{"id":19958,"date":"2022-06-13T12:04:47","date_gmt":"2022-06-13T12:04:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=19958"},"modified":"2022-06-13T12:28:34","modified_gmt":"2022-06-13T12:28:34","slug":"is-loosing-weight-linked-to-tld","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/19958","title":{"rendered":"Is loosing weight linked to TLD?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi Judith, how are you doing?<\/p>\n<p>TLD is more associated with weight gain rather than loss. This is because TLD contains dolutegravir.<\/p>\n<p>How much weight have you lost? and where have you lost the weight? Do you know your current CD4 count and viral load?<\/p>\n<p>There are some older HIV medications that cause weight loss but these are not given commonly anymore. Have you been on any other HIV medication?<\/p>\n<p>Weight loss can be caused by a number of things other than HIV medication.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Increased exercise\/physical activity.<\/li>\n<li>Eating less.<\/li>\n<li>Stress.<\/li>\n<li>Other medications.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Have you noticed anything different in your lifestyle recently that may be the cause of your weight loss? If not, speaking to your doctor can help find a reason why you are losing weight.<\/p>\n<p>Josh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi I&#8217;m Judith, I am on TLD and constantly losing weight. What can I do to improve?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19958","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\/19958","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\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19958\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}