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Interview 25  

Interview 25

Age at Interview: 63
Sex: Male
Age at Diagnosis: 48
Background: A retired GP living with his partner of 9 years in London. He was diagnosed in 1990 after unprotected sex at a time when he assumed he was HIV positive.
Brief outline:He currently takes didanosine, ritonavir, lamivudine and saquinavir for HIV. He has suffered from non-painful peripheral neuropathy and some lipodystrophy. With treatment, he now looks forward to a long retirement.

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He finds his lipodystrophy hard to accept.

 



And I don't really have to modify my diet I think. It is uncomfortable sitting on hard seats for a long time because I've lost all my natural padding. My partner says that I had a nice bottom once but, but there you are... You can't have everything.

And how do you feel about that?

Well. I suppose again it's an unpleasant thing that I block. But I don't, I would like to… I'd like to look great, to be wonderful. Stunning. Handsome, I've never been, I've never felt that I was, though looking back at photographs of 30 years ago I, I would have fancied me! But, there we are, at the time you don't know.
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