Uh ok we get the picture you're hiv+ and bitter about it... Sorry for you and all, but no need to project on everyone else, contradict yourself 20 times over, go on and on about how positive is negative and negative is positive, and confuse the hell out of an entire board that isn't even ABOUT hiv to begin with, alright?
...We've got our own problems.
Yes, apparently you do such as not being able to follow a thread so you respond to the wrong person. I am not HIV+. And I am not contradicting myself.
As for the topic the whole thread is relevant since Candida overgrowth is a common issue with AIDS patients. So if you don't want to hear about this on topic subject then don't read it!!!!!! It is so simple!
Btw, you're not making sense in your rant anyway. Who in their right mind and why would put an immunocompromised patient on immunosuppressants?!
It happens all the time. Infections can take hold due to immune suppression. Yet how often are people given antibiotics, which suppress the immune system, for these infections. Why don't you quit bitching and try to learn something instead?!!!
As for AZT this is given to people testing HIV+. But HIV+ DOES NOT mean immune suppressed. HIV+ does not equal AIDS. AIDS is not a disease it is a syndrome, which is a group of symptoms. These symptoms include chronic Candida infections. See, you have the opportunity to learn something if you choose.
PS no, candidiasis is not hiv-dependent whatsoever.
You still don't get it. There is no common test to prove the presence of HIV. And HIV cannot wipe out the immune system. But Immune suppression related to AIDS and AIDS medications does increase the risk of Candida overgrowth.
Since you obviously don't care about people worried about their health why don't you stay out of the discussion?
BABIES get it all the frickin time (about 1/3 of all children).
Candida is found in everyone, but it is Candida overgrowth that we are worried about. And this is normally seen in children and adults that have taken immune suppressing antibiotics or are otherwise immune suppressed. There are numerous causes of immune suppression. Some viruses associated with AIDS fall in that category.
So if someone with cancer taking immune suppressing chemotherapy drugs develops Candida overgrowth and they ask about the connection are you going to attack them as well.? Tell them to go to the cancer boards instead? Tell them that you don't want to hear it because you have your own problems?
and got it back before hiv ever migrated from the great apes or wherever the hell the modern community managed to pick it up from.
I could tell you exactly where it came from. But you obviously don't care about anything or anyone other than yourself so I am won't waste my time explaining that to you as well.
as evidenced by textbooks written 50 years before hiv/aids ever popped up. end of story.
Again, Candida can take over when someone is immune suppressed. And there are NUMEROUS reasons for immune suppression. That is the end of story!!!
a) Not a single person on the candidiasis board has claimed to be hiv+, making the point moot. And "hide username" is such a well-known function too, so people not wishing to advertise their status using their username can do so and know how.
b) "hiv+ is not testable for"... "aids is not real / real but something else entirely / caused by meds / caused by being hiv- as compared to perfectly healthy hiv+ people"... WHATEVER. NEWSFLASH: WE DON'T CARE. (!!!)
c) YOU'RE MAKING IMPRESSIONABLE PEOPLE NERVOUS. Telling people like LBP that their hiv- test results don't mean they don't have aids is unethical. The poor guy/gal totally freaked out. Go preach elsewhere. San Francisco streets are a popular destination as I've heard, with BONUS POINTS if you're spouting nonsense while naked, with a footlong beard, or inside a cardboard box.
This is the CANDIDIASIS forum.
The hiv conspiracies forum is.... ELSEWHERE.
You obviously have some anger issues to deal with. Regardless what has been posted about the connection between Candida overgrowth and immune suppression for any reason is relevant and of interest to some people. Apparently even you since you keep reading the thread. And I feel it is important for people to understand their issues, not to just say do this or that. What I have posted is documented in the medical journals, and so is known by the medical community and has been known for a very long time. And as I have said previously it is all easily verifiable with a little research.
But again the poster was asking about a connection between HIV and Candida overgrowth. So the discussion is on topic. Furthermore, in order to answer the question properly it has to be defined as to what HIV+ really means, which is nothing. But I am glad to hear that you are a self proclaimed psychic since you are able to channel that he is freaking out. I will keep that in mind if I ever decide to contact any of my dead relatives or friends.
Adieu is right!
