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Hi, my son Lucas is adopted. When we met him in the NICU he was getting prophylactic AZT and tested negative. A month after bringing home we had the test repeated and he had converted to HIV positive. When the test was repeated two weeks later his viral load had skyrocketed and he had some lymph node and spleen enlargement although his CD4 count was still normal. We started him on a cocktail of videx, viramune, and epivir 2 x day. The lymph nodes and spleen returned to normal, his CD4 count has always been normal, and his viral load became undetectable in a few months. It has been about a year that he has been undetectable (he's 21 mo old now). My question is, has anyone else had there viral load become undetectable? If you have, did it remain undetectable as long as you took your meds regularly?

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yes, compliance is a key factor;
if his virial load does become detectable, your i.d. doctor should test for drug resistance as a first step;
the good news is that there many new cdrugs on the horizon and many doctors say that hiv will become a managed disease like diabetes;
pfizer has a new drug which gets into healthy t- cells and prevents the virus from getting in
hop this helps
george

Thank you. Lucas was tested for drug resistance when he was first diagnosed. Luckily at that time he had no resistance. What is this new drug by pfizer?

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