The number of years you can live with symptoms of AIDS depends mainly on the treatment and the condition. If regular treatment is carried out and the person actively cooperates with the management, the life expectancy can be close to normal. If there is no standardized treatment, life expectancy will be shortened. 1. Close to normal: Although AIDS is an incurable disease, if it is detected early and after effective and regular anti-viral treatment, the life expectancy of some patients can be close to that of normal people. 2. Shortened life expectancy: If effective treatment is not carried out due to factors such as failure to take medication on time and inability to tolerate the side effects of medication, the progression of the disease will result in serious damage to the immune system or even loss of immune function, which will lead to a variety of opportunistic infections or malignant tumors. AIDS patients often die due to various complications, so the life expectancy when symptoms of AIDS appear varies from person to person. If you are diagnosed with AIDS, you should actively cooperate with your doctor and receive regular treatment, and the quality of your life can be close to normal.