Even if you receive an AIDS diagnosis and your numbers recover to that of a healthy HIV + patient your AIDS diagnosis never goes away. My doctor explained it’s a way for other doctors to know how your disease has progressed and also useful for insurance companies.

@A myHIVteam Member she apologized for the confusion. She also said she doesn't use the term anymore. I found out I had HIV in the hospital. They were treating me my liver issues and kept me in the hospital for a week. I knew from the discharge paperwork, that I had wasting syndrome and thrush. But it was a while before I found out I had AIDS

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When I was diagnosed, my cd4 was 19. My dr said I had advanced HIV. I didn't figure out I had AIDS until I was already on antivirals and I was watching the poz life of patrick and he said he had Aids and his CD4 was higher than mine. I asked my Dr about it on my next appointment.

My understanding is that today's definition of AIDS is not the CD4 count but the number of opportunistic infections that you have. Also the viral load helps determine the diagnosis.

From my understanding if your cd4 count ever goes below 200 you get an AIDS diagnosis. (or if you get an opportunistic infection). It doesn't matter if your counts go back over 200 you are still classified as having AIDS which is the late state of HIV infection. Any others want to elaborate? It just means that there was more damage to your immune system. Hope this helps.