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Prior was Alive Six years later??? On only AZT?!?

posted 10 years ago by ebettman-1
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I'm in the Medical Profession. As HE would have said "Oh PullEEZ!" AZT alone did Limited Good, and in large doses, Harm. See "Buyer's Club" to see what I'm talking about. AZT only works together with other classes of antiretroviral meds. FOUR year survival-with full blown AIDS-not talking HIV+ here-was exceedingly Rare.

[–] WendellE 10 years ago

FOUR year survival-with full blown AIDS-not talking HIV+ here-was exceedingly Rare.

Exceedingly rare isn't the same thing as impossible. And remember, he does say to the angels "Bless me anyway. I want more life". The stage direction in the play says "The angels, unseen by him, make a mystical sign", apparently giving him what he asked for. In the film, he does see the angel played by Emma Thompson (the others have disappeared) make a sign. So he had a bit more going for him that just the AZT.

Actually, though Prior says he's been living with AIDS for five (not six) years, it's actually four years, four months from the opening scene (Oct. 1985) to the final one (Feb. 1990).

[–] willjohn 9 years ago

It is now 2015 and there are people still alive who acquired HIV in the 1980s and developed AIDS.

One of the mysteries of medicine.

[–] ebettman-1 9 years ago

With Full BLOWN AIDS??

I doubt that-unless they went on HAART in 1996 when it came out.

[–] northernlad 9 years ago

No one says "full blown AIDS" anymore. It's just AIDS.

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[–] LaurieMann 9 years ago

While you're right that most people who had full-blown AIDS in the '80s died from it, it's possible a few people survived. There are people with types of cancers who often lived much longer than expected. And look at Stephen Hawking...

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[–] theunopeneddoor-697-442391 9 years ago

http://www.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/07/23/30.years.hiv/--Someone who caught AIDS in the 1980s and was still alive in 2010.

http://forums.poz.com/index.php?topic=52871.0--22 years, full blown AIDS.

BTW having a person VERY close to me with HIV, the term "full blow AIDS" really isn't used anymore. It's based on your T cell count. Someone can live a long time with AIDS. In the 1980s it was rare, but not unheard of to live a while with it.

BTW it was FOUR years that he had "full blown" AIDS (using your term).

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[–] northernlad 9 years ago

Believe it or not, there are people that DID survive it on AZT.

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