{"id":26732,"date":"2026-08-16T21:44:40","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T21:44:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=26732"},"modified":"2026-08-16T21:44:40","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T21:44:40","slug":"can-i-start-meds-again-if-my-viral-load-is-8000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/26732","title":{"rendered":"Can I start meds again if my viral load is 8000?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi there<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for your question and for emailing in.<\/p>\n<p>I am sorry that I need a bit more information to answer this properly though.<\/p>\n<p>My main question is whether you were still taking your meds when the latest viral load test was done.<\/p>\n<p>If yes, then your clinic will probably suggest changing to a new combination.<\/p>\n<p>If no though &#8211; ie if you had stopped taking meds &#8211; then restarting again is easy and should still work very well.<\/p>\n<p>Please also talk to your clinic again as they know your HIV history.<\/p>\n<p>The clinic will also want to ask you about whether you were still taking your meds at the time.<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi there<\/p>\n<p>What happened if you viral load is 8000 and u want to start afresh your medication?<\/p>\n<p>I live in South Africa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,9,10,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-cd4-and-viral-load","category-changing-treatment","category-south-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26732","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=26732"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26733,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26732\/revisions\/26733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}