My T cells are 593.
Hmmmm....
Maybe you do not know. I am HIV+ and was diagnosed with AIDS in April 1994.
T cells are the eyes of your immune system. In laymen's terms....HIV comes in and attacks your T cells. It kills them and uses them as hosts to multiply. Well, My T cells dropped to 39 in 1995. Then I started taking Protease Inhibitors and they climbed to a whopping 120. They remained there....for a long time. In 2003 I started a new regiment of Protease Inhibitors and my T cells jumped above 200.
In 2005 they stopped manufacturing one of the medications I was taking. So I was forced to switch. Immediately my T cells jumped to 320. It appears that I gain 100 T cells a year.
A normal person has T cells between 800-1500 per cubic millimeter. Normal person as in health.
I am excited about my count...and admittedly I have felt healthier over the last few months. Hmmm...I am fighting a nasty cold though....but a cold that everyone else in Ocean County seems to have... So...perhaps I am normal.
Peace