{"id":26126,"date":"2025-05-29T08:45:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-29T08:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=26126"},"modified":"2025-05-31T11:58:33","modified_gmt":"2025-05-31T11:58:33","slug":"26126","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/26126","title":{"rendered":"Are there interactions between my HIV meds and valproic acid (Depakote)?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks for your Q and it is good to check about drug interactions.<\/p>\n<p>It is good that your doctor checked &#8211; and they are giving you good advice and treatment.<\/p>\n<p>Depakote does have a lot of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.drugs.com\/drug-interactions\/divalproex-sodium,depakote-index.html\">potential interactions<\/a>, including with some HIV meds. However, there are no interactions though with the HIV meds in your combination.<\/p>\n<p>You can also take your meds at the same time as your HIV meds can be taken with or without food.<\/p>\n<p>I hope you are doing well<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am taking tenofovir disoproxil fumarate, lamivudine, and dolutegravir combination, but I am also taking Depakote for bipolar. My doctor assured me that it is ok. Is it ok? Should there be intervals between taking these two medicines?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-drug-interactions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26126","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=26126"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26137,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26126\/revisions\/26137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}