Hi, how are you doing?<\/p>\n
I understand why you are feeling frustrated. Have you had a second viral load test to confirm this?<\/p>\n
Switching from TLE to TLD is very common and it would be rare for your viral load suppression to not continue.<\/p>\n
Lab errors are the most common reason for increases in viral load like this. A second test would confirm if this is an actual increase or if a mistake was made.<\/p>\n
It is also possible this was a viral load blip. Again, a blip this large is uncommon but it is possible. A second test would then confirm your status again and if your medication was working.<\/p>\n
Were you ill or recently had a vaccine when your viral load test was done? Both of these can increase your viral load for a short time.<\/p>\n
Do you know your current CD4 count?<\/p>\n
Josh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Hi, my name is Tia. I was diagnosed with HIV 20 years ago and started my ARVs 15 years ago. All these years I’ve been on TLE and virally suppressed. On March 2021 I was switched to TLD and VL became unsupressed from then as it my Vl is 1162 copies now instead of suppressed. It’s going high…I’m so frustrated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,9,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-cd4-and-viral-load","category-changing-treatment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20089","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=20089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20089\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}