Question
Is my CD4 count and viral load within the normal ranges?
12 October 2010. Related: All topics, CD4 and viral load.
I am currently on treatment my latest result were: viral load 29 and CD4 count 431 is this within accepteble ranges?
Answer
Thank you for your question.
Your results are very good. Once you are on treatment the most important thing to monitor is your viral load which should, wherever possible, remain under 50 copies/mL. Some people get the occassional ‘blip’ where the viral load goes up a little bit and then down again. This is nothing to worry about. Your viral load of 29 is very good.
Which treatments are you on? Have you experienced any side effects? When did you start treatment?
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I did my first CD4 Nov 2016 and it was 467,Feb 2017 I did d second one nd it was 669.i just did my first viral load June 2017 nd it was 54.is it possible to have unprotected sex with my partner without him contacting d virus?
Hi Ti,
The following are infant feeding guidelines from the World Health Organisation. The explain all that you need to know with regards to feeding options for babies when a mother is positive:
http://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/10665/246260/1/9789241549707-eng.pdf?ua=1
Hi have been on treatment for 6years now.my cd4 count is 436 and my viral load is 20 copies can i breastfeed am currently pregnant.
Hi Kathryne,
Its common to feel like this when you’ve just been diagnosed. What you need to do is slow down. You’re going to be OK. Your CD4 is good and your on meds. What this means is that you’re in control of your HIV. Though it may not seem like you are, you are.
HIV isn’t like it used to be, its now a very manageable health condition. So much so that if you choose to have children then you’ll be able to have children. Your life expectancy is also similar to what it would have been had you not have contracted HIV.
Talking to other who are positive may help. Is there a support group near to where you live?
Hi.
Am Ketty, am 22 yrs from Kenya, tested hiv + on 6september this year. Am now on meds, my cd4count is 438 am yet to know my viral load.
Am so scared at this point of my life, am all alone I don’t know how to deal with this really, the people I talk to seems to be used to these cases to a pont they never take some seriously. I don’t have a job and since I started my meds, I haven’t been able to leave the house I feel so weak and depressed,am adhering to my meds but I see like am gonna die tomorrow, I don’t understand my life anymore
I real like to thank this web it helps me a lot im now feeling better
Hi Martha,
To have an undetectable viral load your viral load needs to be less than 50 copies. Yours is nearly there.
Is viral load of 64 undectable
Hi Muskan,
I’m not sure what you mean by viral loads 3lac.
If you’ve been on meds for 3 months and your CD4 is now 350, what was it before? When are you due to have your viral load tested?
Good knowledge. If cd4 are 350 viral load 3lac in third month of HAART injection treatment. Is treatment successful. Doctor cannot take my viral load before treatment.