{"id":11406,"date":"2016-06-03T15:09:36","date_gmt":"2016-06-03T15:09:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=11406"},"modified":"2023-05-05T10:26:21","modified_gmt":"2023-05-05T10:26:21","slug":"just-diagnosed-with-hiv-and-tb-and-my-cd4-count-is-125","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/11406","title":{"rendered":"Just diagnosed with HIV and TB and my CD4 count is 125&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for your question.<\/p>\n<p>How are you managing with this information? Although it is difficult to find out you re positive, it\u00a0is good you were in time to be able to benefit from treatment.<\/p>\n<p>The TB meds will probably be given first. They start to work quickly and you should be feeling better within a few weeks. It is essential that you continue taking the full course of TB meds.<\/p>\n<p>HIV meds &#8211; called ART &#8211; are usually started a couple of weeks later, These meds will enable you immune system &#8211; (ie your CD4 count) to also start to get stronger.<\/p>\n<p>The advantages of both meds are much more important than the small risk of side effects, which are usually easy to manage.<\/p>\n<p>Please talk to your doctor about any questions you have. Lost of other people have been in your situation so you are not on your own.<\/p>\n<p>The Treatment Action Campaign in SA is a source of lots of good information and support.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tac.org.za\">www.tac.org.za<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Further info<\/h2>\n<p>TB and HIV coinfection (from the i-Base training manual)<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/ttfa\/5-ois-and-coinfections\/7-tuberculosis-tb\/\">https:\/\/i-base.info\/ttfa\/5-ois-and-coinfections\/7-tuberculosis-tb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>UK (BHIVA) guidelines on HIV and TB coinfection.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bhiva.org\/TB-guidelines\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.bhiva.org\/TB-guidelines<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have just been diagnosed with HIV with CD4 count 125 and I have symptoms of TB.<\/p>\n<p>What is the worst that can happen when I start taking meds?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,9,28,29,49,39,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-cd4-and-viral-load","category-newly-diagnosed","category-opportunistic-infections","category-south-africa","category-starting-treatment","category-tb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11406","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=11406"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21775,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11406\/revisions\/21775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}