{"id":8410,"date":"2012-12-11T11:37:21","date_gmt":"2012-12-11T11:37:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=8410"},"modified":"2012-12-11T11:37:21","modified_gmt":"2012-12-11T11:37:21","slug":"does-masturbation-affect-my-cd4-count","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/8410","title":{"rendered":"Does masturbation affect my CD4 count?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello,<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for your email.<\/p>\n<p>Both of your CD4 counts are very good. To really know if your CD4 count is dropping you would need to see the trend over a few results. This is because CD4 counts can fluctuate, and the tests aren&#8217;t very accurate. You can read more about this on our <a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/cd4-faqs\">CD4 count FAQs page.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Masturbation doesn&#8217;t have any negative effects on CD4 counts or viral loads.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s great that you are keeping active and exercising regularly. I don&#8217;t have any specific recommendations but you can read more about diet and exercise in our guide to <a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/side\/exercise-and-staying-active\">HIV and your quality of life.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been HIV+ for 6 months. <\/p>\n<p>My first CD4 count was 740 back in July. Recently, it went down to 440 in Nov. But my Viral load improved from 45000 to 38000. <\/p>\n<p>What does this mean? <\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t started medication yet. <\/p>\n<p>I was masturbating regularly daily. Does masturbation have anything to do with CD4 count\/viral load? <\/p>\n<p>Since my last test results, I have completely stopped masturbating. Will this help or things worse? <\/p>\n<p>I exercise daily 40-45 minutes (at least 5 days\/week). My weight pretty much remains the same. I feel healthy and just normal otherwise. <\/p>\n<p>Do you have any particular exercise recommendations? I am doing treadmill 25-30 min for about 2 miles, weight lifting and dumbells 10-20 lbs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,9,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-cd4-and-viral-load","category-newly-diagnosed"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8410","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8410\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}