{"id":15022,"date":"2019-03-08T13:44:30","date_gmt":"2019-03-08T13:44:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=15022"},"modified":"2019-03-08T13:44:30","modified_gmt":"2019-03-08T13:44:30","slug":"ive-been-positive-for-7-years-should-i-start-medication","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/15022","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;ve been positive for 7 years, should I start medication?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks for getting in touch.<\/p>\n<p>Though you may be feeling well, you still have HIV. If you want to control your HIV you&#8217;ll need to be on medication. So yes, starting medication is the right thing to do. Please see here: <a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/starting\">https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/starting<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve not had a CD4 count test done since 2012, you&#8217;ll need to have one done. Though you&#8217;ve not been sick its very likely that it will have dropped. However, as to how much its not possible to say.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I tested positive in 2012 with my CD 4 count being about 800&#8230;..i am not on antiretroviral drugs yet and i haven&#8217;t fallen sick for a day&#8230;.can i start ARVs<\/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-15022","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\/15022","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=15022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15022\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}