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What Causes Weakness With Weight Loss?

hello my name is john 46yrs old 5ft10 and weaight 194 i have had hiv for 22yrs and have hep b,myopathy muscelwaisting,just found out that my testrone level is .2 and taking androgel for it. mycd4 is and has been for 11yrs 261 to 300 up and down. anyway I have avn of the knees and Ostoarthritis and need to have both knee replaced no DR here in Wv will help me Iam verry sick and cant eat i tell my doctors PMC and HIV about all of this and they seem like I have nothing to worrie about there is a lot more going on with me iam in severe pain and can hardly walk with no enegery becose not eating my viral load is less than 50 witch is good but I think that my meds should be changed or something they want me to go to a endineocoligist because my testrone is so low they think that mabe my endrocline system is not working properly iam on verry strong pain meds and they dont work anymore i juess because i have been on them so long I have other problems too just to much to say at one time. but something tells me that my hiv doctor not doing his job to help me he knows that iam loosing weight verry fast the only thing that i can keep down is ensure and its verry expinsive.what do you think i should do i getting weeker and weaker as days go by i feel like something is going verry wrong and they and me dont know what else to do what do you think about all that going on with me could be my fever keeps going up to100 and back to 98.6 then back up again theres alot going on with me that i dident talk about because i have said enough i would think i feel like i need to go to the hospital and see if they can get me better but my doctors think i will be fine iam verry worried and my mother is too iam in bed most of the time because of not eating and a lot more what do you think i should do leave this state and go back to baltimore and be seen at john Hopkins or what ?
Mon, 1 Dec 2014
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Hi John. Well, I think that you need not worry much as long as your CD4 is not less than 250 and your viral load is less than 50. Just see that you keep yourself busy with your work and keep talking to people around you. It is very much necessary to have a good working environment around you with a good social support in chronic illnesses. It is not advisable to remain in bed for the whole time.
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What Causes Weakness With Weight Loss?

Hi John. Well, I think that you need not worry much as long as your CD4 is not less than 250 and your viral load is less than 50. Just see that you keep yourself busy with your work and keep talking to people around you. It is very much necessary to have a good working environment around you with a good social support in chronic illnesses. It is not advisable to remain in bed for the whole time.