Survival Tips for PLWAs
- Seek out an experienced AIDS specialist
- Understand the big picture ... treatment, etc.
- Call your doctor by his/her first name
- Make friends with doctor's assistants
- Prepare for your doctor visits
- Help your doctor manage your case
- Buy the HIV drug book
- Learn to read your blood test results
- If standard treatments fail, look at others
- Carry a medical alert in your pocket
- Find benefits available to you and apply
- Get a jump on new infections
- Accept your fears.
- Eat healthy, exercise, minimize stress
- Tell someone you can trust
- Forgive the jerks In your life
- Prepare a budget
- Cry, Laugh, Love
- Believe in your treatment
- Commit to taking medicine on time
- Don't accept pain ... do something
- Eastern medicine Isn't the only winner
- Use a screw box to hold your pills
- Volunteer to help someone else
- Maintain as much control as you can
- Forget this list ... make your own
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