Meth Can't Catch A Break
Poor meth. It's just trying to keep it real, you know? Doin' its thing, trying to be the best cheapass, redneck drug it can be. And what happens? It's blamed for every little fucking thing that goes wrong. First, morons start blowing up labs. Whose fault is that? Why, it's meth's, of course. Then families fall apart and blah blah blah. Just because a woman can't keep her man satisfied, people go and say it's because of meth. Whatever. Now, dentists who can't do their jobs are blaming meth for fucking tooth decay? Please. What's next? Global warming? Just back the fuck off, bitches.
posted by Martha at 7:54 AM
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I hope these are not your own teeth but the picture of these intesly decayed or afflicted teeth do not appear as a result of hygene.
First and foremost the teeth appear canerous in certain sections.
Also the teeth can also devulge a symptom of AIDS or other Immune Dissorder.
There is no real difference between AIDS and HIV. People for the most part do not understand how these two words correlate.
A normal person (Not infected with HIV/AIDS) may have a T-Cell (A CD4 Cell) count of 800 to 1500.
Once the common man comes exposed to the so called HIV Virus that leads to AIDS his CD4 cell count will start dropping (As the virus replicates it batters the CD4 cells)
Although the following figures are simplistic and no exact they may give you a general idea how the words HIV and AIDS are appropiately used.
Lets say a person with a regular immune system get exposed to the HIV virus. Again for demonstrative puposes, his or her immune system may drop from 1000 CD4 cells to 900, then on the second year the CD4 cells may drop to 900, the 3rd year 800, the 4th yr 700 and so on.
As the immune system's CD4 cells get destroyed the virus multiplys and speeds up the destruction of the CD4 cells.
In this example as the person ages from day of exposure the HIV/AIDS virus multiplys. This virus is calculated and know as the "Viral Load" the greater the load the harder the virus tears up the Immune systems CD4 cells.
As the cells drop to 600, down to 500, 400, 300 you might notice nothing other than a cold that may occur more often or you may notice you tire easier and may chalk it up to the mere fact that your just getting older. When you start dropping below 300 CD4 cells you viral loads has now multiplied over the years and is way up there into the 10's of thousands of virus cells per teaspoon) (actually per ML or CC) A person can be loaded with the virus well into the 5th through 9th year never know they are ill and therefore pass it on to other unintentionally.
Notice I stopped counting CD4 cells at 300. The reason I did is because the scientific community came together and decided to rename the HIV virus AIDS once the CD4 count dropes to 200.
In theory a person with a CD4 cell count of 205 has HIV a person with a CD4 cell count of 200 has AIDS (Full Blown) So it is not that there are 2 different diseases, it is simply the same disease reclassified.
Take Cancer. It is logical for it is graded in stages. Stage 1 though I think stage 5, 5 being the worse. Why this is not or was not done with HIV/AIDS I don't understand.
One main reason is once the immune system drops to 200 the afflicted person starts noticing various unexplained health problems.
He or she may notice vaginal yeast infections, reoccuring ringworm (not a real worm but a fungus) moquito or flea bites that seem to take a long time to heal and when they do heal may leave a scar or lighter pigmentation of the skin long after the wond has healed.
Hence the reason I felt compelled to respond to the post or blot showing the teeth in the preceeding picture.
This is a symptom not only of a person with a severe hygene or malnourishment problem but a symptom of FULL BLOWN AIDS, i.e. their immune system is dropped below 200.
A common bacteria or disease that afflicts persons with immune systems below 200 is Candidiosis. or Candidia. (I may have one of the two words misspelled but I am close)
Candidia or Candidiosis is a yeast infection that as I said earlier can occur in the vagainal area. However it also occurs in the mouth and the esophegial area all the way down into the the stomach area. The worse your immune system gets the worse it travels.
It is a normal yeast or bacteria that is in all of our mouths and vaginia (females) that is kept in check by a heathly immune system.
When this yeast infection afflicts the oral area it may take more than 2 years to become a obvious problem.
I am sure most of you have herd the word "Thrush" White material and sores with white around their edges. A lot depends on how long your immune sysem can fight the HIV Virus. If it can't thrush can appear. If you have a good immune system to start with either by genetics or good heatly habits the yeast infection may drag on and on unoticed.
