His doctor, Huizenga, was also in the audience of “The Dr. Oz Show“, and reportedly told Sheen, “It would just break my heart if you did anything where you threw that opportunity… away and went back to where we were several decades ago”.
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In a recent television interview with Mehmet Oz, M.D., commonly known as Dr. Oz, actor Charlie Sheen revealed that he had stopped taking medication prescribed to treat his HIV and instead turned to alternative treatment in hopes of a cure. Sure. So what? Um, I was born dead. “And afterward, if what was being purported, if any piece of it was genuine, then I thought it was worth investigating”.
Sheen is seeking treatment from a physician named Dr. Sam Chachoua, whom Dr. Oz says is not licensed to practice medicine in the United States.
Charlie Sheen has admitted he is no longer taking his HIV medication and now has detectable traces of HIV in his blood. “He tried a cure from a doctor in Mexico but the minute the numbers went up, he started taking his medicine”, Burg told People.
The “Anger Management” actor told Dr. Oz on Tuesday the virus became more detectable in his blood after a month of experimenting with alternative treatments. In the show, he talked about how he wants to commit his life to searching for an HIV cure. HIV treatment involves a series of various medications for infections and retroviral drugs. “There are these reservoirs of HIV”. “Indeed by identifying people with HIV disease and providing them treatment, we can stop HIV transmission and end the HIV epidemic”. When the virus replicates, it causes bodily inflammation, he explains, which can lead to these complications and more. “Anger Management” star, said that it’s been around a week that he has not taken his medicines.
Sheen, 50, previously said his viral count was “undetectable” when he disclosed his illness in an interview with Matt Lauer on the Today show following weeks of tabloid speculative as to who the unidentified “A-list actor” living with HIV was.
But now the news is out, he says the revelation has proved helpful.
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“I didn’t see it as Russian Roulette”, Sheen added. “I do something different every day”, he said, while admitting he still smokes. I just got inquisitive about what I may feel like off this stuff. He said that his addictions can be one of the reasons to blame. “Doctors have to overcome this because we know that they are lifesaving”.
