{"id":20143,"date":"2022-07-04T12:14:37","date_gmt":"2022-07-04T12:14:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=20143"},"modified":"2022-07-04T12:14:37","modified_gmt":"2022-07-04T12:14:37","slug":"why-has-my-viral-load-gone-up-after-a-vaccine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/20143","title":{"rendered":"Why has my viral load gone up after a vaccine?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi, how are you doing?<\/p>\n<p>Your doctor is right to suggest getting a repeat test. This will rule out if this is a true viral failure &#8211; this is not likely.<\/p>\n<p>The vaccines you have mentioned are likely to be the cause for this blip in viral load. At your next test, any affect these vaccines will have had would have worn off. Hopefully you will return to being undetectable.<\/p>\n<p>It is also possible this was a <a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/changing\/blips\">blip<\/a>. These are common events whereby viral load increases but returns to being suppressed. These are not triggered by an event and can be regular part of HIV treatment.<\/p>\n<p>Di you have your CD4 count done at the same time?<\/p>\n<p>Josh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi everybody, I&#8217;m on treatment with Biktarvy since I found out I was HIV positive 1 and a half years ago. I&#8217;ve always been undetectable, except for the last time, 2 weeks ago, when they found I have VL 251 (which it seems really high to me).<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve never missed a single pill. I&#8217;m very worried this could lead to virological failure and the virus becoming resistant to one or more drugs. The doctor told me I should repeat the viral load in 3 months, so on September 2022. <\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know if this could be important: about 25 days before I had my viral load checked, I got anti-hepatitis A and chickenpox\/measles\/mumps\/rubella vaccination. Thanks if you can answer, you all do a great job here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adherence","category-all-topics","category-cd4-and-viral-load"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20143","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=20143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}