I am assuming that you are not on treatment and that your CD4 count has just stayed high since your diagnosis.<\/p>\n
The range for a CD4 count in someone who is HIV negative varies with each make of test but is usually around 400 to 1600.<\/p>\n
There is not much difference in health or life expectancy for HIV negative people wherever they are within this range. Some people just have a higher ‘normal’ count than others.<\/p>\n
Similarly, HIV positive people respond differently to the virus. For some people their CD4 count drops quickly but for most it drops gradually over many years. For a very small percentage (less than 1%) their immune system stays relatively stable evan after many years.<\/p>\n
It sound like you are just lucky and have a strong immune response. If your viral load is also undetectable then you are part of an even rarer group (less than 0.01% of HIV positive people) called an ‘elite controller’.<\/p>\n
It is unlikely that the test was wrong and that you were misdiagnosed. If you viral load is undetectable though it will not do you any harm to retest for HIV if this is something you are worried about.<\/p>\n
Very occasionally we hear of a report of misdiagnoses, sometimes even when people have used treatment for many years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I have been HIV positive for 12 years and my cd4 has never been under 1000 what does that mean, my doctor always tell me that my cd4 is better than people who aren’t HIV positive, sometimes I feel that I was misdiagnosed could that be possible?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4983","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\/4983","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4983\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}