10. Muscle Aches and Joint Pain
Muscle aches and joint pain are more common in people with HIV. One study compared older and younger people with HIV to people without HIV by collecting self-reported information about current pain. The results show that older people living with HIV are more likely to experience pain, and, of those who reported experiencing pain in the past month, 50 percent had gone to a doctor about it, and about 14 percent had missed work.
Other findings show that people living with HIV who experience pain, regardless of age, also have more symptoms of depression, more significant impairment, and poorer quality of life.
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