Hi, how are you doing?<\/p>\n
It is great to hear that you were able to start treatment so soon. What is the name of the ART you are taking?<\/p>\n
Have you been told your CD4%? CD4 count is not always accurate as it can be affected by a few things e.g., time of the day and if you have exercised. CD4% is a more accurate representation of how your immune system is doing over time.<\/p>\n
As you started with a CD4 count of 9, regaining a CD4 count of 138 by June is still a really good recovery.<\/p>\n
Your viral load is still being suppressed. A change of 35 between the two results is not significant. Similar to your CD4 count this can also be effected by other things e.g., recent infection\/vaccine.<\/p>\n
Do you have any further tests booked?<\/p>\n
Josh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I was diagnosed with HIV November 2022 with CD4 count of 9 and viral load of 84. I started treatment that same month. In March 2023 CD4 went up to 187 and VL to 310. In June CD4 went down to 138 and VL355. So I don’t really understand how or if my treatment is really working. I am always in pain and i struggle to go by.<\/p>\n
Please advise<\/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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-cd4-and-viral-load"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22327","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=22327"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22328,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22327\/revisions\/22328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}