{"id":4845,"date":"2025-01-01T12:00:20","date_gmt":"2025-01-01T12:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/?page_id=4845"},"modified":"2025-01-15T12:11:33","modified_gmt":"2025-01-15T12:11:33","slug":"what-to-do","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/changing\/what-to-do","title":{"rendered":"What if your viral load rebounds?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: 18px; line-height: 29px;\"><b><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-15453\" src=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/ChangingJan2025COVER.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"144\" height=\"201\" \/><\/strong>Get a second test&#8230;<\/b><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>A low-level rebound might only be a<strong> lab or test error.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It might just be a small <strong>blip<\/strong> that goes back down again.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>This is why it is important to repeat the viral load test.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Take second test straight away, when you get the first result.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Don\u2019t just wait for weeks or months until your next routine test.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If the second test is still detectable this is a \u201cconfirmed viral rebound\u201d.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>lab errors: <\/b>viral load tests do not give exact results at low levels. Both 40 and 60 could come from the same sample. The lab can make a mistake with your sample. It might belong to somebody else!<\/li>\n<li><b>blips: <\/b>this is when viral load increases above 50 copies\/mL but returns to undetectable again by itself.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Get a second test&#8230; A low-level rebound might only be a lab or test error.\u00a0 It might just be a small blip that goes back down again. This is why it is important to repeat the viral load test. Take &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":10,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-guides.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4845","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4845"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4845\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18391,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4845\/revisions\/18391"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}