None of these three results are considered different. Technically they are all the same because they are within a three-fold margin of error for this type of tests.<\/p>\n
This means each results could actually be between about 6,000 and 60,000. However, as they are all around 20,000, this is likely to be close to the actual level.<\/p>\n
Everyone experiences fluctuations in viral load from day-to-day and within each day. However, it is not possible to permanently decrease your viral load without treatment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Hello,<\/p>\n
I\u2019m a 30 year-old male not yet on therapy and I have a question regarding my viral load. The monitoring on my CD4 and viral load is being done monthly and VL was Feb: ~18,000 Mar: ~20,000 Apr: 23,000 May: 17,000.<\/p>\n
Is it possible for the viral load to decrease or is it more likely a lab error? If it\u2019s possible to decrease the viral load, is there an explanation about it?<\/p>\n
I haven\u2019t spoken to my doctor yet but I asked the secretary for the lab results. Meanwhile I would like to know if you have some insights to me. Thank you very much.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2299","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\/2299","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2299\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}