{"id":15054,"date":"2019-04-03T13:52:35","date_gmt":"2019-04-03T13:52:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=15054"},"modified":"2019-04-03T13:52:35","modified_gmt":"2019-04-03T13:52:35","slug":"im-pregnant-do-i-need-to-take-medication","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/15054","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m pregnant, do I need to take medication?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks for getting in touch.<\/p>\n<p>What your doctor has told you is correct, you need to be on treatment. This is important because you&#8217;re pregnant. Its the treatment, so ARVs that will reduce the risk of transmission to your baby.\u00a0If you don&#8217;t use ARVs you risk infecting your baby. Please see here for more info: <a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/pregnancy\">https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/pregnancy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>When someone starts medication, especially if it contains efavirenz its common to have side effects. These side effects should go within a few weeks. However, if you&#8217;re really struggling with your current treatment, you should talk to your doctor about changing.<\/p>\n<p>Though this can be a difficult period, its very important that you use ARVs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m 6 months pregnant. Last month I started medication. I didn&#8217;t feel well when I was taking it, so I stopped. My doctor told me that I need to take my medication. I started medication again on Sunday. I woke up and vomited, I really don&#8217;t feel well and want to stop. Can I stop? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adherence","category-all-topics","category-pregnancy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15054","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=15054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15054\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}