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 Elvis, PEP can be taken with or without water. This will have no impact on the effectiveness of your treatment.
Please see here for more information about PEP: https://i-base.info/qa/factsheets/pep-faq
Hi m in the pep treatment so yesterday I was not having water so I decided to swallow reydin pills without water then 5min later I find water to drink it so my consen is dat this pills that I swallowed worked or not
Hi Cyabonga, thank you for clarifying. If this means you have only missed one dose of PEP (Reydin) this is not going to have a significant impact on how well it works. You can continue your course as normal.
For more information about PEP please see here: https://i-base.info/qa/factsheets/pep-faq
Hi no i am not hiv positive i am only taking these as PEP