{"id":12032,"date":"2016-09-14T20:24:08","date_gmt":"2016-09-14T20:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=12032"},"modified":"2016-09-14T20:24:08","modified_gmt":"2016-09-14T20:24:08","slug":"my-cd4-count-is-low-and-im-losing-weight-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/12032","title":{"rendered":"My CD4 count is low and I&#8217;m losing weight, why?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi,<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for getting in touch.<\/p>\n<p>Do you have much support for your recent diagnosis?<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s great you have started treatment (ART). ART\u00a0is very effective, even at low CD4 counts. As your immune system is still weak, it&#8217;s very important you see you doctor about your weight loss and lack of energy. You are risk of developing infections like TB or pneumonia and your doctor will need to look into this. Most people gain weight when starting treatment and can feel like they have more energy.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes when people start ART with low CD4 count they can also develop a condition called <a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/iris\">IRIS (Immune Reconstitution Inflammatory Syndrome)<\/a>. IRIS is when the immune system\u00a0reacts to\u00a0infections that is was previously too weak to respond to. Your doctor will be able to check for this and help to manage it if necessary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have recently been diagnosed as positive and my CD4 count is 24. I&#8217;m very weak and loosing weight. I have started treatment but am getting weak more everyday. What can  do to get energy to help myself cooking and going to work?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,9,28,29,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-cd4-and-viral-load","category-newly-diagnosed","category-opportunistic-infections","category-starting-treatment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12032","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=12032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12032\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}