Hi there<\/p>\n
Thanks – this is a great question.<\/p>\n
Your situation is also so unusual that there are different options.<\/p>\n
First would be good to check that you are definitely HIV positive? How high was your viral load was before you first started treatment?<\/p>\n
Did you have a laboratory test to confirm you are HIV positive?<\/p>\n
We sometimes hear of people who start treatment based on only one positive HIV test.<\/p>\n
Second, it is easy to restarting treatment. At some time your viral load is likely to rebound without ARVs so this would stop you worrying about when this might happen.<\/p>\n
The third option is you could stay off ARVs This would involve close and more frequent viral load monitoring.<\/p>\n
Guidelines recognise that there is limited data in people with your current results. This means there is an option to either restart or stay off and monitor<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I stopped my ARVs one year ago when my cd4 was 1375 and viral load was undetectable.<\/p>\n
Now my cd4 is still high at 1230 and and my viral load is still undetectable after a year without treatment.<\/p>\n
Should I start ARVs again or wait?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,9,39,55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-cd4-and-viral-load","category-starting-treatment","category-stopping-treatment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23688","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23688"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23697,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23688\/revisions\/23697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}