{"id":10885,"date":"2015-11-13T15:42:18","date_gmt":"2015-11-13T15:42:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=10885"},"modified":"2015-11-19T17:06:08","modified_gmt":"2015-11-19T17:06:08","slug":"ive-not-taken-arvs-for-a-week-can-i-go-back-to-my-usual-meds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/10885","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;ve not taken ARVs for a week, can i go back to my usual meds?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi,<\/p>\n<p>You should ask your clinic if they have resistance testing available. This will tell you if your old combination will still work against your HIV.<\/p>\n<p>If your clinic cannot do resistance testing you should take a viral load test before starting meds. Then again soon after starting them. If it has gone down or gone &#8216;undetectable&#8217; this will show that your meds are still effective.<\/p>\n<p>If not it is important to\u00a0change to a combination that is.<\/p>\n<p>You can find more<a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/changing\"> information on changing treatment<\/a> in our guide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been on ARVs for 4 years and recently I&#8217;ve been off them for the last week. Can I get back to my usual drugs?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5,7,9,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-access-to-treatment","category-adherence","category-all-topics","category-cd4-and-viral-load","category-changing-treatment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10885","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\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10885\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}