{"id":25726,"date":"2024-12-28T21:19:45","date_gmt":"2024-12-28T21:19:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=25726"},"modified":"2025-03-28T17:23:02","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T17:23:02","slug":"25726","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/25726","title":{"rendered":"My US insurance stopped my meds &#8211; will a dose every second day be ok?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi there<\/p>\n<p>I am sorry to hear of your situation.<\/p>\n<p>Even though there are good and bad aspects of all health systems, it is shocking to hear you are being treated like this.<\/p>\n<p>HIV is serious enough for the US to develop a system that covers people when there are insurance problems.<\/p>\n<p>Your doctor has given you good information by changing to every other day in order to make your drugs stretch another few weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Although this has not been studied in large trials, this strategy should be okay for the next couple of weeks. This is because two of the drugs in Biktarvy stay in your body for several days after each dose. This will cover the shorter time that bictegravir stays in your body.<\/p>\n<p>Although it is not recommended to routinely dose this way, it will cover you and your viral load should still stay undetectable throughout.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello, I am taking Biktarvy, I have problem with my insurance, and the pharmacy won\u2019t give me medications, now I am applying to a program that will help me with my medications.<\/p>\n<p>I have been taken my Biktarvy every other day for more than a week now. And I missed 6 pills already. <\/p>\n<p>Do you think I will be detectable by now? Hope someone could help me.<\/p>\n<p>By next week, I will have my medications back and I will take it regularly again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5,7,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-access-to-treatment","category-adherence","category-all-topics","category-cd4-and-viral-load"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25726","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=25726"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26007,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25726\/revisions\/26007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}