Hi there<\/p>\n
It is good that you were diagnosed and able to start ART – and that you have had such a great response to treatment.<\/p>\n
So long as you are careful taking your meds, you can still plan to have a long and active life.<\/p>\n
HIV meds – called ART are still reallyu effective, even if your CD4 count went very low.<\/p>\n
I started HIV treatment in 1996 when my CD4 count was only 2. It tool about a year to see this increase to about 100.<\/p>\n
I am still doing very well more than 25 years later. I still don’t know how long I will live – and you might do slightly better or slightly worse – but this shows you could have plenty of time to start a family, if this is part of your plans in life.<\/p>\n
Good luck with everything<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
In February 2023 I was diagnosed eith advanced HIV with a CD4 count of 62. 3 months late it went up to 206. I’m getting retested in a few days, so will find out where I am then.<\/p>\n
Luckily, I never had any opportunistic infections.<\/p>\n
Because my CD4 count was 62 when diagnosed, does my life expectancy decrease compared to someone who was diagnosed with a CD4 of 200+? <\/p>\n
Sorry to ask. This is a question that runs around my head daily. I’m not even sure if my wife and I are going to have children anymore as I wouldn’t want to leave her with a young child. She doesn’t earn much as it is and I could see her struggling.<\/p>\n
Thanks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,24,26,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-life-expectancy","category-living-with-hiv-long-term","category-newly-diagnosed"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21966","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=21966"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21972,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21966\/revisions\/21972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}