{"id":11758,"date":"2016-08-01T15:51:49","date_gmt":"2016-08-01T15:51:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=11758"},"modified":"2016-08-01T15:51:49","modified_gmt":"2016-08-01T15:51:49","slug":"are-these-side-effects-from-heftenam-generic-atripla-normal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/11758","title":{"rendered":"Are these side effects from Heftenam (generic Atripla) normal?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi<\/p>\n<p>Heftenam is\u00a0a generic version of <a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/1561\">Atripla<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Many of the symptoms you mention could be related to efavirenz (one of the three drugs it contains). See<a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/side\/cns-side-effects\"> efavirenz side effects<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The antibiotics in Purbac can also could side effects including rash &#8211; so it is important that you talk to your doctor or clinic about how you feel.<\/p>\n<p>If you started treatment with a very low CD4 count (less than 100), these symptoms might related to other infections.<\/p>\n<p>If these are just side effects of efavirenz, they usually get better after a few weeks. But your doctor needs to decide if this is the case.<\/p>\n<p>The side effects do not mean the drugs are now working. If they continue you might need to use easier drugs for you though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi I just started taking Heftenam with Purbac and DS-24. I&#8217;ve been having side effects like nausea, fatigue serious dizziness headaches serious abdominal pain including ulcers and a few other things. Is my body rejecting the medication?\u00a0Is this\u00a0normal for the first month?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,38,49,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-side-effects","category-south-africa","category-starting-treatment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11758","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=11758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11758\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}