biotics.

My results this time had gone from less than 190 to almost 400.
I was told to stop taking the anti-biotics. The doctor asked me if I had decided to take the hiv drugs because of such an improvmnet. I told her I hadn’t started the hiv treatment.

She seemed shocked.

So to a degree I believe hiv drugs are not the answer to the problem. I almost believe in the hiv myth. I believe there are other issues causing the African problem other than hiv. I don’t agree that someone tried to improve sales of vitamins in the way it was carried out.

I know I am very much alone in these beliefs and I may be very much mistaken. It’s a chance I have to take. I’ll die with the drugs and I’ll die without them. We all will one day in any case!

The way the world is going at the moment, it may be better out of the picture!

Now moving on to another subject.

Can you please tell me why the Guardian did not report the homophobic murder of Michael Causer?

Thank you for letting me air my side of a story!

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There is no escape!

I’m enjoying it hugely, by the way.

A huge thank you for helping take on these charlatans, its just such a shame that most journalists seem to swallow it all hook, line, sinker, rod and fisherman.

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Congratulations on your victory.

I will but the Guardian from now on……

congrats from darkest Denmark.

Well done! To you and to the Guardian.

Arthur

And to bring us all down again, someone commented upstream, “I’ll probably sound like a kook here, but the most frustrating food supplement industry has to be that for baby milk.” Just today I heard that babies somewhere (sorry for the lack of detail) have been dying because of contaminated baby milk powder, and hundreds (I think) more are sickening. It’s criminal. Really. It’s probably not within the remit of Bad Science: but who else could do something about this?

Just when I was beginning to wonder whether science had any chance at all against the craziness, along comes a momentous victory like this! Talk about inspiration – science-lovers of the world unite!