Sheen seeks Mexican cure as HIV virus enters his blood
Charlie Sheen has admitted he is no longer taking his HIV medication and now has detectable traces of the HIV virus in his blood. According to BangShowBiz the 50-year-old actor admitted in a pre-taped segment for an appearance on The Dr Oz Show that he had stopped the treatment his own doctor had put him on and was seeking alternative treatment in Mexico, from Dr Sam Chachoua."I've been off my meds for about a week now," Sheen said in the interview. "Am I risking my life? Sure. So what? I was born dead. That part of it doesn't bother me at all."The site reports that Chachoua is working on an HIV vaccine and is so confident of his work that he injected some of Sheen's blood into himself."I said, 'Charlie, if I don't know what I'm doing, then we're both in trouble now aren't we'," Chachoua told Dr Oz.Said Sheen: "I didn't see it as Russian roulette - as a complete dismissal of the conventional course. I'm not recommending it to anyone. I'm presenting myself as a type of guinea pig."He then admitted he now had detectable traces of HIV in his blood. ..
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