{"id":23016,"date":"2024-04-01T15:14:31","date_gmt":"2024-04-01T15:14:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=23016"},"modified":"2024-04-18T21:00:53","modified_gmt":"2024-04-18T21:00:53","slug":"can-i-use-hiv-and-herpes-meds-at-the-same-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/23016","title":{"rendered":"Can I use HIV and herpes meds at the same time?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">Hi there<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Please don&#8217;t worry about this.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">There are no problems from taking HIV and herpes treatments at the same time.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Please just take your HIV meds as normal, and the herpes treatments the way the doctor recommended. There are no drug interactions.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Sometimes sitting in warm salted water for 5 mins in the morning and evening can also keep the area clean and help the lesions to heal faster.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">I hope you are feeling better soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am a 23 year old male. I am HIV positive and on therapy. I am taking dolutegravir and emtricitabine\/Tenofovir DF. I am also experiencing genital herpes ulcers around my anal area, and I am using mupirucin ointment. <\/p>\n<p>I just wanna know:<br \/>\n&#8211; is it safe to take acyclovir therapy for 5 days?<br \/>\n&#8211; And if it is safe, will it affect my hiv therapy?<br \/>\n&#8211; and is if safe to stop the therapy after five days when finishing the antiviral (acyclovir)? Is there a special technique to follow or do I need gradually to stop the medication, to not cause any interruptions to my arv therapy?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,13,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-complications-and-coinfections","category-drug-interactions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23016","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=23016"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23187,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23016\/revisions\/23187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}