Question
How should I interpret my results?
22 August 2008. Related: All topics, CD4 and viral load.
I am 24 and have been recently diagnosed HIV-positive.
I got back my first baseline results and am due to go back for another next week.
My inital results were CD4 590 and viral load 309.
The consultant said that this might indicate that either my immune system was good and effectively finghting the virus or that I had been infected with a weak strain.
I want to know a bit more about how I should interpret these results and whether there are different HIV strains? Is that HIV 1 and HIV 2?
Answer
My interpretation is that your immune system is quite strong at the moment and this is great. It fights back the virus quite successfully. Usually, this is the case when a certain period of
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