I am sorry to hear about your partner’s recent diagnosis. This is a lot to take in and although it is difficult now, it will slowly get easier.<\/p>\n
Treatment is very effective, and adherence (taking each dose on time) is important for a good response.<\/p>\n
After starting treatment, viral load drops very quickly. This is usually by 90% in the first few days and by 99% within the first couple of weeks. UK guidelines state that viral load should be undetectable by three months, but although a few people take longer than this, some people see this within one month.<\/p>\n
The CD4 recovery is usually more steady and slow, but this varies a lot between individuals. Your partner still has a good CD4 count and after treatment this should get stronger.<\/p>\n
See these links for information on CD4 counts<\/a> and for an Introduction to Combination Therapy<\/a>.<\/p>\n In the UK you can get support from many organisations and lists of support groups are included on the\u00a0Positive East<\/a> and Positively UK<\/a> websites.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" My partner received his diagnosis a week ago. His CD4 was 210 and viral load high. I’m quite nervous as there is a lot to take in and understand as well as dealing with the shock. We realise he will likely start treatment quite soon.<\/p>\n How long after treatment would we see his results start to improve? He is very healthy and had been leading an active lifestyle and eating well, although has just been feeling a little run down for quite a while.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,9,28,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-cd4-and-viral-load","category-newly-diagnosed","category-starting-treatment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4488","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=4488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4488\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}