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If the question is about stopping your medication completely, then the virus will will quickly come back to high levels. Then your CD4 count will fall. Over a few weeks, your viral load and CD4 count would be back to where it was when you first started treatment.

If the question is about missing some doses of medication, then the risk is that you develop resistance to your meds. You need good levels of all the drugs to fight HIV effectively. When you are late with a dose, or if you miss it completely, the virus can develop resistance.

Resistance is where the structure of HIV changes a little so the drugs no longer work.

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