Hi, how are you doing?<\/p>\n
How long have you been on treatment?<\/p>\n
A viral load of 51 is excellent. This is considered the same as undetectable as there is no longer a risk to partners. You cannot pass on HIV via sex when your viral load is this low.<\/p>\n
It means your treatment is working and HIV is no longer having an impact on your health. It will allow your body to naturally recover its CD4 cells.<\/p>\n
Recovery of CD4 cells is slow. It is great that it has already gone up from 55 to 114. Are you on a medication called co-trimoxazole?<\/p>\n
As it is the body that recovers CD4 cells the process is slow. Unlike viral load which can be suppressed in a few months, CD4 recovery can take a few years.<\/p>\n
It is encouraging that you have responded so well to treatment and your CD4 count has already doubled. It would be expected that it would return to a healthy range (430-1690) within a year or two. Unfortunately there is no way to speed up this process but you are going in the right direction.<\/p>\n
Josh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Hi, my CD4 was 55 back on May, but my viral load was not disclosed by my doctor as the results were not in yet. My CD4 went up to 114 and my viral load was 51 copies. I know I’m on the road to undetected viral load, my question is how fast would my CD4 foes up after this?<\/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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-cd4-and-viral-load","category-newly-diagnosed"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22674","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=22674"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22676,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22674\/revisions\/22676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}