{"id":577,"date":"2008-09-13T10:12:13","date_gmt":"2008-09-13T09:12:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i-base.info\/qa\/?p=577"},"modified":"2021-11-22T12:18:19","modified_gmt":"2021-11-22T12:18:19","slug":"how-long-have-i-lived-with-hiv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/577","title":{"rendered":"How long have I lived with HIV?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Usually people count the time they have lived with HIV from the point of infection onwards. Some people do not know when they were infected and they can give only an estimation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am HIV-positive and do not know exactly when I was infected.  When I was finally diagnosed the virus was well advanced and I was told I had a CD4 count of 21 and a very high viral load. A week later I was hospitalized with PCP.  I&#8217;ve been on medication for three years now and my CD4 is 670 and viral load is undetectable. I was told I have had the virus about 10 years before finding out I was positive due to the progression of the virus. I was wondering have I been living with HIV for 13 years or for three years that I&#8217;ve known I&#8217;m positive and on medications.<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve read articles where people state how long they have lived with the virus. I was just curious how they count.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577","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=577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}