The first symptom a afflicted person might notice is there may be a little white at the base of your gums. Like you ate bread and not yet brushed your teeth.
You might also notice that there are a slit or crack in one or both sides of your mouth on the extreme right or left side or both.
What happens is when a person sleeps the candidial yeast infection seeps out of the mouthwhile one sleeps on their side or belly. The side they sleep on the most will be the side that developes this tiny slit. I use the word slit because it is hard to explain, more like you streched the left or right side of your lips and tore the end a tiny amount.
When you awake you may feel a crust like material built up in that area. A first it may not hurt and there may be little to no cut, slit or valey of open skin visable.
As time goes on both sides become a problem however they are of such little bother you may go on for more than a year just wondering what or why want those two little tears on the side of my mouth clear up.
As your immune system keeps dropping (CD4's likely 100 or less now) your teeth may start decaying LIKE THE PICTURE THAT PRECEEDS THIS REPLY (((((( HENCE THIS POST))))) however the black areas are not typical.
What happens is that this Candidial infection, we will call it yeast from this point onwards is very acidic. The acid and bacteria lay around the base of your teeth where they meet the gums and despite you may brush your teeth 10 times a day the damage is done at night as it seeps out of your throat (esophegious and stomach areas).
Before any decay occurs you may notice ( after brushing well) that there is a white line that developed right above the gumline where the teeth sit into the gums. It is hard to explain but it is almost like you have had teeth whitner applied only at the base of your teeth.
Most doctors that you may show this too including many dentist may have no idea or explanation as to what is going on.
They may do exrays and find none or few cavitys.
In reality the enalmal and bone of the teeth are being eaten into with the acid yeast and the bacteria just goes to town eating up the base of the teeth.
Before you know it people with the most heathiest teeth may suddenly notice one or more teeth start chipping off or decaying. The base of the teeth start getting destroyed.
If your unlucky enough to run into a doctor that recognizes the possible implications of HIV infection you may loose a 1/2 dozen teeth over the following year.
There is some good news with the bad.
Get your but to a HIV testing center. State Health clinics are more likely to recognize the problem and may start you on a yeast infection medication before you get the results for your HIV test.
If your lucky you want have HIV however they will need to do test to see why you have such infection.
If it turns out that you have HIV (They will not be able to tell you your CD4 count when they tell you if you are positive for exposure to the HIV virus) That test that typically measures the CD4 cells (your good soldiers) and the viral load ( the bad soldiers).
The HIV/ Viral load is a expensive test therefore they dont take it until your know to be positive.
You will be started on a medication well known to females as 'DIFLUCAN' or generic and most teeth damage will almost stop in its tracks.
Also the medications that they now have to treat AIDS/HIV infection typicaly start increasing your immune systems CD4 cells. After a given treatment period your immune system starts kicking back in and you no longer have to take the medicine for the Candial yeast infection. You body will simply start to fight it off by itself.
Assuming the picture in the prior post is that of a person afflicted with HIV/AIDS ands it seconday so called oportunistic infection with yeast said person could have had not one cavity had they simply had a HIV test before their immune system got so wipped out.
I have personaly met people with CD4 counts as low as 6 yes SIX CD4 cells per teaspoon of blood.
A person with under 100 CD4 cells can surcome to pnemonia, cancers and other infections. There is no reason with todays medicines to put off getting a HIV test.
Assuming the person in this picture fell into the category I decribe had he or she gone every 6 months to once a year to get a HIV test, he or she could have had their immune system monitored (usually on a quarterly basis) and the Doctor can start a person on Anti_Retrovirals (The medicines that keep the virus from mutiplying)
Once you start the Anti RetroVirals you can not (or should never stop) I have talked to people that have been HIV positive for 12 to 18 years and refused starting the medicine for they have no symptoms. As long as their CD4 cells don't drop to low and their viral load doesnt go to high it is ok for them to not initiate the medicine.
It is somewhat expensive. Most people take a combo of medications. One medicine targets hammering or detroying the virus 'before" it gets into your CD4 cell, the other medications target the viral load or virus after it makes it out of the CD4 cell.
A doctor will start you on this regimen. The average cost if about 1500 a month.
