A CD4 count of 1247 is great! It indicates that your immune system is very good. It also means that there is no immediate need for you to start treatment. Both UK and WHO (World Health Organisation) treatment guidelines recommend starting with a CD4 count of 350.<\/p>\n
You mention that you tested positive using 4 rapid HIV tests. \u2018Rapid\u2019 refers to the time taken for the results and not the time since exposure that a test can be used. A positive result from a rapid test always needs to confirmed by a different laboratory test. It is therefore unlikely that 4 positive results would be incorrect.<\/p>\n
I can appreciate your confusion regarding your high CD4 count. However, a high CD4 count does not necessarily mean that you do not have HIV. CD4 counts do fluctuate (can go up and down) depending on a number of factors. This includes the time of day the test was done. It could also be that you were recently infected and your CD4 count is increasing after the initial infection.<\/p>\n
Do you know what your viral load is? Viral load refers to the amount of virus in your body. Usually this would be detectable, even with a high CD4 count. Though a small percentage of people (less than 0.01%) maintain a high CD4 count and undetectable viral load, without needing treatment. Please follow this link to our guide which explains how CD4 and viral load are related.<\/a><\/p>\n Best wishes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I tested HIV positive in November 2011 with a CD4 count of 947. In June 2012 I went back for CD4 count since I was told to have it checked after every 6months and it was 1247. I have not started medication. I was tested about 4 times using rapid HIV test and the result was positive. I am now confused because I thought my CD4 count should be going down instead of upwards.<\/p>\n What could be my problem, did the HIV test I undertook probably produce a false positive result? Please help.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,9,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-cd4-and-viral-load","category-hiv-testing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7154","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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7154"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24530,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7154\/revisions\/24530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}