{"id":3930,"date":"2011-04-21T09:21:47","date_gmt":"2011-04-21T09:21:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=3930"},"modified":"2011-04-21T09:21:47","modified_gmt":"2011-04-21T09:21:47","slug":"what-is-happening-to-my-cd4-count-and-why-is-it-changing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/3930","title":{"rendered":"What is happening to my CD4 count and why is it changing?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thank you for your question.<\/p>\n<p>It is perfectly normal to see a fluctuation in your CD4 count. For a full explanation as to why this happens please follow this link to a <a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/1515\">similar question<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>When the CD4 count fluctuates, the CD4% is often used as it is usually more stable. Your CD4% is still good and the changes are so small that they could be said to be stable which is good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello,<\/p>\n<p>Since I started taking cortisone, my doctor is checking my level of CD4 every 2 weeks.<\/p>\n<p>2 weeks ago, I got CD4 count of 739 and CD4% at 25.3%, viral load 16,000.<\/p>\n<p>Today my CD4 count dropped to 418 and CD4% to 24.6%, viral load 25,000.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s happening? It is normal to have these kind of changes?<\/p>\n<p>Thanks<\/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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-cd4-and-viral-load"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3930","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=3930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3930\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}