If your low income you can get all medicine for free. There are several programs Ryan White (The young lad that got AIDS from a drug transfusion [ He was a Hemophiliac (his blot didn't clot right}] As a result his family started a program that essentailly means no person shall go without medication for HIV/AIDS. 100% coverage.
Medicaid (The folks that care for the medical needs of the pepole on welfare (SSI) is the nest line.
(Until Jan 2006 they cover 100%) After Jan 2006 they will cover the same as Medicare covers.
Then their is the program for people that have a income. It is like a sliding scale.
Most people do not undertand that they dont have to be broke to get assistance.
Medicare, besides their Project AIDS program (They have a dozen different programs) Medicaid has a program called a "SHARE OF COST" In essence they calculate how much money you make then create a deductable amount. Once you exceed the deductable everything is covered 100%.
The calculation of the deductable is a bit confusing and I have herd that most people assume they have to pay a lot of their own money when in fact they seldome pay their own money.
As with most all government programs it is designed to confuse you and disuade you from applying.
The Moral of my reply is GET TESTED. Dont wait till something goes wrong. Catch the virus "BEFORE: it damages your immune system so bad that the least little illness could do you in.
If you get tested and your positive your going to feel like the end of the worlld is around the coner. On the contrary. The medications now days although expensive and their side effects can control further progrssion of the disease.
Another reason is that there are now strains of the virus that are not responding to drugs. You don't want to end up with that strain "after" t has done a lot of damage. Nic it in the but as soon as you can.
Get tested. There are too many pepole out there that "DONt WANT TO KNOW" simply because they figure there is no cure so why bother. On the contrary, once your diagnoses if you re positive they can almost halt the disease progrss in its tracks or at least make a dramatic slow down. Would you rather ride a turtle downhill to death or ride a freght train downhill till death. The choice is yours. The sad part is most of the general purblic is not aware that a wait and see attitude is the worst attitude.
1) you allow the disease to do more and more damage to your immunesystem as time progresses.
2) Not knowing allows some the attitude that they don't need to be safe in sex. Hence you-they end up unkowingly giving the virus to those that you love or spend a one nighter with.
3)The price of knowing far outweighs the price of not knowing.
Sex is not over if you are positive, you must however use protection and advise your potential partner that your infeced and allow them to make the choice of risk, not taking the test and not knowing the result is allowing you to make the decision if they get infected or not and you don't even know it.
Whatever you do don't end up with a mouth full or should I say lacking the teeth prortrayed in the preceeding photograph.
Good luck and GET TESTED THIS WEEK!
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First and foremost the teeth appear canerous in certain sections.
Also the teeth can also devulge a symptom of AIDS or other Immune Dissorder.
There is no real difference between AIDS and HIV. People for the most part do not understand how these two words correlate.
A normal person (Not infected with HIV/AIDS) may have a T-Cell (A CD4 Cell) count of 800 to 1500.
Once the common man comes exposed to the so called HIV Virus that leads to AIDS his CD4 cell count will start dropping (As the virus replicates it batters the CD4 cells)
Although the following figures are simplistic and no exact they may give you a general idea how the words HIV and AIDS are appropiately used.
Lets say a person with a regular immune system get exposed to the HIV virus. Again for demonstrative puposes, his or her immune system may drop from 1000 CD4 cells to 900, then on the second year the CD4 cells may drop to 900, the 3rd year 800, the 4th yr 700 and so on.
As the immune system's CD4 cells get destroyed the virus multiplys and speeds up the destruction of the CD4 cells.
In this example as the person ages from day of exposure the HIV/AIDS virus multiplys. This virus is calculated and know as the "Viral Load" the greater the load the harder the virus tears up the Immune systems CD4 cells.
As the cells drop to 600, down to 500, 400, 300 you might notice nothing other than a cold that may occur more often or you may notice you tire easier and may chalk it up to the mere fact that your just getting older. When you start dropping below 300 CD4 cells you viral loads has now multiplied over the years and is way up there into the 10's of thousands of virus cells per teaspoon) (actually per ML or CC) A person can be loaded with the virus well into the 5th through 9th year never know they are ill and therefore pass it on to other unintentionally.
Notice I stopped counting CD4 cells at 300. The reason I did is because the scientific community came together and decided to rename the HIV virus AIDS once the CD4 count dropes to 200.
