{"id":15522,"date":"2020-03-17T04:23:06","date_gmt":"2020-03-17T04:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=15522"},"modified":"2020-03-17T04:23:06","modified_gmt":"2020-03-17T04:23:06","slug":"is-a-viral-load-of-2200000-very-high","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/15522","title":{"rendered":"Is a viral load of 2,200,000 very high?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi there<\/p>\n<p>Generally, any viral load above 100,000 copies\/mL is high.<\/p>\n<p>If you are likely to have been HIV positive for a while, your CD4 count will also be low. This makes if important to start HIV treatment.<\/p>\n<p>If you are already on treatment, a viral load this high, definitely means you need to change your meds.<\/p>\n<p>However, if it is likely you only caught HIV a few weeks ago, viral load can often go this high and sometime even higher (sometimes over 20,000,000 copies\/mL).<\/p>\n<p>It is still imprtant to start treatment, but this should also help you know that other people get these results &#8211; ad that treatment will still work well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi, my viral load is 2,200,000 &#8211; that&#8217;s very high, right?<\/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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15522","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\/15522","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=15522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15522\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}