Hi, how are you doing?<\/p>\n
It is great that you have achieved undetectable levels of viral load.<\/p>\n
Biktarvy has a long half life. This means that it will still work in the body after 24 hours. This allows some leeway for occasionally missing a dose of medication. While 5 days is not ideal, Biktarvy would have been active to some degree in your body for a day or two after.<\/p>\n
For this reason, 5 days is unlikely to be long enough for your viral load to rebound. This usually needs a full week without medication for your viral load to become detectable. It is also not going to be long enough to have an effect on your CD4 count.<\/p>\n
While it is very unlikely, are you able to access a viral load test in the next few weeks? Doing so after restarting Biktarvy can let you know if your treatment is still working.<\/p>\n
Josh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Hi, I am a 34 year old female diagnosed with HIV but I have been undetectable now for at least a year. I have been treated by Biktarvy, I have missed almost 5 days of medication due to insurance not being instated until the first of next month. I\u2019m extremely afraid\u2026 my cd4 count was at 339 as of last year and I\u2019m sure it has been raised by now\u2026 but I\u2019m afraid that if i have missed so many days i won\u2019t be able to receive the benefits of the medication.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5,7,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-access-to-treatment","category-adherence","category-all-topics","category-cd4-and-viral-load"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20087","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\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20087\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}