Struggle with HIV: A Personal Experience of Bob Gerwig

Abstract

g) 1994-1998: Chronic and overlapping outbreaks of h. zoster (“shingles”) on my right forehead and scalp. I was on high doses of opiates: CD4 usually in the 150-250 range with dips of 3-6 months in the 50-150 range. CD8 is?, with ratios down to 8-6%. Shingles-affected area grew along nerve lines on the area from my right eyelid up along the right supra-orbital nerve under my right eyebrow where it turned upward from the top of my nose and along the right side of center to the “baby’s soft spot,” infected nerves around the right rim, and also branching off to the right along my right forehead hairline forming a large figure-C from my perspective running from the outer end of my right eyebrow to the nose and up to the hairline and right on the scalp to about the tip of my right ear (not infected).