{"id":20759,"date":"2022-12-26T10:00:27","date_gmt":"2022-12-26T10:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=20759"},"modified":"2022-12-26T10:05:21","modified_gmt":"2022-12-26T10:05:21","slug":"will-i-be-okay-if-i-have-symptoms-after-two-weeks-on-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/20759","title":{"rendered":"Will I be okay if I have symptoms after two weeks on ART?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi there<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for getting in touch and for letting us post an answer online online.<\/p>\n<p>Even if you are already ill when you are diagnosed, HIV treatment &#8211; called ART &#8211; is very effective. It can still work really well.<\/p>\n<p>As you started ART straight away, do you have your CD4 result yet? This is a blood test and results can be from about 0 to 1600. Higher is much better and less than 200 is advanced HIV.<\/p>\n<p>Your CD4 result would help me comment on your current symptoms.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>If you had these symptoms before starting ART, the meds can improve them. This might take a few weeks.<\/li>\n<li>Sometimes, if your CD4 count is less than 50, new symptoms can be from a new illness. This needs expert care because the new infection s can be very serious.<\/li>\n<li>New symptoms can also be low level side effects as your body gets used to ART.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Please talk to your doctor about which of these is most likely.<\/p>\n<p>HIV-2 is much less common than HIV-1. It usually progresses more slowly, but needs to be managed just as carefully. One difference is that some of the drugs used to treat HIV-1 do not work against HIV-2.<\/p>\n<p>ART will already be working though and things should soon get much easier.<\/p>\n<p>Please let me know if you have more questions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I tested positive type 2 three weeks ago and started treatment immediately.<\/p>\n<p>I feel a bit stronger but I&#8217;m still having fever, ongoing diarrhoea and I feel bloated.<\/p>\n<p>Is it a side effect from the treatment or is too late for me?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,28,38,39,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-newly-diagnosed","category-side-effects","category-starting-treatment","category-support"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20759","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=20759"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20766,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20759\/revisions\/20766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}