{"id":311,"date":"2008-02-22T15:35:10","date_gmt":"2008-02-22T14:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i-base.info\/qa\/?p=311"},"modified":"2021-11-22T12:18:35","modified_gmt":"2021-11-22T12:18:35","slug":"why-would-test-results-change-so-much-in-a-short-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/311","title":{"rendered":"Why would test results change so much in a short time?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi<\/p>\n<p>Although it can be a shock when your blood tests change quickly, this could be for all sorts of reasons, including lab errors and natural fluctuation.<\/p>\n<p>Any unexpected results first need to be checked with a confirmatory test.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes takes a while to see any pattern in your results.<\/p>\n<p>With HIV care, everything is individual. Even if it turns out that your HIV is progressing a bit quicker than average, this just means it is likely that you witll start treatment a bit earlier. You will still get the same long-term benefit from treatment.<\/p>\n<p>But first, check out you next results, as your CD4 count could easily be higher again anyway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In September 2007, my viral load was 962, and CD4 was 626. Then in January 2008, my viral load was 4,320, and CD4 was 354.<\/p>\n<p>Why did they change so fast, and are those numbers still good? Should I get on medication? I am worried that I am gonna develop AIDS quickly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,9,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-cd4-and-viral-load","category-newly-diagnosed"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311","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=311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}