{"id":25609,"date":"2024-11-16T18:49:45","date_gmt":"2024-11-16T18:49:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=25609"},"modified":"2024-12-03T07:25:47","modified_gmt":"2024-12-03T07:25:47","slug":"switching-off-biktarvy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/25609","title":{"rendered":"Can I switch bictegravir to dolutegravir because of access in a new country?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello and thanks for this question.<\/p>\n<p>The regimen your doctor is suggesting is only changing one medication: bictegravir to dolutegravir.<\/p>\n<p>These two meds are \u00a0very similar and they are both widely used. Most doctors see them as being so similar that they are almost the same drug. <a \nhref=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/8851\">Information about doultegravir<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Your doctor is giving you very good treatment and information. Switching is easy and safe and you shouldn&#8217;t notice any difference.<\/p>\n<p>This is not an issue to stop taking your meds over.<\/p>\n<p>Stopping meds can only lead to harm.<\/p>\n<p>Christina<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My doctor is asking me to switch from Biktarvy to dolutegravir and tenofovir alafenamide plus emtricitabine.<\/p>\n<p>This is because Biktarvy is not available in the country I am migrating to. <\/p>\n<p>What will happen if I switch &#8211; or if I refuse to switch and just stop my medication?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5,10,55,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-access-to-treatment","category-adherence","category-changing-treatment","category-stopping-treatment","category-support"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25609","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\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25609"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25656,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25609\/revisions\/25656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}