{"id":5212,"date":"2011-11-30T17:04:15","date_gmt":"2011-11-30T17:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=5212"},"modified":"2011-11-30T17:04:15","modified_gmt":"2011-11-30T17:04:15","slug":"my-cd4-and-viral-load-has-risen-lately-should-i-be-concerned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/5212","title":{"rendered":"My CD4 and viral load has risen lately &#8211; should I be concerned?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Your results are likely to just be natural fluctuations and your doctor would probably see these as the same. Your average CD4 count is probably around 400 and sometimes it will be higher and sometimes lower. You could check whether there is a real chance by seeing whether your CD4% has been stable.<\/p>\n<p>Can I ask whether you have missed or taking late dosage lately?\u00a0 Adherence is important and if you do not take your medication as prescribe &#8211; every time, on time and following diet restriction, then you can develop resistance.<\/p>\n<p>You did not mentioned about your 1st line treatment drugs?\u00a0 Can you please tell us more about the previous drugs that was prescribe to you.\u00a0 You did mentioned about the side effects &#8211; do you which drugs that causes the bad side effects?<\/p>\n<p>Another reason could be that you had a &#8216;blip&#8217; in your test results.\u00a0 Most people have a blip for one of their results and this is because viral load often fluctuates at low levels. Single low-level blips (to less than a few hundred) are not linked to a higher risk of treatment failure in the future.\u00a0 Your clinic should already have taken a second viral load test though to confirm these results. If not, this would be a good idea.<\/p>\n<p>For more information on blips please go to this <a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/changing\/spikes-and-blips\">link<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My CD4 values this year have been: Jan &#8211; 229, May &#8211; 350, Jun &#8211; 436, Oct &#8211; 500 but in Dec it was back to just below 300.<\/p>\n<p>My viral load count has been: Jan &#8211;  29, May &#8211; 32, Jun &#8211; 60, Oct &#8211; 37 and finally in Dec &#8211; 142 so the highest it has been this year and well above detectable levels.<\/p>\n<p>The results do not sit easilly with me; do I have reason to be concerned as well as of course, naturally disappointed?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5212","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=5212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}