Fwd: [HIV = NO AIDS] Fwd: Tales From The Trenches

[Guest guest]

This has the title of that book in it and some other info. Thanks, BethNote: forwarded message attached.

Small Business $15K Web Design Giveaway - Enter today

--

--------- Forwarded Message ---------

 

 

 

DATE: Sat, 27 Mar 2004 17:06:57

 

aidsisover

 

BulgeFinder

 

Cc: Attention: Opinions presented by members of this group are not necessarily a representation of "HIV Does Not Cause AIDS!" group mission or this group moderators.============================================ --------- End Forwarded Message --------- __________Find what you are looking for with the Lycos Yellow Pages.

 

A few thought provoking messages from among the many sent to Alive & Well:

 

Swiss Journalist Becomes AIDS Rethinker

 

Dear Alive & Well,

 

I tested HIV positive about14 years ago. In 1996, I started treatment, not

because I had the slightest disease or any symptoms, but because my

so-called viral load was at 135,000. I don't quite remember the combination

now, but it included AZT and two other drugs.

 

In March of 2001, I stopped the treatment and spent two years without

medicines. Then in spring of 2003, I had diarrhea that wouldn't stop and my

viral load results were close to a million. My doctor recommended that I

take up the chemotherapy again.

 

I started with Kaletra and Combivir and a few months later switched to

Stocrin and Combivir. For the first time since testing HIV positive, and

apart from the bout with diarrhea, I started feeling really bad and really

sick. The last few months I was on the drugs, things got worse and worse,

and the side effects became serious and obvious.

 

I decided for myself to quit the treatment again, and funnily enough, a

friend came to see me a few days later that happened to be reading ³What If

Everything You Thought You Knew About AIDS Was Wrong?² He left it behind for

me to read.

 

I would have quit the chemicals anyway, but in addition to my instinct and

feeling ill from the drugs, I now have matter-of-fact-reasons to know that

my decision is right.

 

As a journalist, I strongly believe that it is one of my duties to help make

this alternative approach to the subject of AIDS and HIV visible to the

public, by means of editorial coverage and investigation. I am the head of

Switzerland's most important private news radio station, and a member of the

executive committees of both the Swiss and the European Association of

Commercial Radio which represents 4.500 stations across the continent.

 

Have you ever thought about having the ³What IfŠ² book translated into

German? I would gladly offer my active support--I used to work as an

interpreter and translator before becoming a journalist.

 

Thank you,

 

Frederik S

 

[A few weeks after Frederick wrote, we got a message from another person

interested in producing a German translation of the book. He and Frederik

are now collaborating on the project. In further translation news, a Polish

version of the books is currently in the works thanks to another journalist

in that country.]

 

**

 

Life for Monte Keeps Getting Better

 

Dear Alive & Well,

 

A short note about my improved health since stopping the treatments. I

recently took a series of various tests and the results are all within a

normal healthy range for a person of my age. Keep in mind I am diagnosed

with AIDS according to CDC guidelines although I've never had symptom

besides a low T-cell count caused by protease inhibitors. This shows me the

importance of sound decisions about realistic health care and a connection

of mind, body, and spirit. Even my extensive back problems are much

improved, and without pills or the surgery I was supposed to need. I am also

off of all medicines for bipolar disorder and am seeing a psychotherapist to

unwind from the trauma of being an AIDS martyr and AIDS groupie.

 

To my surprise, when I explained my beliefs about HIV and AIDS to the

therapist, she not only understood, but agreed! That was such a comfort to

me. You know the challenges that one faces when opposing the mainstream

views. Now I do not have to lay a foundation for my decisions with her, and

we can move on to the issues of letting go of the AIDS world. I have also

met an incredible man, who is very supportive, and with whom I'm learning

simple joy again.

 

I use your documentary " The Other Side of AIDS " to introduce these new

concepts about AIDS to everyone in my life so they understand what I am

about. Note that I still cannot make it through parts of the film with dry

eyes, and I suppose I never will.

 

The point to this message is to show how effective your work has been.

Information can turn a life around, as it has mine. You and others like you

have saved my butt so to speak.

 

I now feel that I should offer my time, or whatever I can do, to complete

that exchange. There is no formal organization here in Austin dispelling the

myths and misinformation. I would like to let other people who " question

AIDS " know that there are more like them, and perhaps guide them to the

extensive information that has so affected my life. Any contacts you may

have in the Austin area, or surrounding areas would be most helpful. I am in

search of like-minded individuals for support and to offer support to.

 

Although this information can be so life affirming, it is always helpful to

have like-minded people to exchange ideas, as well as just for simple

friendship.

