Hi, how are you?<\/p>\n
I am sorry to hear you are feeling so anxious.<\/p>\n
It is great that your viral load is being suppressed. This shows that your treatment is working. You also have a healthy CD4 count showing that HIV is not having an impact on your immune system\/health.<\/p>\n
It is great that you restarted taking your pills. What time of the day are you taking them? Triumeq contains a drug called dolutegravir. This is a drug that can cause problems sleeping.<\/p>\n
Taking Triumeq in the morning can help prevent these side effects.<\/p>\n
Have you noticed any other symptoms aside from the swollen lymph nodes e.g., pain, fever, runny nose?<\/p>\n
You have mentioned weight loss. Do you know how much? You have said that you are in a more active job. It is likely that this job will have caused some weight loss. Has anything else changed e.g., eating less\/more, changing what foods you eat?<\/p>\n
Josh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I have been taking Triumeq for about 10 months, since my diagnosis and my last doctor’s appointment in December was good, everything was fine. I started a new job where i\u2019m more active and in a dryer environment. I stopped taking my medication for about 5 weeks because they would make me stay up long nights and sleep past my alarms at work and i was getting in trouble for being late. <\/p>\n
My doctor rescheduled my appointment from March to July and I started taking my pills again but i\u2019ve noticed 2 swollen lymph nodes in my neck and i\u2019m losing a lot of weight. I\u2019m a big dude (6\u20197 340lbs) so me being able to feel my collar bone or my stomach is a lot smaller is not typical. I got my labs done back in April and I have a Viral Load of 379 which is a lot better from December (57,000) but they didn\u2019t do my CD4 count because it\u2019s not close to my appointment date but in December it was 538. <\/p>\n
I\u2019m just scared something is wrong and I can\u2019t be seen for another 2 months. How do I calm myself down from having the worst anxiety ever?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7,9,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adherence","category-all-topics","category-cd4-and-viral-load","category-living-with-hiv-long-term"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22159","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=22159"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22160,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22159\/revisions\/22160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}