BellaOnline Forums Health and Fitness AIDS & HIV It's in the bag

While HIV med regimens have grown less complicated, with fewer pills and doses, taking them faithfully remains critical.
To make it trickier many positive people take drugs for other conditions as well.
A new plastic bag system called onePAC might make adherence easier.
It lets pharmacists pack all your meds-including vitamins and supplements in clearly labeled bags.
One foe each dosing time.
Many drugstores already offer onePAC, most at no additional charge.

This is cool, Rosie. I'm going to have to investigate!

Does anybody know how to get the doctors to treat you with respect instead of abuse because you have infectious dieases?I need pain medication and doctors only want to bill your insurance and tell you that they do not prescribe.

Do you take pain medication also?

Corral, my daughter has been HIV for over 20yrs, She is in alot of pain right now because of kidney problems, no they won't prescribe pain meds for her. (she is also a drug addict)
As far as doctors treating you with respect there are many out there that do, but also some that don't. I once got stuck with my daughters needle that she shoots heroin with. I went right to the ER room they put me on medication that HIV people take. I was on it a days but got very sick so the doctor took me off I was tested and came back neg. I did not contract the disease. But to get back to your question about doctors and respect, last year i got a very bad eye infection from make up. I went to the same ER room the nurse was very nice we were joking laughing etc. then she looked at my records and saw i was prescribed that HIV medication. Her whole attitude towards me changed, the laughing stopped, and she said distastefully YOUR HIV. I never felt so discriminated against. she looked at me with discuss. So i am well aware of disrespectful professional people. Its ashame in this day and age people still get treated like that. I wish you luck in finding a good doctor they are out there Good luck