{"id":22869,"date":"2024-02-27T11:41:48","date_gmt":"2024-02-27T11:41:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=22869"},"modified":"2024-02-27T11:41:48","modified_gmt":"2024-02-27T11:41:48","slug":"what-do-my-results-mean-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/22869","title":{"rendered":"What do my results mean?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi, how are you doing?<\/p>\n<p>Do you have a support network around you e.g., friends\/family, your doctor or ever support groups?<\/p>\n<p>Your <a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/cd4-count\/\">CD4 count<\/a> is very good. CD4 cells are the cells that HIV target. CD4 cells are used in your immune system and when they are damage you become more vulnerable to other infections\/diseases.<\/p>\n<p>A CD4 count between 430 and 1690 is considered a healthy range. As yours is 963 it means HIV has not caused any significant damage and you still have a really healthy immune system.<\/p>\n<p>Your <a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/testing\/viral-load\">viral load<\/a> is how active HIV is in the body. In early infection this can be over 100,000. A viral load of 1300 suggests your body is able to somewhat naturally suppress HIV which is a very good thing. Treatment will help suppress this further to the point where you cannot pass on HIV and there will be no risk of damage from HIV to yourself.<\/p>\n<p>Treatment aims to have your viral load undetectable (below 200 depending on the test).<\/p>\n<p>This is a link about <a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/starting\">starting treatment<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Josh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have just recently found out I am HIV positive, came as a huge shock as I imagine it does for most. So I\u2019m trying to get my head around understanding it all. I have a CD4 count of 963 and a viral load of 1300. Is that good or bad? I am not on medication yet, my appointment for that is 15th.<\/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-22869","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\/22869","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=22869"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22871,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22869\/revisions\/22871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}