Hi<\/p>\n
First option is to see whether there any way to get a few days meds – even \u00a0just for the Truvada? This might depend on the country where you are travelling.<\/p>\n
If you are in a city in a\u00a0high income country with public healthcare, some HIV clinics or community organisations might be able to find you a couple of days of meds. If you are travelling in a low income country, generic meds might be very inexpensive.<\/p>\n
As this is just for a few days, it would be okay to focus of getting\u00a0the Truvada which might be easier to get now that PrEP is more widely available.<\/p>\n
If getting more meds is not possible, then missing the 2-3 days is likely to be okay, but has a small chance of drug resistance. This is perhaps only a 5% (1 in 20) chance.<\/p>\n
Some doctors might recommend taking meds on alternate days to stretch the meds you have to cover this. For example if you only have 3 days meds to cover 6 days then alternative each day – one day on meds, one day off – might keep drug levels of the meds in Truvada high enough to reduce the risk of resistance.<\/p>\n
You might want to contact\u00a0your doctor by email or phone to check this. i-Base are not doctors – this information is just based on theoretical ways to minimise risk.<\/p>\n
Having to miss a few days does\u00a0happen to lots of people and most are okay, but telling your doctor about this when you get back is also a good idea in case additional monitoring is needed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I am taking Truvada and raltegravir. I just started taking them about a month ago. My last cd4 count a month ago was 210 and my viral load was 110,000 . I am traveling and only have enough medication for a couple more days. I have more meds arriving in about a week but there will likely be a couple days in between. What should I do?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adherence","category-all-topics","category-resistance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11954","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=11954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11954\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}