{"id":11864,"date":"2016-08-23T14:12:35","date_gmt":"2016-08-23T14:12:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=11864"},"modified":"2016-08-25T09:53:25","modified_gmt":"2016-08-25T09:53:25","slug":"how-accurate-do-i-need-to-be-with-the-time-i-take-my-meds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/11864","title":{"rendered":"How accurate do I need to be with the time I take my meds?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi<\/p>\n<p>In general, it is good advice to aim for the same time each day. this is because getting in a routine or habit will help you remember.<\/p>\n<p><strong>When you first start treatment<\/strong>, aim for the same time every day. During this time &#8211; when viral load is still coming down &#8211; you still have a &#8220;window period&#8221; of an hour either side when the dose will be fine.<\/p>\n<p>So if you usually take meds at 9 pm and sometimes only remember at 10 pm &#8211; this will all be fine.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Once your viral load is undetectable<\/strong>, some combinations have a bigger window than others. For example, with Atripla (efavirenz\/tenofovirDF\/FTC), the window is at least a few hours. This is because all three of these meds keep good drug levels past the 24 hours needed for a once-daily drug.<\/p>\n<p>So with Atripla, the normal 10 pm dose could be taken any time from 7 pm to 1 am the next day without any worry.<\/p>\n<p>It is still good to aim for the same time though, just to keep a good habit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am just starting treatment and want to know how accurate I need to be with the timing of my meds. What if I am 30 minutes late?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7,39,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adherence","category-all-topics","category-starting-treatment","category-support"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11864","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=11864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11864\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}