Immunity

Source : Wikipedia

Funny thing this immunity..... I had been regularly getting sinusitis for a long time (partly due to smoking), so when I had a bad bout of sinusitis turning into a bad cold that lasted for weeks, I didn't think much of it. It wasn't when my partner was diagnosed with HIV exactly a year ago that I realised that I may have HIV.

My CD4 reading was still above the threshold so the doctors told me that I didn't need to start with HAART or ARV yet. But I was also warned that the CD4 reading will continue to decline until a point I needed HAART if I wanted to survive. My sinusitis/ colds continued pretty much on a monthly basis then.

Thus a long year of reading up on the body's immune system and how we can improve it. Lots of food, drinks, supplements all claimed to improve a body's immunity but they just didn't seem to click with me. I was also surprised to find out that a lot of other diseases were related to the immune system (or lack of) including diabetes (yes, that stumped me at first!), cancer (who knew?), rheumatoid arthritis (double take here), and a whole bunch more.

Keeping Healthy

By pure dumb luck, I met this guy who was telling me about his wonder herbal
extract that is helping many people control their diabetes/ blood sugar level. In fact, this person had told me about it even before I was diagnosed but it never clicked as my blood sugar was normal. As I connected diabetes with immune system problem, I started to wonder if it would help me.

I have been on it for past 5 months (though I need more discipline taking it!) and it has shown some results. But I will reserve judgement until I take the next test due in April.

Wish me luck!