{"id":113,"date":"2007-05-16T21:58:46","date_gmt":"2007-05-16T20:58:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i-base.info\/qa\/?p=113"},"modified":"2021-11-22T12:19:03","modified_gmt":"2021-11-22T12:19:03","slug":"my-cd4-count-is-568-can-i-increase-it-without-treatment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/113","title":{"rendered":"My CD4 count is 568. Can I increase it without treatment?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Your current CD4 count is very good.<\/p>\n

Avoiding stress, eating a balanced diet and taking exercise are three good lifestyle approaches that will help keep you in good health until you need treatment. Only stress has been linked in studies to CD4 count though, so this may be most important.<\/p>\n

Routine monitoring (every 4 months or so) and not worrying too much about the actual count each time will probably be fine for you for the next few years – perhaps longer.<\/p>\n

When you need treatment, HIV drugs are the only effective way to increase your CD4 count.<\/p>\n

Please see the answer to this question: What can you do to keep your CD4 count high?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Your current CD4 count is very good. Avoiding stress, eating a balanced diet and taking exercise are three good lifestyle approaches that will help keep you in good health until you need treatment. Only stress has been linked in studies …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,9,26,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-cd4-and-viral-load","category-living-with-hiv-long-term","category-starting-treatment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113","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=113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}