{"id":17491,"date":"2021-08-18T18:27:37","date_gmt":"2021-08-18T18:27:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=17491"},"modified":"2021-08-18T18:27:37","modified_gmt":"2021-08-18T18:27:37","slug":"my-blood-sugar-levels-have-increased-on-biktarvy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/17491","title":{"rendered":"My blood sugar levels have increased on Biktarvy&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<p>Hi there<\/p>\n<p>Like most other HIV meds Biktarvy can increase levels of blood sugar in some people.<\/p>\n<p>These changes are best monitored by your doctor.<\/p>\n<p>However, based on changing from one band to another, your changes might be much less than 15%. For example, your previous reading might have been 149 and the latest reading only 151.<\/p>\n<p>If your doctor decides that Biktarvy might be linked, this might involve switching to a different combination, which should be easy. Changing the timing is unlikely to help.<\/p>\n<p>Great that you are already doing everything you can to manage these levels by exercise.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi, I am diabetic. I just switched to Biktarvy and my blood sugar has gone up to 150-180 from 115-150 &#8211; about a 15% rise. I read that Biktarvy may cause blood sugar to rise. I didn&#8217;t expect it to go up this much.<\/p>\n<p> Is there anything I can do to mitigate this? I&#8217;m already disciplined with a very strict diet. I exercise by aerobic fast walking, 2 miles per day. <\/p>\n<p>Will changing the timing of the Biktarvy pill help?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-side-effects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17491","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=17491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17491\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}