{"id":10406,"date":"2015-03-01T07:32:29","date_gmt":"2015-03-01T07:32:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=10406"},"modified":"2015-05-07T11:26:12","modified_gmt":"2015-05-07T11:26:12","slug":"should-i-worry-about-iris-if-i-started-viraday-when-my-cd4-was-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/10406","title":{"rendered":"Should I worry about IRIS if I started Viraday when my CD4 was 10?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for your questions.<\/p>\n<p>First, it is good you are now on treatment. You very have been lucky if you have\u00a0not had symptoms\u00a0with such a low CD4 count.<\/p>\n<p>Your CD4 count is already likely to be higher, but for most people this will be a slow and steady increase. On average, it might take a years for your CD4 count to increase to 100 and another year to reach 200.<\/p>\n<p>Some people get larger increases and for some people it might take more time.<\/p>\n<p>If IRIS is going to happen, it is usually in the first few weeks or months after starting treatment. This make it very important to talk to your doctor about any new symptoms. Your doctor needs to decide whether new symptoms are side effects or symptoms of IRIS.<\/p>\n<p>IRIS stand for Immune Reconstitution Inflammatory Syndrome. IRIS occurs to about 1 in 4 people starting with a CD4 count under 50. The related infections can include TB and CMV. It is important that your doctor checks your eyes for CMV, especially if you have noticed any chances in your eyesight or vision.<\/p>\n<p>Viraday is a generic version of <a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/1561\">Atripla<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Your viral load is very low for such a low CD4 count. Did you really mean 414 or 414,000?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello there<\/p>\n<p>I found out I was HIV positive in January 2015. My viral load was 414,000 and my CD4 was 10. I am not having any symptoms nothing except the skin rash.<\/p>\n<p>I started my HIV medicine (Viraday) a week ago and i felt the side effects. Am I now in any danger ?<\/p>\n<p>My doctors said that I am not, and\u00a0that everything is\u00a0good thing and it just needs time.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve read all the questions above but still i wanted to ask how much does it take to increase my CD4 and about the IRIS. If IRIS is gonna happen, after how long from starting the medicine does it come?<\/p>\n<p>Thank you a lot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,9,29,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-cd4-and-viral-load","category-opportunistic-infections","category-starting-treatment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10406","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=10406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10406\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}