Thanks for getting in touch.<\/p>\n
From your results its clear that you’re doing very well. An increase\u00a0 in CD4 from 18 to 288 in a matter of months is amazing. In time this will rise even more.<\/p>\n
Your viral load is undetectable, so as long as you keep taking you HIV meds, you don’t need to take additional medicine.<\/p>\n
The cough and runny nose are not likely to be related to HIV. This might just be coincidence that you have a cold for example.<\/p>\n
It is good to look after other things in your life – i.e. reducing stress and having goals to be happy. Eating a balance diet is good, and keeping mentally and physically active is also good for the long term – plus not smoking.<\/p>\n
The HIV meds are all you needs for your CD4 count and viral load.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Hi i was diagnosed HIV positive in June 2017 when my CD4 count was 18.<\/p>\n
I live abroad and had TB and pneumonia one after the other and was in hospital. I started antivirals about a week later after my CD4 result came back.<\/p>\n
By October 2017, my viral load is 26 and my CD4 count is 288.<\/p>\n
My Thai doctor said to take my tablet at the same time everyday this. I have don’t this and drink coconut milk and eat pumpkin this I have done 3 times a week since being diagnosed.<\/p>\n
I still have a runny nose and my chest cough and I\u2019d like to know if there are other things I can do to increase my CD4 and reduce my viral load?<\/p>\n
Thanks <\/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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-cd4-and-viral-load"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13857","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=13857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13857\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}