Hi, how are you doing?<\/p>\n
I am sorry to hear you have previously had a bad experience with this clinic. Do you have another one in your area that you could use?<\/p>\n
Restarting after a few years is fine. Have you had a recent viral load and CD4 test? and what treatment were you taking?<\/p>\n
As it has been a few years it would be advised to have a viral load test before treatment and a few weeks after. This will let you know that the treatment is working again.<\/p>\n
If you attend a different clinic do you have access to your medical notes\/history? if you do this will help show your doctor how you have been treated in the past and how best to manage treatment now.<\/p>\n
Do you know how your old clinic still runs? If there is a change of staff or policy it is possible that it may be a completely different experience of accessing your treatment. Being active about your treatment is very important and no clinic should be making this a bad experience for you.<\/p>\n
Josh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Hello, I tested positive in 2017 and started taking medication, then I stopped taking medication along the way in 2020 because of how I was treated at the clinic. I now want to take medication again but not at the same clinic, can you advise how can I do this or can I still visit the doctor to get prescription for the medication?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-access-to-treatment","category-adherence","category-all-topics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21194","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=21194"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21195,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21194\/revisions\/21195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}