No he is not. He thinks he knows all the answers even though he dis not bother to even look at the evidence before passing judgment. This is the reason we still have to deal with issues such as cancer and AIDS. Both could be easily eliminated altogether if people would just stop sticking their heads in the sand so they do not have to look at the facts. People are all too frequently scared by the facts, which is why they respond with comments like conspiracy theories instead of responding with opposing facts. This is where the term ignorance is bliss really comes in. People tend to feel safe in their ignorance. For instance you will hear people say they will not listen to the news. Again what is really going on scares them so they would rather live in their Polyanna world so they do not have to be confronted with and deal with reality.
On the other hand there are people on this forum who are interested in the facts. So I am posting for them. Nobody is forcing you or anyone else to read my posts. So for those who don't want to hear it the answer is simple, stop reading my posts. But don't try to censor people to just what you want to hear because you are not the only one reading these boards.
Hveragerthi, please can you give up on that subject. To contribute to the fact that people may think that HIV testing is useless is completly unethical and socially dangerous.
It is useless. There are no common tests to prove the presence of a particular virus. You can only do this with electron microscopy, which is extremely expensive, difficult and expensive. As far as unethical? Well what do you call a test that the medical establishment itself admits has numerous false positives due to serological cross reactivity? And that is only one cause of false positives. So what is ethical about telling people they are infected with a virus they likely do not have just so they can prescribe a bunch of crap medications that are going to wipe out their immune system and eventually killing them? And socially dangerous? Is it not socially dangerous to tell people they are infected with HIV when this may not be the case so they lose their insurance, jobs, family members and friends and maybe even their life? So I take it people being prescribed needlessly and dying needlessly is fine with you?
I already know that you now want to paste my sentence and add your own comments saying that I don't get it. But before doing that please just try to understand what we mean and stop being obsessed by your own truth -
It is not my own truth, it is KNOWN medical facts that again can be easily verified with a little research in the medical journals.
behaviour which is so obvious when you answer to the posts pasting line by line as if you were some kind of teacher going through the homeworks of his own students.
I post the way I do because it is easier to follow the posts. Again if you do not like the way I post don't read my posts.
Please also remember that a lot of people who are suffering from candidiasis have mental issues related to candida such as anxiety, phobia and stress. Please do not add to their distress.
So telling someone that they may not be infected with HIV when they think they are for sure is adding to their stress. I guess you also believe that when a doctor tells someone that they made a mistake about their cancer diagnosis and they really did not have cancer that this is going to raise their anxiety? Gee, I thought someone would be relieved to find out that their diagnosis of a deadly condition is likely wrong. I guess since giving people hope gives you anxiety that you better not read any more of my posts. I would hate to see you go over the edge because someone found out they were wrongly diagnosed.
When I started to feel sick from candida I was feeling so bad that I seriously taught I may have some kind of very serious terminal illness. Going thru testing wasn't easy but knowing the results helped me to lower my anxiety level.
But this board is not about you now is it? Again the poster wanted to know about HIV and Candida. But in order to properly answer the question they needed to know what HIV is and is not, how immune suppression plays a role, etc. Again if you want to maintain your bliss then ignore my posts. As I said this board is not about you, nor is it for you. The people who really want to learn should have the right to hear the facts. And if they wish to verify those facts they are welcome to go to the medical library and verify them. What people don't need here are self proclaimed dictators that feel they have the right to dictate which relevant information will be allowed and in what format it should be presented.
Scroll up and check out the original question. It was all about how people were confused since they did NOT have hiv/aids/cancer/tuberculosis/etc., and textbooks told them that wasn't right, that fungal/yeast problems only come as opportunistic infections.
I don't see how you are coming to that conclusion. Here is the original post:
I'm kind of confused about the whole theory that only HIV/AIDS and cancer patients are susceptible to candidiasis because from what I can tell, not all people with HIV appear to suffer from it, in fact some look physically very healthy. Why do you think this is?
So the poster was not claiming anything about people that "did NOT have hiv/aids/cancer/tuberculosis/etc" as you claim. Nor did they mention anything about "textbooks" as you are claiming. So why do you keep adding your own words to other people's quotes?
What the poster wanted to know was whether or not it is true that only people with HIV/AIDS can get Candida overgrowth. And as I said before the only way to properly answer that question is to first explain what HIV+ means, which is NOTHING. And before you go off in another rant over this fact why don't you try reading the evidence I posted in my last post from the medical journals and even a HIV antibody test packet insert admitting that the test cannot confirm the presence of particular antibodies let alone the actual virus. Then you and #65089 can help each other in pulling your feet out your mouths!!!!
