{"id":19655,"date":"2022-05-05T10:10:10","date_gmt":"2022-05-05T10:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=19655"},"modified":"2022-05-05T10:19:56","modified_gmt":"2022-05-05T10:19:56","slug":"19655","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/19655","title":{"rendered":"Should I be taking Atripla in the morning?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi there<\/p>\n<p>Congratulation on your pregnancy &#8211; and thanks for sending your Q.<\/p>\n<p>It is good that you contacted us because Atripla need to be taken before you go to bed. It should never be taken in the morning.<\/p>\n<p>Please can you double-check that your medicine is Atripla as some other HIV meds ( ie that contain <a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/8851\"><strong>dolutegravir)<\/strong><\/a> need to be taken in the morning.<\/p>\n<p>Atripla contains <a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/734\"><strong>efavirenz<\/strong><\/a>. This causes mood changes that can be very disorientating in the day. It is much better that you are sleeping in the few hours after taking efavirenz.<\/p>\n<p>Also, try not to eat for the hour or two before taking efavirenz. This is because fat will increase drug levels and might make side effects worse.<\/p>\n<p>If you still have trouble when you take you meds at night, please ask your doctor about changing to use dolutegravir-based ART instead.<\/p>\n<p>Please also let your doctor know what happened in case they didn&#8217;t realise what hey told you.<\/p>\n<p>best wishes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am 15 weeks pregnant and recently started taking Atripla; my doctor recommended that I take it in the morning but the side effects are interfering with my work. Is it advisable to take it night or will the side effects subside with time?<\/p>\n<p>I feel very drowsy and sleepy after taking them. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7,19,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adherence","category-all-topics","category-pregnancy","category-starting-treatment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19655","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=19655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19655\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}