 

Thank you from the bottom of my heart,

 

Monte

 

[Any list members in or around the Austin Texas area can contact Monte by

email through Alive & Well]

 

**

 

One Year Off Drugs and Going Strong

 

Dear Alive & Well,

 

My doctor's office left a message on my voice mail this morning letting me

know it's been a year since I've come in. They wanted to know if I would

like to schedule an appointment. This is from a doctor who told me sternly

" You will NEVER be able to go off the drugs! " One year later, I feel great

off the drugs.

 

This doctor saw me every three months for four years while I was on the

drugs. He was always concerned because I had low T-cells, even though I was

never sick, but was never concerned about my slowly deforming body. " There's

nothing we can do about that, " he'd say.

 

It¹s amazing that he would wait a year before he noticed I had ditched him!

After all, " I can NEVER go off the drugs! "

 

M in Los Angeles

 

**

 

Alive and Grateful

 

Dear Alive & Well,

 

First I would like to thank you. Thank you from the bottom of my heart. If I

wouldn't have come across your book, I would probably never had taken the

initiative to actually think for myself, ask questions, and research.

 

I am writing to request the Health Practitioners Referral List. This would

be a great asset as I don't think I can go back to my current doctor.

 

Again, I want to thank you. I am just happy I'm healthy and that my doctor

hasn't wanted to put me on medication, because I probably would be on it

right now.

 

Gratefully,

 

D in Pennsylvania

 

**

 

10 Years in the Trenches

 

Dear Alive & Well,

 

I have a brother who was diagnosed HIV positive, then HIV negative. A third

test was inconclusive. When my brother was first diagnosed, a group of our

friends began getting positive tests, all in a span of five to six years. My

brother and I watched our friends go through AZT and the other drugs that

they were given, and we slowly watched each one die. One of them I actually

helped through the ordeal until his passing.

 

At the time, I told my brother not to take the drugs no matter what. Since

then, he has tried every route of treatment from the most severe Protease

Inhibitors to his current successful and unconventional self-health program.

 

My brother has been " sick " for over 10 years with so-called HIV infection

but in reality he has only been ill during the times he chose to take AIDS

medications. He lost his job due admitting his HIV status to an

unsympathetic employer, and as a result lost his home, and a relationship.

Although he has survived, it has not been an easy road.

 

I recently had a child. I am a healthy 39 year-old woman. I chose to have a

midwife deliver my child, but three weeks before my delivery she told me I

couldn't have a water birth because I refused an HIV test. There was no way

I would submit myself to the horrors I have seen my brother go through.

Although he has received a positive, a negative, and an inconclusive test,

he is branded for life as HIV positive and is unable to get health

insurance.

 

So from someone in the trenches, thank you for giving people information.

Thank you for being brave enough to challenge this AIDS theory that has cost

the world so many lives--and given so many others money, power, and

prestige.

 

Tracey F, Orange County, CA

 

**

 

Last Man Standing

 

Dear Alive & Well,

 

I tested HIV positive in 1984 and was one of the first people I knew to test

positive. All my friends tested negative, but within two years, almost all

their results changed to positive. At that time, nobody really knew much

about HIV and AIDS except that you would get sick within one or two years,

maybe three if you were lucky, and then you died fast.

 

My friends and I crossed into Mexico to buy the only drugs thought to

prolong your life back then--ribovirin and isoprinozine. But I decided not

to take the meds.

 

Years passed and I had a doctor convince me to take AZT. I became completely

exhausted, drained of all my energy. The doctor said that my body would

adjust to the medication in a few weeks and the tiredness would go away.

That was not the case. Instead, I became very depressed and even more tired,

so after a year I stopped the AZT. Almost immediately, I regained all my

energy. After that experience, I promised myself no more meds.

 

I wish that were the end of my story, however, 15 years after testing

positive, I started the combination therapies. My doctor said she thought my

T cells were getting low and that I should start. I did, and life was hell,

so I stopped.

 

My friends who tested HIV positive have all since died. I assumed like

everyone that HIV= death, but if that were the case, shouldn¹t I be dead as

well? The only correlation I know for sure is that my friends who died were

all drug users and did poppers. What distinguished me from them is that I

have never done recreational drugs and I rarely drink alcohol.

 

Even though I feel that quitting the meds was the right decision, there¹s so

much confusion in my head. Can you please help me with some information? I

need someone to talk to and who can answer my questions.

 

Thank you for allowing me to tell my story. I¹ve never told it before.

 

GC

 

**

 

Science Writer Sends Thanks and Shares Cancer Survival Story

 

Dear Alive & Well,

 

I write about the health and socioeconomic effects of technology plastics,

pesticides, genetic engineering, and nuclear radiation. I am a member of the

Genetic Engineering Committee of the Sierra Club and a technical advisor on

the health effects of plastics.

