{"id":23274,"date":"2024-05-23T11:02:39","date_gmt":"2024-05-23T11:02:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=23274"},"modified":"2024-05-23T11:02:39","modified_gmt":"2024-05-23T11:02:39","slug":"does-having-a-high-viral-load-at-the-start-lead-to-a-poor-prognosis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/23274","title":{"rendered":"Does having a high viral load at the start lead to a poor prognosis?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi, how are you doing?<\/p>\n<p>A viral load of<a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/factsheets\/viral-load-converting-log-values-to-numbers\"> Log7<\/a> suggests a viral load greater than 1000000. A viral load this high often means recent infection.<\/p>\n<p>It is great to hear how well you have responded to treatment.<\/p>\n<p>You now have a viral load considered undetectable (anything below 200) and your CD4 count has remained within a healthy range (430-1690).<\/p>\n<p>The initial high viral load is not prognostic of the progression of HIV. Your clinical staff are correct in that this does not impact how HIV is affecting you.<\/p>\n<p>You have responded well to treatment and this is the biggest factor which determines the course of HIV. As you have both results within healthy ranges, the impact of HIV on your health is now minimal, if at all. There are no specific implications you need to be worried about because of the initial high viral load.<\/p>\n<p>Josh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was diagnosed positive as a result of blood tests during a period of severe illness, v high fevers, various inflammations etc. This occurred within three weeks of actual infection, as the likely event was identifiable.<br \/>\nViral load was in excess of log7 (too high for the equipment to put a figure on it), CD4 was around 550.<br \/>\nEight months later on ART the viral load was down to 75 and CD 660.<\/p>\n<p>My question is does this very high VL and the severe primary infection symptoms have any future implications? The clinic staff seem to think not<\/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-23274","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\/23274","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=23274"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23275,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23274\/revisions\/23275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}