{"id":2390,"date":"2025-01-01T12:00:22","date_gmt":"2025-01-01T12:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moomango.co.uk\/guides\/?page_id=2390"},"modified":"2025-01-20T14:51:08","modified_gmt":"2025-01-20T14:51:08","slug":"changing-treatment-to-avoid-side-effects","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/changing\/changing-treatment-to-avoid-side-effects","title":{"rendered":"Changing treatment to avoid side effects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-15453\" src=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/ChangingJan2025COVER.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"144\" height=\"201\" \/>This guide is about changing treatment if your current ART stops working.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>However, you might want to change treatment to avoid side effects or to have a regime that is easier to take.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Changing to ART that is more tolerable is very common. Your meds needs to be ones you can tolerate.<\/p>\n<p>Newer drugs may also have become available since you last changed treatment.<\/p>\n<p>If adherence is difficult you might be able to use <a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/15361\">long-acting injectable ART<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"headache-blue\" src=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/files\/2011\/02\/headache-blue.png\" alt=\"Headache\" width=\"150\" height=\"173\" \/>Changing meds can improve your quality of life. It can still keep your viral load undetectable. If the change doesn&#8217;t make things better, you can always go back to your old combination.<\/p>\n<p>Your choices depend on your treatment history.<\/p>\n<p>This link has <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/category\/arvs\">information about every HIV drug<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The i-Base\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/side\">Guide to Side Effects<\/a>\u00a0has detailed information on changing treatments to avoid side effects.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This guide is about changing treatment if your current ART stops working. However, you might want to change treatment to avoid side effects or to have a regime that is easier to take. Changing to ART that is more tolerable &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":10,"menu_order":40,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-guides.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2390","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2390","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=2390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2390\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}