{"id":208,"date":"2007-11-01T10:46:20","date_gmt":"2007-11-01T09:46:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i-base.info\/qa\/?p=208"},"modified":"2021-11-22T12:18:41","modified_gmt":"2021-11-22T12:18:41","slug":"what-treatment-can-i-use-if-my-cd4-count-is-over-800","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/208","title":{"rendered":"What treatment can I use if my CD4 count is over 800?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hey, thanks for the Q.<\/p>\n<p>Your doctor is giving you good advice. You have a good immune system and your body is doing very well at fighting HIV without treatment.<\/p>\n<p>Although on average people loose about 50 CD4 cells a year if they are not on treatment, there is a lot of variation. You may need treatment in the next few years, or given your current good health, you may even get a few years longer than that.<\/p>\n<p>Until then, enjoy the time you have without needing to take meds, but make sure you still monitor your CD4 and viral load in case it changes.<\/p>\n<p>It sounds like you&#8217;re doing really well at staying clean &#8211; which will help your long term health as much as your healthy diet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello, I have been HIV-positive since 2001 &amp; have just seen a specialist. He tells me I am too healthy to treat as my CD4s are at 844 and viral load is 3,500. My Q is what treatment if any can i start?<\/p>\n<p>How long will it take for my CD4s to fall to 500 so i can start HAART treatment?<\/p>\n<p>I take a multi vit &amp; selenium tab, eat a lot of fruit &amp; yogurt &amp; drink green tea. I am also on a methadone program &amp; I<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,26,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-living-with-hiv-long-term","category-starting-treatment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208","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=208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}