{"id":1817,"date":"2024-11-01T12:00:57","date_gmt":"2024-11-01T12:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moomango.co.uk\/guides\/?page_id=1817"},"modified":"2024-11-22T20:39:35","modified_gmt":"2024-11-22T20:39:35","slug":"can-i-stop-art","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/starting\/can-i-stop-art","title":{"rendered":"Can I stop ART?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Once you are taking ART it is best to keep taking it<\/strong><strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Stopping ART will cause your viral load to increase.<\/p>\n<p>Within a few weeks it is likely to be detectable again and can even be back to pre-ART levels. Staying off ART will then start to reduce your CD4 count.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Each time you stop there is a small risk of drug resistance.<\/li>\n<li>Each time you stop it can take longer to become undetectable again.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>If you decide to stop<\/h2>\n<p><strong>If you do want to stop ART, please speak to your doctor first.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>They can give you advice on how to do this safely, They can also monitor your CD4 count and viral load \u00a0more closely.<\/p>\n<h2>Stopping ART as part of a research study<\/h2>\n<p>Some research studies include having to stop ART for a short time.<\/p>\n<p>In cure-related studies this break is called an analytic treatment interruption (ATI).<\/p>\n<p>These studies usually involve very close monitoring, for example, having CD4 and viral load tests every week.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15878\" src=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/tabs.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"514\" height=\"137\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/tabs.png 514w, https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/tabs-300x80.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 514px) 100vw, 514px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once you are taking ART it is best to keep taking it. Stopping ART will cause your viral load to increase. Within a few weeks it is likely to be detectable again and can even be back to pre-ART levels. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":1547,"menu_order":12,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-guides.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1817","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1817"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17687,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1817\/revisions\/17687"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}