Hello,<\/p>\n
Thanks for your email.<\/p>\n
CD4 counts fluctuate. They\u00a0go up and down.\u00a0For example, CD4 counts are lower when you first wake up and higher later in the day.\u00a0There is not a big difference between a result of 270 and 300.<\/p>\n
Do you get your viral load checked at the clinic? When you are on treatment checking your viral load is a good way to know whether treatment is working well or not. If your CD4 count is not increasing, or it is going down, it’s important to know whether your treatment is working properly. A viral load test will be able to check this. If treatment is working well your viral load should be less than 50.<\/p>\n
If you don’t have access to viral load tests it is important to keep checking your CD4 count regularly. If it does continue to decrease you may need to change treatment because this could be a sign that you have some drug resistance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
My CD4 count was 300 in Nov 2012, that was when I started ARVs. <\/p>\n
I found out I was HIV+ in Sep 2012. <\/p>\n
My CD4 count dropped to 270 in Aug 2013. I take my meds regularly. Is it common for CD4 counts to drop and what can I do to make it better?<\/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-9353","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\/9353","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=9353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9353\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}