{"id":9529,"date":"2013-12-13T13:21:59","date_gmt":"2013-12-13T13:21:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=9529"},"modified":"2020-07-25T15:33:42","modified_gmt":"2020-07-25T15:33:42","slug":"my-cd4-is-955-whats-my-life-expectancy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/9529","title":{"rendered":"My CD4 is 955, what&#8217;s my life expectancy?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi,<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for your email. Please note that advocates at i-Base are not doctors and we have no formal medical training.<\/p>\n<p>A CD4 count of 955 is very good and suggests your immune system is strong. You can <a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/starting\/two-essential-blood-tests\">read about CD4 count and viral load monitoring here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Are you receiving treatment for your TB?<\/p>\n<p>Lots of people ask us about life expectancy. With ARVs, started when you need them (usually with a CD4 count around 350) HIV+ people can have a very good life expectancy, similar to HIV negative people. There are <a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/category\/life-expectancy\">lots of previous questions about this here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am HIV+. My last CD4 955. vL 35000.<\/p>\n<p>I am not on ARVs and I am also T.B. patient.<\/p>\n<p>What is my life expectancy?<\/p>\n<p>plz answer me doctor plz<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,13,24,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cd4-and-viral-load","category-complications-and-coinfections","category-life-expectancy","category-living-with-hiv-long-term"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9529","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=9529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9529\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}