Hi, how are you?<\/p>\n
Sorry to hear that you are feeling a little down.<\/p>\n
How long have you been on treatment? and what your CD4 count when you started?<\/p>\n
CD4 count can take a long time to go back up. Unlike viral load which can change within weeks, CD4 count increases slowly over time and can take a few years to return to a healthy range (430 and 1690).<\/p>\n
What’s your viral load? If this is still suppressed\/undetectable it proves that your treatment is working.<\/p>\n
CD4% is more tightly controlled than the absolute count. The actual count can fluctuate more because of recent infections or vaccines and even the time of day the blood is drawn. The CD4% is not affected by this.<\/p>\n
This also means that a small increase in the absolute count will not always correlate with an increase in CD4%. This doesn’t mean there hasn’t been an increase, just that it wasn’t a big enough increase to shift the CD4%.<\/p>\n
Don’t be discouraged by this. The count has gone up and it is going in the right direction. Starting from a lower number can mean that recovery does take longer. Sticking within medication and continuing with your 6 monthly check ups will help to see this number increase.<\/p>\n
Josh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Hi,<\/p>\n
I had my 6 monthly check up on Thursday, and received my results back today.<\/p>\n
My CD4 count was 206 and has gone up to 269. However, my CD4 % has stayed at 13.3%.<\/p>\n
Is this something I should be worried about? Feel a bit down because of it. Expected it to be higher.<\/p>\n
Thank You<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adherence","category-all-topics","category-cd4-and-viral-load"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22617","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=22617"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22618,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22617\/revisions\/22618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}