vl

[lor325]

explaination how does viral loadeffect to disease process mine was 987,000, 248,000, and 119,000  at 6 months off meds UR

[Mary4now]

Its amazing how many of those buggers replicate..  I am visualizing my immune system battling the buggers....really cleaning em up.  Take care of you liver and help you immune system any way you can to do its job.  M4now

[Yellowfin]

Wow, I thought my vl of 19 million was high.  Maybe it is not as bad as I thought.  Just had a bx yesterday.

[charm27]

Just to make a comparison my VL was 75 million, your VL I was advised goes to 100 million.

It jumps all ove the place in 2000 it was 1 million , 6 mos before tx it was 8 million,
and 2 weeks before tx it went up 1 log to 75 million.

[FloridaMouse]

Viral load doesn't have any effect on the disease process.   The viral load is a pretty useless number when it comes to anything other than determining whether or not treatment is working.

Example:  I have a VERY load viral load (before starting the first round of treatment it was 90,000 and before starting the second round it was 260,000) and I have advanced liver disease.  I know people whose viral loads are in the millions and have hardly any damage.  So yeah, it's a p retty useless number as far as disease progressionis concerned.

Mouse