The HIV medications and it's wonders

I forgot to wrote about my latest readings because I was so busy with work and all, you know, Chinese New Year is approaching and everybody is rushing to finish off "old" work so not to bring into the new year.

I got my latest readings taken in December a little over a week ago, and I'm glad I'm doing well, after about 3 months plus on medication when my blood was taken.

My CD4 has shot up to 352 (Dec 2013) from 140 in Sept 2013, and VL of 350 copies (Dec 2013) down from 244,000 copies (Sept 2013).

It's quite a marvel - I know I can do this. Thus far, I have only missed 1 dose of daytime Combivir, largely because I was travelling and I couldn't recall eating it. It did freak me out though, and I didn't remember about it until it was time for next dose, and I was like, did I or did I not take the morning dose.

In summary, here's my history count:

 +--------------------------+-----+-------------+
| Date Blood Taken         | CD4 | VL (copies) |
+--------------------------+-----+-------------+
| Diagnosis - 5 March 2012 | 471 | 1,200,000   |
+--------------------------+-----+-------------+
| 13 July 2012             | 476 | 2,100,000   |
+--------------------------+-----+-------------+
| 6 Nov 2012               | 458 | na          |
+--------------------------+-----+-------------+
| 7 June 2013              | 306 | 244,000     |
+--------------------------+-----+-------------+
| 7 Aug 2013               | 99  | na          |
+--------------------------+-----+-------------+
| 26 Aug 2013              | 150 | 244,500     |
+--------------------------+-----+-------------+
| 15 Dec 2013              | 352 | 350         |
+--------------------------+-----+-------------+
|                          |     |             |
+--------------------------+-----+-------------+
NB: Note in August, I was down with a very high fever and the doctors were concerned I was having more than just fever. 
26 Aug reading is my baseline when I started taking Combivir + Efavirenz. 

Have a nice day everyone!

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