question about ohl

[christo0917]

I am c


This discussion is related to Question from a doc.

[avonelle38]

You don't have HIV. No way, no how. It's time to let all of this go and move on.

[LIZZIE LOU]

your tests PROVE that its not hiv related

[christo0917]

Move on?  The consensus is that ohl is associated either with HIV or another form of immunosuppression such as patients on immunosuppressive drugs after organ transplants or leukemia.  Im not on immunosuppressive drugs and dont have leukemia so Im trying to make sense of the fact that I have OHL.  Not so easy to just move on.

[LIZZIE LOU]

kindly move on...you do not have hiv

[christo0917]

Sorry my comment got cut off.

My comment was that I was confused when the docs on here state that OHL has been around forever, long before HIV.   Multiple sources state that OHL was initially described in homosexual men with AIDS.  I think they are confusing OHL with dysplasia,  which has been around forever.  OHL has peculiar histological characteristics(ie viral changes, acanthosis)  coupled with the finding of Ebstein_Barr virus within the specimen.  Dysplasia refers to pre-malignant changes and has nothing to do with OHL.  I may be wrong but Id like the docs responce to this.  This distinction in important to me because Ive been diagnosed(biopsy proven) with OHL but my HIV tests are negative out to 5 months.