{"id":12824,"date":"2017-03-13T08:55:40","date_gmt":"2017-03-13T08:55:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=12824"},"modified":"2017-03-13T08:55:40","modified_gmt":"2017-03-13T08:55:40","slug":"im-taking-atripla-and-two-other-nukes-is-this-ok","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/12824","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m taking Atripla, and two other nukes, is this OK?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks for getting in touch.<\/p>\n<p>Nasal congestion isn&#8217;t a common side effect when taking ARV&#8217;s. Therefore, this is something that you should talk to your doctor about.<\/p>\n<p>The cotri that you&#8217;re being given is common practice owing to your CD4 being below 350. Its important that you take this as it will help prevent infections.<\/p>\n<p>It sounds like you&#8217;re being give a lot of ARVs. Have you been told why you need the Atripla plus another two nukes? I&#8217;m asking because usually if someone is on Atripla, that&#8217;s all they will take. This is because Atripla is a fixed dosed combination.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> I am a 32 male, started my meds 5-6 weeks ago (cd4 190, vl 57000) with lamivudine (10am and10pm), tenofovir, and atripla which i take every 10pm. Then I take cotri at 2pm to prevent any bacterial infection. Is this correct?<\/p>\n<p>My 2nd question is that since the beginning of my meds, i started to have daily nasal congestion that often come and go. Fyi i never have any allergy beforehand. Is this part of the side effect of the meds or is there something else?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,9,38,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-cd4-and-viral-load","category-side-effects","category-starting-treatment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12824","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=12824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12824\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}