Hi<\/p>\n
It is good you were diagnosed before your CD4 count dropped much lower and it is good that you are on treatment.<\/p>\n
The dizziness and strange dreams are likely to be efavirenz<\/a> which is one of the drugs in Atroiza. Efavirenz<\/a> can also cause nausea.Your doctor is right in that most people find this gets easier.<\/p>\n However, eye problems are not reported as a common side effect of efavirenz. They can be a symptom of other HIV related complications though.<\/p>\n Because your CD4 count is under 100 and you have only just started treatment, it is important that you talk to your doctor or clinic. This is because other HIV-related complications can occur at a low CD4 count. Some of these only show when starting treatment.<\/p>\n Please contact your clinic so they can go through the symptoms in more detail.<\/p>\n Are you taking other meds because your CD4 count is low? This is usually an antibiotic called co-trimoxazole (also called Septrin or Bactra) and sometimes TB meds. Your doctor should check you don’t have aide effects to these.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" i have been on Atroiza for a week now. I tested HIV positive last week and my CD4 count was 79. <\/p>\n I take it at 8pm. after taking it i must be in bed because i get dizzy and i have strange dreams which the doctor told me that in time i will be ok, now the problem i have now is last night after taking it my eyes were burning and im always nauseous. <\/p>\n Is this normal?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,29,49,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-opportunistic-infections","category-south-africa","category-starting-treatment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10198","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=10198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10198\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}