Hi<\/p>\n
Thanks for your questions.<\/p>\n
First, it is really good that you were diagnosed and are now on treatment. Otherwise you would have been at even more serious problems – so you were caught in time.<\/p>\n
Secondly, your very low CD4 count meant your immune system was too weak to recognise these new health problems.<\/p>\n
Now you are on treatment, your immune system is getting stronger the underlying infections are starting to show again. This is a common response to late treatment.<\/p>\n
It is good that your doctors are treating everything, but as your CD4 count gets steadily higher, your body will start to to fight these infections yourself.<\/p>\n
For example, a higher CD4 count will stop the white patches on your tongue.<\/p>\n
Your treatment will be working and the CD4 and viral load tests in a few months will show this.<\/p>\n
Although these tests would be earlier in the UK (after one month), I know some countries only do this after six months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I was diagnosed HIV positive 3 months ago with a CD4 count of 55. It’s been 11 weeks on Trivenz ARV and Pubac (cotimoxazole) antibiotics. I am experiencing warts in my private area, mouth ulcers and I think my tongue has hairy white patches. I have been to the dr and he gave me 3 pills of fluconazole, and I’ve been to a dentist.<\/p>\n
I’m using mouth wash, I have also been to a gynecologist for the private part warts he gave me antibiotics and creams. My worry is that I didn’t have all these things when I started treatment and now I’m experiencing these problems.<\/p>\n
Is my treatment working? I’m only due to test for viral load and cd4 count in another 3 months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,9,28,29,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-cd4-and-viral-load","category-newly-diagnosed","category-opportunistic-infections","category-side-effects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16016","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=16016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16016\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}