{"id":12528,"date":"2016-12-14T14:17:21","date_gmt":"2016-12-14T14:17:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=12528"},"modified":"2016-12-15T16:01:08","modified_gmt":"2016-12-15T16:01:08","slug":"i-stopped-meds-can-i-begin-taking-them-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/12528","title":{"rendered":"I stopped meds, can I begin taking them again?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks for getting in touch.<\/p>\n<p>Firstly, HIV meds are very good and very safe. They work really well. Even if you have trouble with side effects with one combination, it should be\u00a0easy to use a different\u00a0one.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Immune boosters&#8221; are just an advertising scan. Although companies might claim this, there is no evidence that any of them work for HIV &#8211; or anything else.<\/p>\n<p>These products will not help your CD4 count, nor your HIV. The only thing that will is ARVs.<\/p>\n<p>Having a month of meds isn&#8217;t ideal, but please talk to your doctor about this if you are worried.<\/p>\n<p>It is great that you are thinking about restarting as the combination is likely to\u00a0still work very well. For more info on restarting, please see this earlier answer:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/12271\">https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/12271<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I found out about my HIV status this year September I was then given arvs on the 18 of October I only used them for three weeks I then stop&#8230;.. It has been a month not taking them, will I become resistance to the treatment if I start using them next month? my cd4count is 327. Im scared if I start using them again I will get sick so I wanna know if I can start using them again or I should take immune boosters<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7,9,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adherence","category-all-topics","category-cd4-and-viral-load","category-starting-treatment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12528","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\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12528\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}