Hi there<\/p>\n
Thanks for posting about your experience and for letting us answer online.<\/p>\n
You have done really well on treatment.<\/p>\n
It is also good that you are interested in your results and asking these questions.<\/p>\n
One you are on HIV meds (called ART) the most important results to for your viral load to be undetectable. This shows that your meds are working really well.<\/p>\n
The CD4 count is much less important now, and it is not unusual to have results that go up and down a little. Your changes from 600 to about 400 really don’t mean anything and your doctor will see these as the same.<\/p>\n
Less than 2% of your CD4 cells are in blood and things like diet, exercise and recent infections can sometimes cause them to flow more into or out of the blood. This gives yo a different CD4 count but your immune system is still doing well.<\/p>\n
For example, your latest CD4:CD8 ratio is 0.76 which is stronger than 0.43 as getting close to or above 1.0 is better.<\/p>\n
IF you ask for your CD4 percentage (CD4%) you might find this also shows no real change.<\/p>\n
Please don’t worry abot this, but ask your doctor to explain it to if you are worried.<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Hi there, I had a decline in my CD4 count that has worried me.<\/p>\n
I was diagnosed and started treatment 2.5 years after infection (I\u2019m 22).<\/p>\n
My CD4 count was 353 and my viral load 140.000. Two months after starting treatment, I was undetectable, my CD4 went up to 600 and my CD4\/CD8 was 0.43.<\/p>\n
Now, 7 months after starting treatment my CD4 went down to 343 (CD4\/CD8 of 0;76) and I\u2019m still undetectable. <\/p>\n
Is it normal to have this big of a decrease?<\/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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23732","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\/23732","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=23732"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23737,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23732\/revisions\/23737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}