{"id":11798,"date":"2016-08-05T23:29:19","date_gmt":"2016-08-05T23:29:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=11798"},"modified":"2016-08-10T22:49:31","modified_gmt":"2016-08-10T22:49:31","slug":"i-dont-believe-i-am-hiv-positive-but-if-i-am-i-want-to-start-treatment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/11798","title":{"rendered":"I don&#8217;t believe I am HIV positive &#8211; but if I am I want to start treatment?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for your post and I am sorry for the confusion at your hospital over the results.<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t talk about why you didn&#8217;t get a printouts of your results, but based on the other details in your email, it sounds like you are HIV positive.<\/p>\n<p>Even if you were worried about the first HIV test, the second viral load test shows that you are HIV positive.<\/p>\n<p>Please talk to your doctor about this &#8211; and about starting treatment.<\/p>\n<p>You didn&#8217;t say where you live but based on your CD4 count you should be able to start treatment you should be able to start treatment in all countries.<\/p>\n<p>Modern HIV treatment (also called ART) is very effective. This online guide has more information:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/starting\">https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/starting<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was diagnosed March 2016. I am still not on meds just because I am not sure I have HIV. I had am operation when I get tested for HIV for a really bad groin infection that i think affect my results. Later when the doctor said I am HIV I refused to believe just because they were so strange all the time saying different things and never say the same thing twice.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t trust them at all. I didn&#8217;t have any symptoms at all but the test shows I am positive. They did HIV DNA which is not for finding out that you&#8217;re HIV positive. All the time when I asked them to see my results they always said no. I wanted to have it printed and they just refused. How come ? I&#8217;m the HIV positive person and I don&#8217;t have my results?<\/p>\n<p>They said I have CD4 350 and VL 33 000. I&#8217;m really confused and I want to retest again. Also, If I am really HIV positive I want to start the treatment because the last months I&#8217;ve been thinking about it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,9,28,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-cd4-and-viral-load","category-newly-diagnosed","category-starting-treatment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11798","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=11798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11798\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}