Once a year, perhaps is a bit too infrequent. Many hospitals with a good standard (and with free of charge tests) will insist on checking your CD4 count minimum every 6 months when you are not on ARVs. Some do it even more frequently (3-4 months) depending on the clinical state of the person.<\/p>\n
I do not know how expensive the CD4 test is in your clinic, but it is among the cheapest monitoring tests (compared to viral load and resistance, for instance) when it comes to HIV treatment.<\/p>\n
It may make sense to shop around and find the cheapest and reliable place where you live, as CD4 may fluctuate and many things can happen within a year period.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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\nI was recently diagnosed with HIV with a CD4 count of nearly 700. My doctor mentioned I should have a CD4 count every 3 months. As I would have to pay for this (I’m not in the UK), my belief is that it is more financially beneficial for the hospital rather than for my own benefit. Perhaps I’m wrong, but if I’m newly infected and my CD4 count is strong then I’m thinking it’s not necessary to have it checked so often. I am thinking, for the present, once a year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-801","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\/801","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=801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}