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Author Topic: Cool tools graph feature - notice any trends??  (Read 1825 times)

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Seadickrun

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Cool tools graph feature - notice any trends??
« on: January 18, 2009, 05:08:49 am »
So the other night I noticed the cool tools graph feature on this site and spent the time entering in cd4 counts for the years, hit the button and noticed a trend.  My t-cells hit a high point every September (the end of summer) and hit the year low point in December (the darkest dreariest here in Seattle).  This is the only year where the t-cells continued up in December and by coincidence, I put up my grow lights three weeks before my blood draw in December.  I have always known that I suffer from SAD (don't ask me why I still live in Seattle then) but I never had all my numbers in front of me in graph form.  Now I'm wondering what would happen to my t-cell count if I moved to LA, Phoenix, Honolulu, or Miami.

Has anyone else noticed any interesting trends from graphing out your labs?

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Re: Cool tools graph feature - notice any trends??
« Reply #1 on: January 18, 2009, 10:04:58 am »
I've been using the cool tool graph for years and I post my graph on website and a small version in my sig line here ;)

Quite clearly from my graph, you can see when I started to stay on my latest regimen 100% (even though it makes me puke 6 times a month) to make sure I stayed alive for my late partner. See how the graph changes dramatically after 12/2004?  ;D (it took me 10 yrs to reach my first undetectable)

Early this past year, my doctor became worried about a blip in my viral load - until I took him a graph of just the last two years. It showed that the blip in question was actually blip#5 in that 2 yr period and the smallest of the blips.

I wish I had all my test results from the last 16 yrs. instead of just the last decade; but I was so sick and the docs were so "sure" I wasn't going to make it back in the 90s that I never bothered to track those numbers. When I survived a second hopitalization in 1998, I finally began to think I just might make it a for more years  ;) and that's went I started keeping numbers.

Oh, and after playing with the numbers from my test results, I recently determined that my avg tcell count for the first 10-ish years was only 170; while it has risen to 227 avg over the last 6 years. WooHoo!
leatherman (aka Michael)

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Offline caregiver2008

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Re: Cool tools graph feature - notice any trends??
« Reply #2 on: January 18, 2009, 10:53:52 am »
Where is the graph?  Like to track hubby's CD4.

This site is informative and totally awesome!

Thanks for heads up about the graph.

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Re: Cool tools graph feature - notice any trends??
« Reply #3 on: January 18, 2009, 10:57:42 am »
Where is the graph?
http://www.aidsmeds.com/graphs/
that's under TREATMENT/GRAPH YOUR LABS from the grayish menu (home, all about hiv, prevention, etc) under the Poz logo and headers
leatherman (aka Michael)

We were standing all alone
You were leaning in to speak to me
Acting like a mover shaker
Dancing to Madonna then you kissed me
And I think about it all the time
- Darren Hayes, "Chained to You"

Offline caregiver2008

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Re: Cool tools graph feature - notice any trends??
« Reply #4 on: January 18, 2009, 10:59:58 am »
Thanks Leatherman!  ;)

 


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