{"id":10145,"date":"2014-09-11T15:48:09","date_gmt":"2014-09-11T15:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=10145"},"modified":"2014-10-12T10:18:19","modified_gmt":"2014-10-12T10:18:19","slug":"my-cd4-is-still-under-200-after-a-month-is-this-okay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/10145","title":{"rendered":"My CD4 is still under 200 after a month &#8211; is this okay?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for your question.<\/p>\n<p>To be able to comment on your response to treatment though, I really need to know what your CD4 count and viral load were before you started treatment.<\/p>\n<p>If your doctor is happy with the results, then everything is likely to be fine.<\/p>\n<p>There is no need to be worried about your CD4 count.<\/p>\n<p>Whatever it was before you started treatment, getting to around 200 means you are in the clear for most HIV-related complications. CD4 counts usually take a few months to increase and a slow and steady increase is actually likely to be better than one that increases very quickly.<\/p>\n<p>However, as your viral load is still very high, it would be interesting to know how much this has dropped.<\/p>\n<p>Viral load should usually decrease by at least &#8220;one log&#8221; after a month. ( a &#8220;log&#8221; is like knocking a zero off the number). This would mean that your pre-treatment levels would have to have been higher than 2 million copies\/mL for a log drop to mean it is now about 200,000.<\/p>\n<p>If you pre-treatment viral load was lower than 2 million, then your doctor should check that you are taking the meds in the right way. For <a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/8841\">Stribild, this includes taking them with a meal <\/a>that (probably) needs to include some fat. Your doctor should also check you are not missing doses &#8211; and that if you take a multivitamin, this is separated by at least four hours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was just diagnosed with HIV 30 days ago and my doctor started me on Striblid. <\/p>\n<p>I just went back for a follow up after 30 days and my CD4 count was 195 and my viral load was 210,000. She was very happy with my results and that the medicine was working. <\/p>\n<p>Do I have anything to worry about since my cd4 count is below 200?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,28,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-newly-diagnosed","category-starting-treatment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10145\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}