{"id":11514,"date":"2016-07-04T12:59:50","date_gmt":"2016-07-04T12:59:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=11514"},"modified":"2016-07-04T12:59:50","modified_gmt":"2016-07-04T12:59:50","slug":"is-there-an-interaction-between-my-hiv-meds-and-viagra-sildenafil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/11514","title":{"rendered":"Is there an interaction between my HIV meds and Viagra (sildenafil)?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for your question.<\/p>\n<p>The best way to look for drug interactions is to use the free online resource at:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hiv-druginteractions.org\">www.hiv-druginteractions.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This lets you select your HIV meds in on column and the other drugs, vitamins or supplements in the next coloum. This produces an infividual report on the interactions with an explanation.<\/p>\n<p>For example, there is a potential interaction between ritonavir and Viagra. But because the ritonavir dose is only 100 mg, you can still use both together.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hiv-druginteractions.org\/downloads\/ajd45jg-4er5-67oy-ur43-009ert.pdf?interaction_ids%5B%5D=69947&amp;interaction_ids%5B%5D=68255&amp;interaction_ids%5B%5D=69924\">hiv-druginteractions.org report for interaction between Viagra and ritonavir<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The direction of the interaction is that Viagra levels are increased, so the recommendation is to use a lower dose. Only use one 25 mg Viagra dose in any 48 hour period.<\/p>\n<p>The interaction means that even though you are only taking 25 mg, you will be getting\u00a0Viagra levels similar to a higher dose.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi Thanks for your question. The best way to look for drug interactions is to use the free online resource at: www.hiv-druginteractions.org This lets you select your HIV meds in on column and the other drugs, vitamins or supplements in &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-drug-interactions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11514","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=11514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11514\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}