{"id":10261,"date":"2014-09-25T08:33:39","date_gmt":"2014-09-25T08:33:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=10261"},"modified":"2015-05-07T11:26:28","modified_gmt":"2015-05-07T11:26:28","slug":"my-husband-started-meds-with-a-cd4-count-of-4-what-about-his-liver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/10261","title":{"rendered":"My husband started meds with a CD4 count of 4? What about his liver?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for your questions &#8211; your husband is lucky to have you finding out about his health.<\/p>\n<p>Guidelines recommend starting treatment much earlier when the CD4 count is about 350 or higher. However, if you don&#8217;t find out until your CD4 count is already much lower, there are still a really good chance he will be ok.<\/p>\n<p>I know many people who started treatment when their CD4 count less than 10. Then have been leading full and active lives for the last 10-15 years. And meds today are even better than they were back then.<\/p>\n<p>Because his CD4 count was below 50 it is important to be monitored very carefully until it gets above 50 and then above 100. <a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/10253\">See this post for detail about something called IRIS<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If he has been okay for the last two months, then his CD4 count is already likely to be increasing.<\/p>\n<p>Ilvitrim is a dual antibiotic that is also called co-trimoxazole. <a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/9211\">See this question for more information<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Your husband should have routine monitoring to check his liver is okay. Occasionally there are problems when meds need to be changed. The main concern over the liver is when someone also has hepatitis B or C.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My husband&#8217;s CD count is 4 and he started on ARV two months ago.<\/p>\n<p>My concern is whether it is too late for him or does he still have a chance to survive. He is also taking two ilvitrim tablets in the morning and at night and vitamin tablets in the morning.<\/p>\n<p>Will these tablets damage his liver?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,9,24,38,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-cd4-and-viral-load","category-life-expectancy","category-side-effects","category-starting-treatment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10261","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=10261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10261\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}