Thank you for your question.<\/p>\n
A lot of things affect the CD4 count including the time of day it is taken, exercise, diet etc. Stress and lack of sleep can also affect your CD4 count.<\/p>\n
To enable me to give you a more specific answer it would help to know what your CD4 count is and how long you have been on treatment. Whilst most people start to see an increase in their CD4 count in the first months after starting treatment, some people takes longer to see more significant increases. About 10% of people do not get large CD4 increases, even when thier viral load is undetectable, though this is not well understood.<\/p>\n
Once you are on treatment the most important thing to monitor is your viral load. Your viral load being undetectable is a really good. There is little anyone can do to increase their CD4 count. For more detailed information please follow this link to a similar question<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Does stress and lack of sleep effect your CD4 count? I am HIV positive and am medicated. I work in a, recently, stressful job and have been going through a lot of stress in my personal life. My viral load is undetectable and yet my CD4 count doesn’t appear to be moving in any direction (which can be considered to be good) yet I would have thought it may have increased?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,9,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-cd4-and-viral-load","category-starting-treatment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2919","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2919"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22300,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2919\/revisions\/22300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}