{"id":9044,"date":"2013-06-10T13:56:18","date_gmt":"2013-06-10T13:56:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=9044"},"modified":"2013-06-10T13:56:18","modified_gmt":"2013-06-10T13:56:18","slug":"is-this-a-viral-load-blip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/9044","title":{"rendered":"Is this a viral load blip?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi,<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for your email. The definition of a &#8216;viral load blip&#8217; is usually one detectable viral load test result- between 50 and 1000- which is preceded and followed by an undetectable viral load.<\/p>\n<p>If you were in the UK you would have your viral load re-tested the day you received this detectable result. If this is a blip your viral load would be undetectable on this confirmatory test. If the viral load was still above 50 then it is likely this would be a real viral load rebound. Did your doctor take more blood to do a re-test when you got this result?<\/p>\n<p>If your viral load is rebounding it is important that your doctor changes all of your HIV drugs. It is possible that you could have some resistance to the drugs in combivir and this is the reason why your viral load is not being controlled by either combination that you mentioned. But it&#8217;s important to get a confirmation viral load test before getting too worried or making any change in treatment.<\/p>\n<p>Please see this page about<a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/changing\/viral-load-blips\"> viral load blips<\/a> for more information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been on Combivir and Kaletra since November 2012 and my last results in March was as follows:<\/p>\n<p>CD4 &#8211; 394<br \/>\nVL &#8211; undetectable<\/p>\n<p>Another routine test for CD4 and VL was carried out in May and results in June came as follows:<\/p>\n<p>CD4 &#8211; 561<br \/>\nVL &#8211; 116<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday I had an appointment with my ID doctor and he said that most probably this could be a blip.<\/p>\n<p>Is this really a blip? Do blips happen so soon after a couple of months on treatment?<\/p>\n<p>Way back in 2012 I was on Combivir and Sustiva and this pattern happened again. Became UD after a couple of months, then VL started going up &#8211; first test 69, second test 175 &#8230; Doctor decided to change treatment at that time and put me on Kaletra but it seems that this is happening again.<\/p>\n<p>Kindly advise.<\/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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9044","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\/9044","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=9044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9044\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}