Hi<\/p>\n
Two thing could be going on here. One is that you are having an unusually back reaction in terms of wind and bloating to your combination. If this is the case, and it doesn’t settle down, then talking to your doctor about alternative to using saquinavir\/ritonanvir may be the best option.<\/p>\n
There is a slight chance that the change in the size of your stomach could be realted to lipodystrophy. This is a side effect that increase fat deposits in some parts of your body, but this usually only develops slowly over several years and rarely in such a short time.<\/p>\n
Even so, it may be worth talking to your doctor about, as switching from saquinavir\/ritonavir may also help this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I started treatment five weeks ago and been through lots of different side effects which have passed. My treatment was altered this week because of spasms in my hands and I was dropping things. That seems to be getting better but anal leakage has returned and constantly bloated tummy is driving me mad. I’m taking saquinivir and ritinovir. I’ve changed to Viread and tenofovir since Monday.<\/p>\n
Maybe I’m just being silly and vain but I train hard with weights 5 days a week and do a 20 minute cardio workout 5 days a week as well and people are staring at my belly growing so big! I’m eating really healthy and I know some of it is wind. Literally from leaving the gym floor where my belly is fine and getting out of the changing room shower my belly has bloated.<\/p>\n
Will this too pass or am I stuck with pregnant belly forever?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,38,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-side-effects","category-starting-treatment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312","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=312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}