Hi, how are you doing?<\/p>\n
I am sorry to hear you are feeling quite stressed. It is good to hear you take your medication daily and have never missed a dose.<\/p>\n
Your viral load is still suppressed and shows your medication is still working. The most likely reason as mentioned is a blip.<\/p>\n
You have mentioned that you had a cough on the day of testing. Being ill can appear to change these results. They can falsely elevate your viral load and lead your Cd4 count to looking lower than normal.<\/p>\n
Have you been told what your CD4% is? This is similar to the count but unlike the count which fluctuates with other infections, time of day and exercise, the CD4% remains much more stable throughout testing.<\/p>\n
Have you been offered a second test soon to confirm what your lab results are?<\/p>\n
Josh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I was diagnosed positive 18 months ago.
\nCD4 = 291<\/p>\n
After 3 months I was undetectable and CD4 = 505
\nAfter 6 months I was undetectable and CD4 = 650
\nNow after 18 months viral load is 170 and CD4=45<\/p>\n
Doctor says it’s very likely a blip, but what’s really stressing me out is the drop in CD4.
\nI had a slight cough on the test day that has cleared up, but otherwise I felt fine.
\nI take my medication every morning, and have never missed a dose.<\/p>\n
I’m quite stressed about this result.
\nThank you all.<\/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-22731","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\/22731","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=22731"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22732,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22731\/revisions\/22732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}