{"id":20677,"date":"2022-12-20T17:48:30","date_gmt":"2022-12-20T17:48:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=20677"},"modified":"2022-12-20T17:54:47","modified_gmt":"2022-12-20T17:54:47","slug":"will-anaesthesia-for-weight-loss-surgery-affect-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/20677","title":{"rendered":"Will anaesthesia for weight loss surgery affect ART"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi there<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for your question.<\/p>\n<p>Your HIV meds will not be affected by\u00a0anaesthesia, especially as you won&#8217;t need to worry about taking your meds as the long-acting injections will cover the period of surgery.<\/p>\n<p>Although you didn&#8217;t ask about this, most surgery includes a consent form where you list any medications you are taking. This would involve disclosing that you are HIV positive.<\/p>\n<p>I mention this because Turkey might not have experience of HIV and this might be a problem. It might be worth anonymously contacting them to ask about their policies on HIV first.<\/p>\n<p>This sounds liek a major operation and one reason not to travel abroad is that any complications might be much more difficult after you return home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am considering weight loss surgery in Turkey.<\/p>\n<p>Do I need to worry about anaesthesia and my ART? I am on the Bi-monthly injection which is going well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-drug-interactions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20677","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=20677"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20681,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20677\/revisions\/20681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}