 

More than a year ago, I was given a copy of your book. It sat in a bookcase

until one day, about a month ago, when I began reading it. I would return to

it repeatedly and would open it randomly each time. I wish I had picked it

up a long time ago, as it would have explained a lot of the inconsistencies

that the media churns out.

 

I see a lot of my own feelings about technology confirmed in your book.

Thank you for taking the time to write it and for your persistence against

the machine's forces.

 

In 1983, I was diagnosed with cancer (melanoma) and given a month or so to

live. After examining the slides in the lab, I accepted the diagnosis and

went under the knife. Following that, I was subjected to a battery of tests,

every three months at first, then six months, and finally at one year

intervals. Each time, they shot me up with dies and radioisotopes and had me

empty my bowels with citrate of something-or-other. I'd get CAT scans and

X-rays galore. That all happened at Yale-New Haven Hospital.

 

Then we moved and I started going to the melanoma clinic at the University

of Chicago. The first time I went, several doctors felt all my lymph nodes

in detail and then told me I was fine and to schedule an appointment for

next year. I asked, " What about all the glow-in-the-dark tests, x-rays and

so on? " The response was that they didn't do them. They said they could

refer me to someplace that did, but they didn¹t advise that. After

questioning their reasoning, they told me that a paper was published several

years before showing that the tests I had been taking for more than 15 years

were not worth the trouble because they didn't find as much as human fingers

could, and that any negative results from the tests were deceiving. The

kicker came when I was told that the paper had been written at Yale, the

very institution where I had was subjected to all the tests!

 

I was a practicing architect for more than 20 years before switching to

writing. I believe that is when I actually started thinking for the first

time in my life. Before that, I hadn't had more than a fleeting thought

about what I had been indoctrinated to think.

 

Once again, thank you for your book and for your persistence.

 

Paul in Illinois

 

**

 

17 Years, No Meds, No Problems

 

Dear Alive & Well

 

I¹m just dropping a note to say that I'm still healthy and strong with no

meds ever for nearly 17 years now. I recently had my labs done as a

capitulation to the constant nagging from my medical doctors. Result:

Undetectable.

 

Best wishes,

 

Archie W in Los Angeles

 

**

 

Experience Tells Her Drugs, Not HIV, Cause AIDS

 

Dear Alive & Well,

 

I was diagnosed HIV positive in 1985. Through my experience, it is my

opinion that HIV is not the cause of AIDS. The cause is a combination of

many lifestyle choices such as an overload of toxins, mostly drug abuse over

time. I know this because I was once a heavy IV drug user and was in a

constant state of malnutrition as a result. I also exposed my body to a

plethora of pathogens through the use of needles and unprotected sex. This

all occurred a couple of years before AIDS existed.

 

The result of this life was many hospitalizations for pneumonia, hepatitis,

endocarditis and many other drug related sicknesses that are now attributed

to the virus.

 

I was on many different treatments starting in 1991 with AZT and Pentamadine

which almost killed me had I not gotten off. After being on the meds for two

years, I looked like a concentration camp survivor. In desperation, I prayed

to St. Jude. The message I got was to get off all drugs and change my life.

I went to an herbalist, got clean, quit smoking and started exercising and

became the healthiest I have ever been in my life during the eight years I

was clean.

 

Unfortunately, I relapsed two years ago and once again got strep pneumonia

after a two-year binge on heroin, alcohol and cigarettes. I was once again

told by the medical profession that I needed to be on the ³cocktail² because

I now had AIDS since my T-cells were under 200--even though they has been

under 200 since 1996. I took the drugs for two months while I was clean and

felt drained. After reading the possible side effects, I decided you should

not take immunosuppressive drugs for immuno-suppression.

 

I am now living in a halfway house in Florida where I had my blood tests

redone. Back in New Jersey, I had seen three different doctors who gave me

three different combinations of drugs. I chose one and took it for two

months against my better judgment, out of desperation, and wanting to

believe the so-called experts.

 

I am now drug free--AIDS drugs included. My T cells are 330, my viral load

is only 39,000 after 18 years of being positive, and in Florida I am now

told I don¹t have AIDS. In New Jersey, however, I had AIDS.

 

The whole AIDS philosophy is very disturbing as are the treatments. I feel

this story should be told by somebody that has some experience, strength and

hope to offer. Too many people are living " by the numbers " in a society

motivated by greed.

 

Thank you,

 

S in Florida

 

===

 

Until the next time, take care everyone,

 

Christine

 

--

Christine Maggiore, Founder/Director

Alive & Well AIDS Alternatives

http://www.aliveandwell.org

11684 Ventura Boulevard Studio City, CA 91604 USA

Tel 818/780-1875 National Toll-free 877/411-AIDS Fax 818/780-7093