{"id":11858,"date":"2016-08-20T13:38:47","date_gmt":"2016-08-20T13:38:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=11858"},"modified":"2016-08-20T13:38:47","modified_gmt":"2016-08-20T13:38:47","slug":"my-cd4-count-is-over-500-should-i-start-treatment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/11858","title":{"rendered":"My CD4 count is over 500, should I start treatment?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi there,<\/p>\n<p>How have you handled your recent diagnosis? Do you have someone supporting you?<\/p>\n<p>This guide may help<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/just-found-out\/\">https:\/\/i-base.info\/just-found-out\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Your CD4 T cell count is still strong (over 500) so it is definitely not too late to start treatment. Many people are now starting treatment above 500, but this is a personal choice.<\/p>\n<p>This question contains more information on starting over 500.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/8022\">https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/8022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Please let me know if you have more questions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I tested HIV positive today and I just found out that my CD 4  count is 501. Is it too late to start my treatment? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,28,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-newly-diagnosed","category-starting-treatment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11858","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\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11858\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}