{"id":26462,"date":"2026-01-09T02:53:56","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T02:53:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=26462"},"modified":"2026-01-09T10:28:28","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T10:28:28","slug":"26462","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/26462","title":{"rendered":"I used to be doing well on ART but now I am losing weight&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi there<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for your email and for letting us post an answer online.<\/p>\n<p>Great to hear that everything was going so well\u00a0early on but I am sorry that your weight is worrying you now.<\/p>\n<p>Because so many other things in life can affect your weight could you help with a little more information? This will help look for the possible cause.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What is your normal height and weight and how much did this change and over what time &#8211; even roughly?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This is to get an idea\u00a0of how serious the weight loss is,<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Do you know the names\u00a0of your meds and have these changed at all?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This is to comment on whether\u00a0side effects might cause this.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Also, what was your CD4 count and viral load over this time and now?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This is to check if your meds are still working well or if there is a risk of another infection or illness.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What has your doctor said about this?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This is to check that your doctor knows about this and is taking this seriously.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Finally, have you made any other chages to your life? Are you eating and sleeping well, and not under too much stress? Are you being more active etc &#8211; in case this is related to your diet and energy levels?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you send these details I can answer in more detail, including to you privately.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was doing well when I first got the treatment some 5 years ago in Papua New Guinea but now I&#8217;m sick and I have lost a lot of weight, What can I do to get my weight back and not be sick?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,29,38,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-opportunistic-infections","category-side-effects","category-support"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26462","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=26462"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26471,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26462\/revisions\/26471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}