{"id":16275,"date":"2020-11-26T23:35:36","date_gmt":"2020-11-26T23:35:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=16275"},"modified":"2020-11-27T16:02:02","modified_gmt":"2020-11-27T16:02:02","slug":"can-i-make-my-meds-last-longer-my-missing-one-dose-a-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/16275","title":{"rendered":"Can I make my meds last longer by missing one dose a week?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi there<\/p>\n<p>This sounds like a good idea.<\/p>\n<p>If you already know your meds wont quite last until your next prescription, it is safe to miss one dose a week to make your meds cover the missing days.<\/p>\n<p>It is better to do this than to have to go for several days without meds at the end.<\/p>\n<p>It is also a good thing to do if you want to have a small emergency supply for the future.<\/p>\n<p>All three drugs in Atripla (including generics) have long half-lives. This means that with daily dosing, at the end of each 24-hour dose there are still high enough levels to cover you for most or all of the next day.<\/p>\n<p>Several studies showed that so long as you are undetectable, missing one or two doses every week will not effect\u00a0on your viral load.<\/p>\n<p><b>How strict should I be about the time I take my HIV medication?<br \/>\n<\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/1801\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/1801&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1606518310924000&amp;usg=AFQjCNENPwr1Yg3z-S-C3kV3yHBIqrF2cw\">https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/1801<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>FOTO study<br \/>\n<\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/library.iasociety.org\/AbstractView.aspx?confID=2009&amp;abstractId=3046\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/library.iasociety.org\/AbstractView.aspx?confID%3D2009%26abstractId%3D3046&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1606518310924000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFotTUrQEiofexAlWBpouP41NI25Q\">https:\/\/library.iasociety.org\/<wbr \/>AbstractView.aspx?confID=2009&amp;<wbr \/>abstractId=3046<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Due of the current situation, the clinic give me 3 months of treatment (generic Atripla). But the bottle contains 28 pills so I decided to skip one pill every two weeks to cover the missing days. I can&#8217;t collect any more ARV&#8217;s until my next appointment.<\/p>\n<p>Is this gonna be okay and am I gonna stay  undetectable? Or will I be detectable again?<\/p>\n<p>Please I need your answer because my partner negative and i&#8217;m so worried about him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adherence","category-all-topics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16275","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16275\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}