{"id":139,"date":"2007-07-18T22:02:12","date_gmt":"2007-07-18T21:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i-base.info\/qa\/?p=139"},"modified":"2021-11-22T12:19:01","modified_gmt":"2021-11-22T12:19:01","slug":"what-is-the-importance-of-a-high-viral-load-with-a-high-cd4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/139","title":{"rendered":"What is the importance of a high viral load with a high CD4?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for your question.<\/p>\n<p>First, I&#8217;d need to know what your viral load results are. The figure is important because the terms &#8216;high&#8217; and &#8216;low&#8217; often mean different things to different people.<\/p>\n<p>Usually, a &#8216;high&#8217; viral load is over 100,000 copies\/mL.<\/p>\n<p>Because you were only recently infected your immune system (which is strong because your CD4 count is over 500 cells\/mm3) may still bring your viral load down without treatment, to a lower level.<\/p>\n<p>If your viral load stays high, this is likely to mean that your CD4 count will drop a bit more quickly than average. A high viral load is an independent risk for HIV progression, so in discussion with your doctor, you may want to consider using treatment a bit earlier.<\/p>\n<p>This still wouldn&#8217;t normally be recommended while your CD4 count is over 500 cells\/mm3 unless you have any symptoms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was infected with HIV 10 months ago.<\/p>\n<p>My CD4 count is stable at around 750. However my viral load is still extremely high.<\/p>\n<p>What does that mean and what could be the consequences?<\/p>\n<p>Thanks<\/p>\n<p>English is not my mother language, for online purpose you may rephrase my question.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,9,26,28,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-cd4-and-viral-load","category-living-with-hiv-long-term","category-newly-diagnosed","category-starting-treatment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}