In theory a person with a CD4 cell count of 205 has HIV a person with a CD4 cell count of 200 has AIDS (Full Blown) So it is not that there are 2 different diseases, it is simply the same disease reclassified.
Take Cancer. It is logical for it is graded in stages. Stage 1 though I think stage 5, 5 being the worse. Why this is not or was not done with HIV/AIDS I don't understand.
One main reason is once the immune system drops to 200 the afflicted person starts noticing various unexplained health problems.
He or she may notice vaginal yeast infections, reoccuring ringworm (not a real worm but a fungus) moquito or flea bites that seem to take a long time to heal and when they do heal may leave a scar or lighter pigmentation of the skin long after the wond has healed.
Hence the reason I felt compelled to respond to the post or blot showing the teeth in the preceeding picture.
This is a symptom not only of a person with a severe hygene or malnourishment problem but a symptom of FULL BLOWN AIDS, i.e. their immune system is dropped below 200.
A common bacteria or disease that afflicts persons with immune systems below 200 is Candidiosis. or Candidia. (I may have one of the two words misspelled but I am close)
Candidia or Candidiosis is a yeast infection that as I said earlier can occur in the vagainal area. However it also occurs in the mouth and the esophegial area all the way down into the the stomach area. The worse your immune system gets the worse it travels.
It is a normal yeast or bacteria that is in all of our mouths and vaginia (females) that is kept in check by a heathly immune system.
When this yeast infection afflicts the oral area it may take more than 2 years to become a obvious problem.
I am sure most of you have herd the word "Thrush" White material and sores with white around their edges. A lot depends on how long your immune sysem can fight the HIV Virus. If it can't thrush can appear. If you have a good immune system to start with either by genetics or good heatly habits the yeast infection may drag on and on unoticed.
The first symptom a afflicted person might notice is there may be a little white at the base of your gums. Like you ate bread and not yet brushed your teeth.
You might also notice that there are a slit or crack in one or both sides of your mouth on the extreme right or left side or both.
What happens is when a person sleeps the candidial yeast infection seeps out of the mouthwhile one sleeps on their side or belly. The side they sleep on the most will be the side that developes this tiny slit. I use the word slit because it is hard to explain, more like you streched the left or right side of your lips and tore the end a tiny amount.
When you awake you may feel a crust like material built up in that area. A first it may not hurt and there may be little to no cut, slit or valey of open skin visable.
As time goes on both sides become a problem however they are of such little bother you may go on for more than a year just wondering what or why want those two little tears on the side of my mouth clear up.
As your immune system keeps dropping (CD4's likely 100 or less now) your teeth may start decaying LIKE THE PICTURE THAT PRECEEDS THIS REPLY (((((( HENCE THIS POST))))) however the black areas are not typical.
What happens is that this Candidial infection, we will call it yeast from this point onwards is very acidic. The acid and bacteria lay around the base of your teeth where they meet the gums and despite you may brush your teeth 10 times a day the damage is done at night as it seeps out of your throat (esophegious and stomach areas).
Before any decay occurs you may notice ( after brushing well) that there is a white line that developed right above the gumline where the teeth sit into the gums. It is hard to explain but it is almost like you have had teeth whitner applied only at the base of your teeth.
Most doctors that you may show this too including many dentist may have no idea or explanation as to what is going on.
They may do exrays and find none or few cavitys.
In reality the enalmal and bone of the teeth are being eaten into with the acid yeast and the bacteria just goes to town eating up the base of the teeth.
Before you know it people with the most heathiest teeth may suddenly notice one or more teeth start chipping off or decaying. The base of the teeth start getting destroyed.
If your unlucky enough to run into a doctor that recognizes the possible implications of HIV infection you may loose a 1/2 dozen teeth over the following year.
There is some good news with the bad.
Get your but to a HIV testing center. State Health clinics are more likely to recognize the problem and may start you on a yeast infection medication before you get the results for your HIV test.
If your lucky you want have HIV however they will need to do test to see why you have such infection.
If it turns out that you have HIV (They will not be able to tell you your CD4 count when they tell you if you are positive for exposure to the HIV virus) That test that typically measures the CD4 cells (your good soldiers) and the viral load ( the bad soldiers).
The HIV/ Viral load is a expensive test therefore they dont take it until your know to be positive.
