{"id":424,"date":"2008-04-29T16:35:22","date_gmt":"2008-04-29T15:35:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i-base.info\/qa\/?p=424"},"modified":"2021-11-22T12:18:28","modified_gmt":"2021-11-22T12:18:28","slug":"are-the-cd4-count-fluctuations-common","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/424","title":{"rendered":"Are the CD4 count fluctuations common?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, many people experience this.<\/p>\n<p>The CD4 counts can be affected by many and varied reasons-i.e. stress, time of the day, menstrual cycle, other infections, recent vaccination, lab errors etc.<\/p>\n<p>As your CD4 count is high throughout, you are not at any risk.<\/p>\n<p>A more detailed answer about CD4 changes is\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/ttfa\/section-1\/9-interpreting-cd4-results-cd4-count-and-cd4-percentage\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have recently found out that I am HIV positive. I also contracted Hep B. I have had my bloods done three times now. First time CD4 count was 500, second time 980. However, this third time it has droped back down to 560. I am not on meds yet. Also my viral load has increased from 60,000 to 80,000.<\/p>\n<p>My question is do these fluctuations happen? My doctor told me not to worry. But it&#8217;s easier said than done. So I am interested to know if this is common. That CD4 count can go up and down and viral load is the same.<\/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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-424","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\/424","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=424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}