I WOULD ADVISE YOU DO NOT STOP YOUR MEDICATION.
IT MAY CREATE LONG TERM RESISTANCE ISSUES & WILL CAUSE ILL HEALTH.
IF YOU SO STOP. DO SO UNDER ADVICE FROM YOUR CONSULTANT TO REDUCE YOUR RISK OF LONG TERM RESISTANCE.
I doubt that stopping your medication will have any impact other than to your health & long term prognosis.
HIV is seen as a chronic condition. So long as treatment options are available for you. The state may take the view that your condition is treatable. Therefore your decision. Mental issues aside. To stop or not taking your medication is purely your choice. They may take the view that the State is provinding the support, medically that you need. To manage your condition.
However, unless you have no treatment options left. That is, you are resistant to all existing therapies & they cease to control your HIV. Where your prognosis is defined medically as "Terminal" with a short term life expectancy. This is clearly a different case. Different rules apply. Notify the Department for Work & Pensions.
Special rules still exist if you are terminally ill.
It is likely few with HIV would be in the situation.
If you are reading this and your prognosis is "Terminal". Please know you are in our thoughts.
The HIV medics are worried that people may stop their medication because of this. Stopping your medication is not likely to improve your chances with respect to any review you may be undergoing. It will merely put you, your loved ones & the NHS under pressure.
If the above is unclear. Please feel free to email me.
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