{"id":16326,"date":"2020-12-20T13:26:59","date_gmt":"2020-12-20T13:26:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=16326"},"modified":"2024-10-14T09:19:42","modified_gmt":"2024-10-14T09:19:42","slug":"can-routine-blood-tests-show-if-viral-load-blips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/16326","title":{"rendered":"Can routine blood tests show if viral load blips?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi<\/p>\n<p>Great you have had such a good response to treatment &#8211; and for so long.<\/p>\n<p>The longer your viral load stay undetectable &#8211; year after year &#8211; the less likely it is to rebound.<\/p>\n<p>This is because the very low levels of HIV below detection, slowly and steadily, continue getting lower. This depends on you continuing to take your meds :)<\/p>\n<p>You can only know about a blip if it happens close to when you take blood for routine viral load tests.<\/p>\n<p>This isn&#8217;t anything to worry about though. Any low level fluctuation is likely to still be below 200 copies\/mL This is still too low for your partners to be at any risk. For example, if you are not using condoms and your partners are HIV negative..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello I been undetectable for 17 yrs, Depending on what time of the day i do my labs (every 6 months) my CD4 count ranges  630-800. <\/p>\n<p>My question: is there an indication from my labs that I may have had detectable viral load between test?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,9,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-cd4-and-viral-load","category-hiv-transmission"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16326","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=16326"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25114,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16326\/revisions\/25114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}