A forum is a public space. It's not a blog that remains the intellectual property of his sole creator.
Correct, a public forum where I have just as much right as anyone else to post information. The forum should not be controlled by self-proclaimed dictators who want to control what can and cannot be said.
Knowing that you cannot tell us to not read your post if we do not agree with their content. It's our right and even our duty to bring to the attention of others what we believe to be false, dangerous or inapropriate.
Key word is believe. There are people who still believe the earth is flat and that Elvis is still alive and well. So because they believe this does this make it true?
What really gets me is that you will sit here and waste all sorts of time arguing over something you clearly know NOTHING about. But you refuse to take 15 minutes to verify the facts I have presented by looking in the medical journals. For that matter you do not even have to open the journals. You can check abstracts online with Medline, or check online journal articles. But apparently you prefer to remain bliss in your ignorance.
You do not present the Facts as you like to say.
How do you know? Have you bothered to look and see if the information is in the medical journals or are you just making another assumption like usual?
You present a selection of facts that fits into your own theory which has nothing to do with some kind of universal or encyclopedic knowledge.
I love how you think the world revolves around you. As long as you refuse to look at the evidence the evidence does not exist. I hate to break the news to you but things don't work that way in reality.
There is a huge difference between presenting the facts and presenting some facts. You are talking about peer reviews articles that are supposed to confirm what you've been postulating in this forum while you're leaving aside 99% of the findings of a whole scientific and medical community.
LOL!!!! So how did you come up with 99%? Did you just pull that out of your magic hat, or do you have proof to your claim?
Let's take a look at some of the evidence straight from the mainstream medical community:
Rayfield M et al. HIV culture. Chapter 7 in “AIDS Testing: a comprehensive guide to technical, medical, social, legal and management issues”. Springer Verlag. 1994;129.
“Although serologic assays are capable of identifying prior exposure to human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), they cannot alone demonstrate whether an individual is currently harboring the virus. The first method used to ascertain if a blood specimen contained HIV was co-cultivation with stimulated primary human lymphocytes or continuous human T cell lines and monitoring the culture supernatants for the presence of reverse transcriptase. Although viral isolation has proved to be a poor diagnostic tool because of its relative insensitivity, high costs, and lengthy time requirements, culture has served as the standard by which all other diagnostic tests have been judged and established. Furthermore, virus culture remains the steadfast route by which new variants are identified, isolated and initially characterised.”
Kion TA, Hoffmann GW. Anti-HIV and anti-anti-MHC antibodies in alloimmune and autoimmune mice. Science. 1991 Sep 6;253:1138-40.
“Alloimmune mice...were shown to make antibodies against gp120 and p24 of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), and mice of autoimmune strains...made antibodies against gp120. This is surprising because the mice were not exposed to HIV.
Ou CY et al. DNA amplification for direct detection of HIV-1 in DNA of peripheral blood mononuclear cells. Science. 1988 Jan 15;239(4837):295-7.
“Serologic assays identify persons with prior exposure to human immunodeficiency virus (HIV-1), they do not specifically determine current infection...The number of peripheral blood lymphocytes expressing viral RNA, as detected by in situ hybridization in an infected person is less than 1 in 10,000 cells...Defective provirus would be detected by the PCR technique provided the region targeted for amplification was preserved"
Cleary PD et al. Compulsory premarital screening for the human immunodeficiency virus: Technical and public health considerations. JAMA. 1987 Oct 2;258(13):1757-62.
“for HIV infection, there is no independent, unequivocal way of identifying a group of individuals who are all assuredly infected or uninfected”
Ward JW et al. Laboratory and epidemiologic evaluation of an enzyme immunoassay for antivodies to HTLV-III. JAMA. 1986 Jul 18;256(3):357-61.
“Evaluation of a new test requires an established or known standard for comparison. At this point, however, no established standard exists for identifying HTLV-III infection in asymptomatic people. Current culture methods for identify virus in only 36% to 85% of persons with AIDS or related conditions and cannot be used as an absolute standard for HTLV-III/LAV infection. For this reason, we defined specimens positive on Western blot or culture as positive for infection with HTLV-III”
Since you probably don't have a clue what they are talking about above, what they are saying is that since they have no standard to measure HTLV-III (HIV) against they are ASSUMING that a positive test means HIV infection.
