Question
What happens when you stop Reydin?
2 February 2024. Related: Adherence, All topics, CD4 and viral load, Life expectancy, Newly diagnosed, Starting treatment.
What happens when you take one Reydin tablet and stop taking them?
Answer
Hi, how are you doing?
Are you HIV positive? and if so do you know your CD4 count and viral load?
Have you only taken one Reydin and then immediately stopped? If this is the case why did you stop treatment?
Reydin is used to suppress HIV and stop it having an impact on your immune system. When you stop taking Reydin it allows HIV to become active in the body and damage your CD4 cells. It also risk you passing on HIV to others.
This graph shows how CD4 count and viral load change with and without treatment.
If you have only taken this single tablet, there is unlikely to be any major outcome though it can risk some resistance to treatment. Not taking treatment will also cause a reduction in life expectancy.
Would you consider restarting treatment again?
Josh.
Hi Slindile, thanks I just replied to your Q by email, simon
HHi doc I have a question…I am hiv + , a mother to a negative 18 months baby girl I have been on my medication for almost 2 years and half now so it happened I traveled and forgot my medication at home now I’m scared to continue breastfeeding since it has been 5 days without consuming my meds
Hi Enzo – thanks – Reydin ia a generic version of an HIV combination called TLD:
https://i-base.info/guides/12423
It is very widely used to treat HIV.
Can someone with infection use reydin
Hi Bernice. thanks. You are asking several questions. It is very good that you are doing well on HIV meds and that you are looking after your health first. It is also a shame that your partner will not get tested so that he knows his status and can use meds if he is positive.
It is a shame though that this means you have stopped having sex. This is becasue HIV shouldn’t stop you having or wanting sex, but sometimes the shock of being diagnosed shows in different ways. This might be why you are eating much more – perhaps to get comfort from food. As well as getting enjoyment from eating perhaps putting on weight also helps you think less about sex. These are just guesses though, because your link them all together when you describe your situation.
These are all choice for you, but maybe talking about this with a counsellor or health worker could show you other options. These are your choices, so they are not good or bad as they depend on what you want to do and what you like doing.
If your partner looked after their own health better, do you think you would feel differently?
I am also using Reydin pills currently, but before they gave me diffrent ARV’s rather then Reydin. Since I discover my condition , I have never had sex with my partner because he refuse to get tested, I am fine with that because I must think about myself first, its been 2 years now. I gained a lot of weight especially on my belly and eat alot. My sex desire are nomore the same and dont even think of it.
Is there a problem to feel like that?