Question
Can I take glutathione and collagen alongside TLD?
26 May 2023. Related: All topics, Drug interactions.
I’m on TLD. Is it safe to take oral glutathione supplements with collagen etc?
Answer
Hi, how are you doing?
Yes. It is safe to take both glutathione and collagen alongside TLD. There is no interaction between these supplements and your HIV treatment.
Josh.
Hello Ellen and thanks for getting in touch.
I am very sorry to hear you have adverse effects.
Please discuss this with your doctor.
Sometimes certain deficiencies like vitamin D can cause the darkening of the skin.
Your doctor should investigate and prescribe medication accordingly.
Please don’t take supplements over the counter as they might interact with Dovato.
I’m currently taking dovato and undetectable but my issue is that my skin is getting darker each day and I’m thinking of taking skin supplements to help with my skin. Will that be an issue for me?
Hi Sean, there is no evidence that anyone taking effective ARVs has any benefit from taking gluathione but it also doesn’t do any harm. The use of antioxidant supplements was mainly talked about over 25 years ago in the last century, before there was effective HIV treatment.
I heard that if you are taking ARVs, you are not allowed to take glutathione? Would this harm your body?
Hi Jake, no you do not need to be worried. Occasionally missing a dose is not going to risk your treatment not working.
Do you think there has been a reason you have missed 3 doses in the last 2 weeks?
The treatment being new will not change the risk of missed doses. You are still robustly undetectable and it will take more than a week of continuously missed doses for your viral load to rebound. Resistance is a rare thing to happen and will require you to miss many more doses in a row for you to be at risk.
hi i have been taking my arvs for around ten years now i had been taking TLE (efavirenz) and just changed my meds to TLD last January of this year. I have been undetected for a few years now. however, as I was counting my pills I found out I missed 3 doses of my medications for the last two weeks. Should i be worried? especially that I am new to this new meds? also last January I missed a dose. I am just worried I might develop resistance to the new medications I am taking