{"id":25930,"date":"2025-03-01T21:09:34","date_gmt":"2025-03-01T21:09:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=25930"},"modified":"2025-05-31T12:03:05","modified_gmt":"2025-05-31T12:03:05","slug":"given-the-president-crisis-can-i-split-tablets-to-make-my-meds-last-longer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/25930","title":{"rendered":"Can I split tablets to make my meds last longer? \u2013 until the President crisis is over?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi there,<\/p>\n<p><strong>No, no, no &#8211; please do NOT try to split HIV pills &#8211; this is very risky.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This is a risky because a half dose will not be strong enough. Also, each of the drugs in the combination might not be evenly distributed in the pill.<\/p>\n<p>However, because you are undetectable, there might be a way to make your meds last longer.<\/p>\n<p>If you are taking a single pill with three meds &#8211; either TLD or TLE &#8211; then you might be able to save two pills every week. This is because the FOTO studies (Five-On, Two-Off) showed that taking five pills every week kept viral load undetectable.<\/p>\n<p>Please see: <a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/25807\">Can fewer doses make my meds last longer as my clinic is closed?<\/a> for more details.<\/p>\n<p>Please also talk to your doctor about this first.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/14970\">TLD = tenofovir + lamivudine + dolutegravir.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/18550\">TLE = tenofovir + lamivudine + efavirenz.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Also, thank you for posting about your situation. I am really sorry that you are in this situation. Many people are working hard to make sure HIV treatment continues to be available.<\/p>\n<p>Which country are you in?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My viral load reads below 20 for the past 2 years.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m concerned because we are now not going to have medication due to friction between 2 presidents.<\/p>\n<p>In order to save my meds til this dilemma is sorted can I take half a tablet every second day or is this risky?<\/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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25930","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\/25930","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=25930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25930\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}