Low Lymphocytes Late Seroconversion

Here's a taste of what TheBody.com has to offer on this topic:

Ask the Experts

Low Absolute Lymphocytes

I was put on ARVs soon after I suffered a severe seroconversion illness two and a half years ago. When I started therapy my viral load was 750,000 and my CD4+ was 129. A few months later I was undetectable and has remained that way. Up until...

Response from Gerald Pierone, M.D.

AIDS Research and Treatment Center of the Treasure Coast

I guess that I would shrug my shoulders too. There is so much unexplainable variation in CD4 cells, CD8 cells, and lymphocytes that sometimes what looks like a pattern is actually random motion. If you added two more data points over the next 6... Read more »

Anemia and late seroconversion? (resubmitted form the Fatigue and Anemia Forum)

Dr. Bob: I tested HIV negative at 3 months via a rapid test that used my saliva. I also found out... Read more »

Response from Robert J. Frascino, M.D. »

Anemia and late seroconversion?

Dr. Bob: I tested HIV negative at 3 months via a rapid test that used my saliva. I also found out... Read more »

Response from Robert J. Frascino, M.D. »

Go to Ask the Experts »

Articles

HIV in Black Women: It's Not About Men on the Down Low

In the late 1990s and early 2000s, media hype about men on the so-called down low prompted considerable finger-pointing in the Black community. A series of high-profile newspaper and magazine articles were written in response to a widely... Read more »

U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Socioeconomic Differences in the Impact of HIV Infection on Workforce Participation in France in the Era of Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy

In the current study, the authors "sought to measure the difference in employment rates between HIV-seropositive and HIV-seronegative persons and to establish whether this difference varied according to the HIV-infected persons' socioeconomic... Read more »

Treatment in Seroconversion Maintains HIV-Specific Immune Responses Similar to Long-Term Slow Progressors

Recent studies by Hocqueloux et al suggest that long-term control of viraemia is possible after discontinuation of prolonged ART initiated at seroconversion. 1 This study compared a cohort of 15 long-term non-progressors (LTNPs) with spontaneously... Read more »

Low CD4 Count Linked to Higher Heart Attack Risk With HIV

A latest CD4 count below 200 raised the risk of acutemyocardial infarction (MI, or heart attack) in a largestudy of people with HIV, regardless of what otherheart risk factors those people had. 1 A viral load above100,000 copies also made a heart... Read more »

Connect With Others

low Lymphocyte count

Posted by Anonymous

In July I had unprotected oral sex. I had a blood test 7 weeks after hiv neg.
My Lymphocyte count was 15 norm 18-47. In 1998 my Lymphocyte count was 26.

With a neg test after 7 weeks am I at low risk to have a pos. test @ 6months.

Read more »

A Dr. Gallant update of the late seroconversion...

Posted by Anonymous

Heres and update of what Dr. Gallants said about the whole set up story (i think it was a setup, right?) of the late seroconversion.

Dr. gallantWhy did you answer that question? All of us in the Window period are now absolutely petrified about late... Read more »

Late seroconversions

Posted by Anonymous, 3 Replies

Hello out there

I see alot of paranoia about these so called "late seroconversions" Yes, Julio has had a string of posts (1998) that has obviously shaken everybody up. However let's use some reason here. If in fact he had gone to so many doctors and... Read more »

So WHAT does cause late seroconversion??

Posted by Anonymous, 1 Reply

People are saying that it is definitely possible for someone to seroconvert later than the 4 or 6 week guideline.

So what causes this? What diseases? What conditions?? Read more »

Connect on Our Bulletin Boards »

Tools

My Health Tracker

Assess Your Risk for HIV

Find Local HIV/AIDS Services

Resource Centers

Guides for People With HIV

View All of Our Guides >>