Papadopulos-Eleopulos E et al. HIV antibodies: further questions and a plea for clarification. Curr Med Res Opin. 1997;13(10):627-34.
“The only way to obtain ‘specific reagents’ is to isolate the virus, that is, obtain viral particles separate from everything else. If this is not done it is impossible to say which reagents (proteins) originate from the virus and which are contaminants. Only then can the viral proteins be used as ‘specific reagents’ with which to perform antibody tests. Even then, because a given antigen can react with antibodies directed against other antigens (cross-reactions), the specificity of the reactions must be determined by using viral isolation as a gold standard. However, instead of using this procedure, the only one scientifically valid, Gallo and his colleagues cultured a leukaemic cell line (HT) with tissues with tissues derived from AIDS patients. Proteins derived from the culture supernatants (but without proof of origin from a retrovirus or even particles, viral or non-viral, or even from the patients), were incubated with sera from AIDS patients or those at risk.”
Hmm.... Cross reactions? Seems like I mentioned this to you several times, a process called serological cross reactivity. Oh, that's right I did mention this but of course this reality does not exist in your world, only the real world!!!
Also note that in the abstract that Gallo did not follow the proper procedure to prove cause. Gallo is the CDC scientist that got busted for scientific fraud for falsely claiming discovery of the HIV virus. Then he lied to the world by claiming that HIV caused AIDS embarrassing the US government again. So the government was forced to change the definition of AIDS in the early 80s to fit the HIV virus to cover up Gallo's lie. This is why the definition of AIDS was changed to include the drop in CD4s since this is the only thing HIV can do.
http://www.nature.com/jp/journal/v24/n12/full/7211184a.html
http://archfami.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/full/9/9/924
False-Positive and Indeterminate Human Immunodeficiency Virus Test Results in Pregnant Women
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_101203.html
http://aje.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/141/11/1089
The above article is about the cross reactivity caused by influenza vaccines, which have been shown to create antibodies that react positive on HIV tests. Other vaccines shown to cause positive HIV tests include polio, hepatitis, rabies, typhoid, malaria, etc.
http://www.omsj.org/wp-content/uploads/1023-FalsePositiveHIVTest.pdf
Report of a False-Positive HIV Test Result and the Potential Use of Additional Tests in Establishing HIV Serostatus
http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJM199409293311317
Tests for HIV in Lupus
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1004841/pdf/annrheumd00472-0059.pdf
False positive results for antibody to HIV in men with systemic lupus erythematosus
Lupus is not the only autoimmune disorder that has been shown to cause false positives with HIV antibody tests. The problem stems from the fact that during autoimmune reactions the body generates an abundance of low affinity (nonspecific) antibodies that can cross react on antigen test targets due to the non-specific nature. This is the same reason that these antibodies tag healthy tissue instead of the antigens they are supposed to target.
“At present, there is no recognized standard for establishing the presence or absence of antibodies to HIV-1 and HIV-2 in human blood.”
We, as readers of this forum, have the duty to express our taughts about what we may read in here. Nobody has to remain mouth wide shut.
It is pretty hard to shut your mouth when you have both feet shoved so far in it right now!!!
Here is another one for you:
http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CBUQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fciteseerx.ist.psu.edu%2Fviewdoc%2Fdownload%3Fdoi%3D10.1.1.68.3251%26rep%3Drep1%26type%3Dpdf&ei=ezBRTJnrKYaCsQOcgMUj&usg=AFQjCNGejHkxtxwWp9twFv11yf5wRPK0Lw
Published in: AIDS Care, 10 (2), 1998, 197–211. www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/09540121.html
© 1998 Taylor & Francis, 0954-0121.
AIDS Counselling for Low-Risk Clients
Among the reasons for false positives are the presence of cross-reacting antibodies (Stine, 1996); false positive reactions with non-specifi cally “sticky” IgM antibodies (Epstein, 1994, p. 56); false positives from samples placed in the wrong wells; and contamination of wells containing negative specimens by positive samples from adjacent wells. In addition, heat-treated, lipemic, and hemolyzed sera may cause false positives; false positive results have been reported to occur in 19% of haemophilia patients and in 13% of alcoholic patients with hepatitis (George & Schochetman, 1994, p. 69). People who have liver disease, have received a blood transfusion or gamma globulin within six weeks of the test, or have received vaccines for infl uenza and hepatitis B may test false positive, as well (Stine, 1996, p. 333).