{"id":12502,"date":"2016-12-06T10:04:29","date_gmt":"2016-12-06T10:04:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=12502"},"modified":"2016-12-22T02:46:10","modified_gmt":"2016-12-22T02:46:10","slug":"why-is-my-cd4-stagnant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/12502","title":{"rendered":"Why has my CD4 count not increased?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks for getting in touch.<\/p>\n<p>Its great to hear you&#8217;re doing so well, and that your viral load is undetectable.<\/p>\n<p>Your CD4 count is pretty good &#8211; and is high enough to protect you against\u00a0most HIV-related worries.<\/p>\n<p>You started meds with a low CD4 count and have had a great response. This should continue steadily over at least the next few years.<\/p>\n<p>Because your CD4% increased, this means your immune system is still getting stronger. Whenever a CD4 result is different to the one you expected, the CD4% can show whether this is something to worry about. In your case it shows everything is very good.<\/p>\n<p>This answer has more information about the CD4%:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/20\">https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/20<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been on treatment for 5 months now.<br \/>\nMy cd4 count was initially 140 in june 2016 and increased to 270 in mid Sep 2016. VL was UD. CD4% 13<\/p>\n<p>The latest bloods in mid Nov show that my VL is still undetectable and the CD4 count is 268 and CD4% 15.<\/p>\n<p>Why has the CD4 improvement stagnated? I expected it be higher and am a bit worried now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,9,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-cd4-and-viral-load","category-newly-diagnosed"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12502","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\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12502\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}