{"id":20239,"date":"2022-07-18T22:00:38","date_gmt":"2022-07-18T22:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=20239"},"modified":"2022-07-18T22:00:38","modified_gmt":"2022-07-18T22:00:38","slug":"will-arvs-still-work-if-i-have-not-used-them-for-a-while","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/20239","title":{"rendered":"Will ARVs still work if I have not used them for a while?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi, how are you doing?<\/p>\n<p>It is great that you want to restart your ARVs. How long were you off them?<\/p>\n<p>Is there a reason you stopped? and have you been able to talk to anyone about feeling scared?<\/p>\n<p>And do you know your current viral load and CD4 count?<\/p>\n<p>Hopefully restarting your medication will be fine and your body will respond. There is a chance that they might not work as well but you won&#8217;t know this until you try.<\/p>\n<p>Are you able to access a viral load test? After restarting, getting a viral load test a few weeks later will give you an idea if your ARVs are working.<\/p>\n<p>What ARVs were you taking?<\/p>\n<p>Josh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After I found out I am HIV positive I was scared and I took my pills for a year. I stopped after a year. I am scared and want to know if the ARVs are still going to work on my body? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7,9,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adherence","category-all-topics","category-cd4-and-viral-load","category-newly-diagnosed"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20239","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=20239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20239\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}