Viral Load

[atulkumar]

My Viral Load last year in the month of march was 172000 and this year in recent report its 175000.
CD4 T Cells Percentage is 24, and CD4 T Cells Absolute is 527
CD8 T Cells Percentage is 55, and CD8 T Cells Absolute is 1.213
CD3 T Cells Percentage is 81, and CD3 T Cells Absolute is 1,805
Platelet Count 343
Haemoglobin, blood 15.7
WBC 7,800

My Doctor this time told me to start a ARV. So i just need a help from you is it right time to start ARV or shall I wait.

[Teak]

Viral load to increase? You don't want your viral load to increase you want you viral load to become undetectable.

[Mbano]

According to your CD4 i think you don need to start ARV.
I think their is a drugs which will help your Viral Load to increase.

[buttlebee]

i agree with teak...your t cells are all good and the percentage is also good.  I have been positive(diagnosed) in 1991 and did not go onto Haart till bout a year and a half ago....my doctor says im a genetic freak...lol.  For me the thing that made me go on meds was the constant small oportunistic infections..dematitis....sinus....fungal infections etc.which i had never suffered before hiv..and i was just over my face falling off every second week due to the dermo...lol  If you feel healthy in yourself and you are looking after yourself..eg eating right,exercising and omitting stresses from your life and have regular check ups you will know when it is right...and every hiv doctor i have ever been to has there own school of thought, if ya know what i mean....im not a doctor but have lived with the "lurge" as i call it for almost 18 yrs...b true to yourself...meditate and love the life you lead.
Peace out
Pj xx

[Teak]

With your CD4 count there is no rush to start HAART at this time. The time to start is totally up to you.