{"id":19444,"date":"2022-04-15T07:52:13","date_gmt":"2022-04-15T07:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=19444"},"modified":"2024-10-14T09:20:02","modified_gmt":"2024-10-14T09:20:02","slug":"my-clinic-changed-atroiza-to-luvigen-without-telling-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/19444","title":{"rendered":"My clinic changed Atroiza\u00a0to Luvigen without telling me&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\">Thanks for your question &#8211; and good that you got in touch.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">These are two different types for HIV treatment (ART) so your doctor should definitely have talked to you about this change.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">They are both generic versions of ART:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/12423\">https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/12423<\/a><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Atroza\u00a0uses <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/734\">efavirenz<\/a><\/strong> which is an older\u00a0drug.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Luvigen uses <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/8851\">dolutegravir<\/a><\/strong> which is more modern. This is better for most people.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The main difference is that Atroiza needed to be taken at night and Luvigen needs to be taken in the morning.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Please call your doctor and clinic and ask why they didn&#8217;t give you this information.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Please do not worry about your viral load. This is still very low and it might just have been a lab error.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">This will not have put your partner at any risk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was switched from atroiza to luvigen without nothing being explained? <\/p>\n<p>Should I be worried? <\/p>\n<p>My viral load was 103 in December 2021 which I didn\u2019t understand why because I have been mostly consistent and now more than ever after the results I haven\u2019t missed a single dose. <\/p>\n<p>Is it possible that my viral load is lower than 100. I\u2019m worried because I\u2019m sexually active and my partner and I haven\u2019t been using condoms because I\u2019m thinking I can\u2019t pass the infection to him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,10,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-changing-treatment","category-hiv-transmission"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19444","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=19444"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25176,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19444\/revisions\/25176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}