Hi<\/p>\n
There is a wide range of response to treatment.<\/p>\n
Most people who start with a very low CD4 count take longer to see this sort of increase. In your case you have just been lucky in getting an earlier response.<\/p>\n
Just as the speed of response varies, so does the range at which CD4 count increase to. As your first results has been good, you could reasonably expect future CD4 counts to increase over 200 in the future. If you are lucky it could rise higher still. It is usually safe to stop prophylactics meds after your count has increased, but your doctor will advise you on this based on your medical history.<\/p>\n
Your viral load is responded very nicely too. The specific response varies in different people.<\/p>\n
Your viral load has reduced by over 1.5 logs (see this fact sheet on ‘logs’<\/a>).<\/p>\n It is pretty likely to be undetectable or close to this for your next result, so long as you have been taking every dose of your meds on time. Are you also taking your darunavir 30 minutes after a meal? This is important to get your meds to work at their proper strength. Information on darunavir<\/a>. Detailed information from the Summary of Product Characteristics<\/a>.<\/p>\n Although the type of food does not mater, unless you do this the drug levels are reduced by 30%.<\/p>\n Food will also increase the levels of tenofovir (one of the drugs in Truvada). This might also help your viral load come down a little faster.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Hi There is a wide range of response to treatment. Most people who start with a very low CD4 count take longer to see this sort of increase. In your case you have just been lucky in getting an earlier …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,9,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-cd4-and-viral-load","category-starting-treatment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4688","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=4688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4688\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}