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Author Topic: Tested Positive on Jan 16 2024  (Read 18692 times)

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Offline Joebilly73

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Re: Tested Positive on Jan 16 2024
« Reply #50 on: August 17, 2024, 04:14:13 pm »
The doctor I am seeing is an infectious disease doctor .

I have been doing well otherwise, getting over a cold, it was much more milder then it’s been in the past, guess my treatment is to thank for that.

I really appreciate all the info. Thank you. I’ll check back in a month with an update.

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Re: Tested Positive on Jan 16 2024
« Reply #51 on: August 17, 2024, 05:57:21 pm »
Glad to hear you are otherwise okay and the cold wasn't too bad.

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I’ll check back in a month with an update.

👍Keep us posted.

You are only 6 months +- of starting treatment after an AIDS diagnosis and I am presuming from reading your posts you are not in your 20s or 30s. So if your update is no change (2-6%+-) or a relatively moderate improvement in CD4 % I would not be surprised.  I just don't want you to be disappointed or have false expectations, hopefully you will become less focused on CD4s with time.
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Re: Tested Positive on Jan 16 2024
« Reply #52 on: Yesterday at 07:23:50 pm »
Good Evening,

Just wanted to give an update.
September 2024
CD4% 5L
CD4 - 87L
RBC 4.19L (4.20 bottom of threshold)
Hemoglobin 13.0  (13.2 Bottom)

November 2024
CD4% 7L (Highest yet)
CD4 129L (Highest prior was a 147 in March 2024) since then it has been as low as 57.
RBC 3.83L
Hemoglobin 12.6

Overall I feel pretty good.

Any thoughts on why the RBC is down?

Thanks
Joe

 


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