{"id":12019,"date":"2016-09-10T15:48:44","date_gmt":"2016-09-10T15:48:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=12019"},"modified":"2016-09-12T00:02:39","modified_gmt":"2016-09-12T00:02:39","slug":"does-hiv-treatment-cause-arthralgia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/12019","title":{"rendered":"Does HIV treatment cause arthralgia?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi,<\/p>\n<p>Arthralgia means joint pain.<\/p>\n<p>Joint pain is common in people with HIV, and can have many causes. HIV can cause a variety of conditions which could cause joint pain. These include <a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/side\/peripheral-neuropathy\">peripheral neuropathy<\/a>, arthritis and various rheumatic problems. These are more common at lower CD4 counts.<\/p>\n<p>If your joint pain is related to HIV it may improve while on treatment. If you have been on treatment for a period of time and the pain hasn&#8217;t improved then it\u2019s important to get a diagnosis. If the joint pain needs separate treatment it is important to know the cause. Your doctor may refer you to a rheumatologist \u2013 a doctor who deals with joint problems.<\/p>\n<p>If this is painful, your doctor should refer you to a pain management specialist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi, Arthralgia means joint pain. Joint pain is common in people with HIV, and can have many causes. HIV can cause a variety of conditions which could cause joint pain. These include peripheral neuropathy, arthritis and various rheumatic problems. These &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,38,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-side-effects","category-starting-treatment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12019","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\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12019\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}