{"id":12876,"date":"2017-03-28T13:20:28","date_gmt":"2017-03-28T13:20:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=12876"},"modified":"2017-03-28T13:20:28","modified_gmt":"2017-03-28T13:20:28","slug":"im-not-on-meds-do-i-have-to-take-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/12876","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m not on meds, do I have to take them?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks for getting in touch.<\/p>\n<p>The World Health Organisation recommendations are, that everyone who is living with HIV should be on medication. This is even if you have a high CD4. Yours when diagnosed was high, however this is likely to have dropped.<\/p>\n<p>Taking pills can be for difficult. However, if you want to control your HIV you will need to take them.<\/p>\n<p>ARVs are for life, this is because as of yet there is no cure. For more info about ARVs, please see \u00a0here:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/starting\">https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/starting<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Because you&#8217;ve been feeling unwell, you should get your CD4 checked and your viral load.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi, I am in my early 20&#8217;s   I have been diagnosed with HIV for a long time now. <\/p>\n<p>My CD4 was 700 when I found out that I was positive and that  was three years back. I don&#8217;t take meds.  <\/p>\n<p>Lately I have been sick non stop. I cough until  I vomit. I smoke and drink alcohol, I think my immune system has drooped badly but I don;t  like taking pills. If I start taking ARVs now, will it be forever or  can I stop at some point?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,9,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-cd4-and-viral-load","category-starting-treatment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12876","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=12876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12876\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}