{"id":26511,"date":"2026-02-06T22:26:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T22:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=26511"},"modified":"2026-02-08T22:11:38","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T22:11:38","slug":"what-causes-viral-load-to-be-detectable-if-i-always-take-my-meds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/26511","title":{"rendered":"What causes viral load to be detectable if I always take my meds?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi there<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for your question but we really need a bit more info to answer this properly.<\/p>\n<p>Please can you say what the result of the VL test was &#8211; ie what was the number.<\/p>\n<p>If it was detectable but still less than 200, this might just be an error with the test.<\/p>\n<p>Or it might just be a random blip result that will go down again by itself.<\/p>\n<p>This would mean you haven&#8217;t done\u00a0anything to cause this.<\/p>\n<p>The higher the result though, then other things could be the cause, for example if it is still below 1000 or if it is higher than 1000.<\/p>\n<p>This could be linked to your HIV treatment history, include the reasons listed here:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/changing\/reasons\">i-base.info\/guides\/changing\/reasons<\/a><\/p>\n<p>What did your doctor say about the result?<\/p>\n<p>Simon<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am on ART in the USA and suddenly became detectable but I don&#8217;t miss my meds. <\/p>\n<p>What can cause that to happen?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7,9,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adherence","category-all-topics","category-cd4-and-viral-load","category-changing-treatment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26511","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=26511"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26518,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26511\/revisions\/26518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}