well, within six weeks, all of my kaposi's sarcoma lesions had disappeared. and the lymphoma had gone into complete remission. of the 90 patients who received the drug, steve pieters was the only one to experience positive results, along with some unpleasant side effects. it was an extraordinarily toxic drug, and it blew out my adrenal glands. it caused major neuromuscular damage, wasting, peripheral neuropathy. it took me about a year to recover from the side effects of the drug. the other patients have all since died from the progression of aids. it was within the next year the drug azt was introduced. and it was a good drug. it still is. the problem, though, is that if we use one drug to treat the h.i.v. virus, it will absolutely learn how to live with that drug. it becomes resistant to the virus. in a biologic sense, the virus must stay alive. survival of the species, just in the same way that we have to stay alive. and if we give the drug that will kill the virus, the virus is going to have to learn to find a way to live with it, and it did. ronald mitsu