{"id":356,"date":"2024-10-24T16:36:15","date_gmt":"2024-10-24T16:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i-base.info\/qa\/?p=356"},"modified":"2025-01-17T00:29:03","modified_gmt":"2025-01-17T00:29:03","slug":"can-you-tell-how-long-you-have-had-hiv-from-you-cd4-count","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/356","title":{"rendered":"Can your CD4 count show how long you have had HIV?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thank you for your question.<\/p>\n<p>Your CD4 count is still strong and your low viral load is also good.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, neither of these tests can show when you first became HIV positive.<\/p>\n<p>This is because some people progress more quickly than others.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes you can use the results together with your history of times when you had more risky sex. Even then though it is just a rough guess.<\/p>\n<p>It is good that you have a good diet but this is not directly linked to either CD4 or viral load.<\/p>\n<p><em>Note: This answer was updated in 2016 and 2024 from an original quest posted in March 2008.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Does your CD4 count tell you how long you have had HIV? <\/p>\n<p>I think I must have had it for a least 8 years. <\/p>\n<p>Today I had my first CD4 count results &#8211;  578 and my viral load is 3930. <\/p>\n<p>I have always been very healthy and looked after my diet could this be the reason why I am still well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,9,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-cd4-and-viral-load","category-living-with-hiv-long-term"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356","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=356"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25763,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356\/revisions\/25763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}