{"id":26467,"date":"2026-01-09T03:22:26","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T03:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=26467"},"modified":"2026-01-09T10:27:55","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T10:27:55","slug":"i-am-worried-to-be-60-and-just-diagnosed-with-a-cd4-of-160","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/26467","title":{"rendered":"I am worried to be 60 and just diagnosed with a CD4 of 160?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi there<\/p>\n<p>Please take time to slow down a little because everything is going to be okay :)<\/p>\n<p>Finding out you are positive can still be very scary if you weren&#8217;t expecting this news.<\/p>\n<p>As you find out more information, it will get much easier though. Treatment is now very effective and easy to take and will stop HIV becoming a problem. Treatment also means you are still as likely to live as you would have without HIV.<\/p>\n<p>You also still have a good CD4 count and CD4%.<\/p>\n<p>Now that you are on treatment your CD4 counts are likely to steadily get stronger again, year after year. \u00a0This might increase by 100 or months within the first 6-12 months although everyone is different.<\/p>\n<p>It sounds like you are getting very good care by also having your sexual health checked too.<\/p>\n<p>Syphilis is easy and quick to treat.<\/p>\n<p>This link might help with first information:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/just-found-out\/\">&gt;&gt; Just found out&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>With other links here:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/start-here\/\">&gt;&gt; More links if just diagnosed&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Please let us know if you have other questions<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi I have a cd4 of 160 and 16 percent &#8211; I started Art treatment 7 days ago and my viral load is 400000, I\u2019m 60 what are the chances of me being treated as I also have been told I have syphillis, I\u2019m terrified<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,28,37,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-newly-diagnosed","category-sexual-health","category-starting-treatment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26467","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=26467"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26470,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26467\/revisions\/26470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}