You will be started on a medication well known to females as 'DIFLUCAN' or generic and most teeth damage will almost stop in its tracks.
Also the medications that they now have to treat AIDS/HIV infection typicaly start increasing your immune systems CD4 cells. After a given treatment period your immune system starts kicking back in and you no longer have to take the medicine for the Candial yeast infection. You body will simply start to fight it off by itself.
Assuming the picture in the prior post is that of a person afflicted with HIV/AIDS ands it seconday so called oportunistic infection with yeast said person could have had not one cavity had they simply had a HIV test before their immune system got so wipped out.
I have personaly met people with CD4 counts as low as 6 yes SIX CD4 cells per teaspoon of blood.
A person with under 100 CD4 cells can surcome to pnemonia, cancers and other infections. There is no reason with todays medicines to put off getting a HIV test.
Assuming the person in this picture fell into the category I decribe had he or she gone every 6 months to once a year to get a HIV test, he or she could have had their immune system monitored (usually on a quarterly basis) and the Doctor can start a person on Anti_Retrovirals (The medicines that keep the virus from mutiplying)
Once you start the Anti RetroVirals you can not (or should never stop) I have talked to people that have been HIV positive for 12 to 18 years and refused starting the medicine for they have no symptoms. As long as their CD4 cells don't drop to low and their viral load doesnt go to high it is ok for them to not initiate the medicine.
It is somewhat expensive. Most people take a combo of medications. One medicine targets hammering or detroying the virus 'before" it gets into your CD4 cell, the other medications target the viral load or virus after it makes it out of the CD4 cell.
A doctor will start you on this regimen. The average cost if about 1500 a month.
If your low income you can get all medicine for free. There are several programs Ryan White (The young lad that got AIDS from a drug transfusion [ He was a Hemophiliac (his blot didn't clot right}] As a result his family started a program that essentailly means no person shall go without medication for HIV/AIDS. 100% coverage.
Medicaid (The folks that care for the medical needs of the pepole on welfare (SSI) is the nest line.
(Until Jan 2006 they cover 100%) After Jan 2006 they will cover the same as Medicare covers.
Then their is the program for people that have a income. It is like a sliding scale.
Most people do not undertand that they dont have to be broke to get assistance.
Medicare, besides their Project AIDS program (They have a dozen different programs) Medicaid has a program called a "SHARE OF COST" In essence they calculate how much money you make then create a deductable amount. Once you exceed the deductable everything is covered 100%.
The calculation of the deductable is a bit confusing and I have herd that most people assume they have to pay a lot of their own money when in fact they seldome pay their own money.
As with most all government programs it is designed to confuse you and disuade you from applying.
The Moral of my reply is GET TESTED. Dont wait till something goes wrong. Catch the virus "BEFORE: it damages your immune system so bad that the least little illness could do you in.
If you get tested and your positive your going to feel like the end of the worlld is around the coner. On the contrary. The medications now days although expensive and their side effects can control further progrssion of the disease.
Another reason is that there are now strains of the virus that are not responding to drugs. You don't want to end up with that strain "after" t has done a lot of damage. Nic it in the but as soon as you can.
Get tested. There are too many pepole out there that "DONt WANT TO KNOW" simply because they figure there is no cure so why bother. On the contrary, once your diagnoses if you re positive they can almost halt the disease progrss in its tracks or at least make a dramatic slow down. Would you rather ride a turtle downhill to death or ride a freght train downhill till death. The choice is yours. The sad part is most of the general purblic is not aware that a wait and see attitude is the worst attitude.
1) you allow the disease to do more and more damage to your immunesystem as time progresses.
2) Not knowing allows some the attitude that they don't need to be safe in sex. Hence you-they end up unkowingly giving the virus to those that you love or spend a one nighter with.
3)The price of knowing far outweighs the price of not knowing.
Sex is not over if you are positive, you must however use protection and advise your potential partner that your infeced and allow them to make the choice of risk, not taking the test and not knowing the result is allowing you to make the decision if they get infected or not and you don't even know it.
Whatever you do don't end up with a mouth full or should I say lacking the teeth prortrayed in the preceeding photograph.
Good luck and GET TESTED THIS WEEK!
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: 7:33 PM, August 01, 2005
: 7:33 PM, August 01, 2005
