{"id":3941,"date":"2011-04-21T10:24:59","date_gmt":"2011-04-21T10:24:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=3941"},"modified":"2011-04-21T10:24:59","modified_gmt":"2011-04-21T10:24:59","slug":"how-can-i-prevent-muscle-wasting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/3941","title":{"rendered":"How can I prevent muscle wasting?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thank you for your question.<\/p>\n<p>Muscle wasting usually occurs either as a side effect of treatment called <a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/side\/fat-loss-lipoatrophy\">lipoatrophy<\/a> or when the CD4 count is very low (below 200). If you are healthy, not on treatment, taking regular exercise and eating a balanced diet then you should not experience HIV-related muscle wasting. You are already doing all the right things to prevent this from happening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi,<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve been positive since November &#8217;09 after seroconversion in October &#8217;09. Since then my CD4 count has been between 500 and 700, my viral load between 20K and 50K and my CD4% has never been below 28%. I eat healthy and well, cycle every day and gym three times a week. I am not on meds yet.<\/p>\n<p>My question is about pre HIV treatment and muscle wasting, to what degree of muscle wasting am I likely to suffer and how can I prevent or reduce this?<\/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":[7,26,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-living-with-hiv-long-term","category-starting-treatment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3941","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=3941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3941\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}