A big drop in CD4 count is highly unusual – it can also be a lab error, in which case it needs confirming immediately.\u00a0 Go and speak to your doctor so that they can run the test again.\u00a0 If the results are the same then ask your doctor to check your CD4 percentage to see if there is any changes.\u00a0 If there are changes, then you would need to start or change your treatment immediately.\u00a0 By the way have you started your treatment yet?\u00a0 If so what type of HIV drugs are you taking?<\/p>\n
Your CD4 has drop to quite a low level and this means that you are prone to other opportunistic infections (OIs).\u00a0 Many people with very low CD4, even below 10, can still remain healthy. \u00a0It just means that the risks of being infected by HIV-related illness increases as the CD4 count drops.<\/p>\n
Your best option is to see your HIV doctor immediately. \u00a0Your doctor should be able to investigate the cause of the problem. \u00a0People with CD4 below 50 is much more susceptible to CMV (cytomegalovirus) – a viral infection that affect your eyes and vision. \u00a0They will be able to provide you with prophylaxis and also an eye examination.<\/p>\n
If you are not on treatment then you must start immediately.\u00a0 If you are on treatment then this means that your treatment is not working for you.\u00a0 Another reason is that you could have another health complication and it has become acute.\u00a0 So further investigation by doctor is needed.<\/p>\n
A very detailed answer to a similar question are at this link<\/a> which you may find useful, and another link<\/a> about CD4 and viral load.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Can you please tell me what would cause my CD4 count of 220 drop to 30 in less then a month?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,9,29,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-cd4-and-viral-load","category-opportunistic-infections","category-other-tests"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5013","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5013\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}