{"id":472,"date":"2008-05-29T15:27:42","date_gmt":"2008-05-29T14:27:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i-base.info\/qa\/?p=472"},"modified":"2021-11-22T12:18:25","modified_gmt":"2021-11-22T12:18:25","slug":"do-hiv-increase-time-for-cuts-to-heal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/472","title":{"rendered":"Do HIV increase time for cuts to heal?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks for your post.<\/p>\n<p>Given your strong (high) CD4 count, it is unlikely that HIV is responsible for cuts taking longer to heal, or for them to be more painful.<\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t seen this reported anywhere.<\/p>\n<p>This may be because, with such a relatively recent diagnosis, you have an increased awareness of any health-related issue. This reaction is pretty common.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was diagnosed HIV + in Sept 07, I&#8217;m not on meds yet; my last results were CD4 -723, CD4% &#8211; 24%, viral load &#8211;  62,000.<\/p>\n<p>I seem to take a long time to heal if I accidently cut or injure my skin. I&#8217;m not sure if I am just imagining my healing to take longer because obviously I never took notice how long my healing time was prior to having HIV &#8211; it just seems to be more painfull &amp; to take longer.<\/p>\n<p>Is this something that HIV + people encounter? Why can&#8217;t the body heal itself in the same way?<\/p>\n<p>Thanks<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,26,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-living-with-hiv-long-term","category-opportunistic-infections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472","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=472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}