{"id":16189,"date":"2020-09-28T15:48:36","date_gmt":"2020-09-28T15:48:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=16189"},"modified":"2020-09-28T15:48:36","modified_gmt":"2020-09-28T15:48:36","slug":"my-cd4-is-280-will-it-get-any-higher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/16189","title":{"rendered":"My CD4 is 280, will it get any higher?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks for getting in touch.<\/p>\n<p>What your consultant is telling you is right, as long as your viral load is undetectable, you&#8217;re doing really well. Your HIV is under control.<\/p>\n<p>With regards to your CD4, it&#8217;s not possible to predict how long it will take for a persons CD4 count to rise to normal levels, or even if it will. Some people who are diagnosed with a CD4 in single figures see their CD4 rise to normal levels, whereas others don&#8217;t.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Im a 52yr heterosexual male who is HIV +.<br \/>\nI was diagnosed in 2016 with a  Viral Load of 25000 and a CD4 count of 79  I started treatment straight away and have been U ever since.<br \/>\nMy CD4 count has slowly increased over the four years up to a highest reading of 280 but my last bloods was 160.<br \/>\nMy question is will my CD4 count ever get back to a \\&#8221;normal\\&#8221; level or am I just to accept that it wont\\&#8217; recover .<br \/>\nMy consultant isnt worried so long as I remain undetectable but I cant help worrying<\/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-16189","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\/16189","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=16189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16189\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}