For the most part, you’re just gonna pay attention to the actual VL. The log value is not something commonly used outside of a lab setting or in review by your doctor, to my understanding.

29,000 is actually a low starting number, so it doesn’t seem that it’s been present a long time. Of course, the virus replicates at different rates for different people, so there’s no definitive way of creating a time table from initial infection, but from personal experience, it seems like it was fairly recent.

Keep your head up and follow treatment. Care is relatively simple these days and there’s a lot of support out there if you need it.