You can live with HIV/AIDS for over 30 years only if you are following the doctor's instructions.
Skipping your ARV treatment is one of the biggest blunders you should never make.
By skipping the treatment, you are actually endangering the body. The repercussions that come with avoiding the ARV drugs are detrimental to a greater extent.
Here are the dangers of skipping your ARV treatment you just need to know.
This should be at the back of your mind. When you stop taking the medication, the HIV strain may become resistant to the drug.
Once the virus has become resistant to the drug, suppressing it can be a problem. This will favor the mass multiplication of the viruses.
From a biological point of view, HIV gradually razes the immune system by assailing and killing the CD4 cells, a type of white blood cells. HIV uses the machinery of CD4 cells to multiply and spread throughout the body
On the hand, the virus will impair the immune system and make your body to become vulnerable to various maladies which is risky.
Another negative complication associated with skipping the drug is, the virus will keep on proliferating to a point that it can not be suppressed. This could in turn cause death.