Hi, how are you doing?<\/p>\n
It is great to hear how quickly your CD4 count has recovered and your viral load is now suppressed.<\/p>\n
Had you been taking Bactrim (co-trimoxazole) while your CD4 count was recovering?<\/p>\n
Recovery of CD4 count is slow, but it is really encouraging how quickly yours has bounced back. It is likely it will return to a healthy range within the year (430 -1690).<\/p>\n
Unlike viral load which responds very quickly after starting treatment, CD4 count rebuilds slowly but as it has risen so quickly after 3 only 3 months you have a very low risk of opportunistic diseases.<\/p>\n
Having a low CD4 count does not mean that you will have acquired an oppurtunistic disease, rather it means you are at higher risk. As you are recovering well this suggests that you have not had one previously and even if you had, they are often treatable and will not have a significant impact.<\/p>\n
Josh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Hi ;)<\/p>\n
I was diagnosed with a low CD4 count = 120. I panic all the time and check my body carefully to see if I am sick. After 3 months and viral load=120.
\nHow soon will I know that I am no longer suffering from opportunistic diseases? Or that they didn’t develop in me when I had a low CD4 count?
\nWhat research to do? I can’t deal with my nerves and I get panic attacks because of it ;(<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,9,28,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-cd4-and-viral-load","category-newly-diagnosed","category-opportunistic-infections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22099","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=22099"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22100,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22099\/revisions\/22100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}