{"id":12721,"date":"2017-02-06T10:37:38","date_gmt":"2017-02-06T10:37:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=12721"},"modified":"2017-02-06T10:37:38","modified_gmt":"2017-02-06T10:37:38","slug":"can-i-restart-medication","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/12721","title":{"rendered":"Can I restart medication?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks for getting in touch.<\/p>\n<p>How long have you been off ARVs for? Do you know what your viral load and CD4 count were when you stopped medication?<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s no reason why you can&#8217;t go back to taking meds, this is actaully very important. This is because only ARVs can help your HIV.<\/p>\n<p>What you should do, is go and visit your doctor. It is your doctor who will need to do some blood tests and also see if you&#8217;ve developed resistance to the meds that you used to take. Once these have been done, they&#8217;ll be able to advice you what to take. Or you could of course contact us.<\/p>\n<p>With regards to getting sick, ARVs help your HIV. Its not being on them that causes problems for peoples health. This is explained at the following link, please see question 7:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/what-are-the-most-asked-questions\">https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/what-are-the-most-asked-questions<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I stopped my medication for HIV,  now I want to use it again. This is because I am loosing weight. What will happen to me,  am I going to get sick? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7,9,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adherence","category-all-topics","category-cd4-and-viral-load","category-life-expectancy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12721","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=12721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12721\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}