{"id":10188,"date":"2014-09-16T14:42:15","date_gmt":"2014-09-16T14:42:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=10188"},"modified":"2015-05-07T11:26:44","modified_gmt":"2015-05-07T11:26:44","slug":"will-switching-from-tribuss-to-trivenz-give-me-efavirenz-side-effects-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/10188","title":{"rendered":"Will switching from Tribuss to Trivenz give me efavirenz side effects again?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for your question.<\/p>\n<p>Your health team are giving you good advice and there is no risk from switching.<\/p>\n<p>Both Tribuss and Trivenz are generic formulations of <a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/1561\">Atripla<\/a>. They contain the same active medicines in the same proportions. They are all equally good at treating HIV and they all have similar side effects.<\/p>\n<p>Switching from one manufacturer to another should not mean you get the initial side effect again.<\/p>\n<p>In the UK, generic ARVs are used if they save the health service money. Approximately 70-80% of all prescriptions in the NHS in the UK are for generic meds.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks also for the nice feedback which is appreciated. We also have an <a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/feedback\/\">online feedback form<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Hearing how the service works is really important for us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My medical aid want to change my ARV supply from Tribuss to Trivenz because it is cheaper. <\/p>\n<p>I was diagnosed a year ago and was put on tribuss ever since. The only problems I had with tribuss was when I took it for the first time, I went through a lot of side effects and I am just afraid that I will have to go through the same experience when changing medications. <\/p>\n<p>Tribuss also brought my life back to normality after a very serious illness that is the reason I do not want to agree with this decision. <\/p>\n<p>I also want to send my thanks from South Africa for all the good advice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,10,38,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-changing-treatment","category-side-effects","category-south-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10188\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}