{"id":358,"date":"2008-03-30T08:50:56","date_gmt":"2008-03-30T07:50:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i-base.info\/qa\/?p=358"},"modified":"2021-11-22T12:18:32","modified_gmt":"2021-11-22T12:18:32","slug":"how-long-will-a-combination-work-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/358","title":{"rendered":"How long will a combination work for?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks &#8211; you ask a really important question.<\/p>\n<p>After your viral load has been undetectable for 6 months or so, then as long as you don&#8217;t miss any doses, there is nothing to ever stop your combination working. It could last for 10 or 20 years &#8211; the key is makes sure you don&#8217;t miss doses.<\/p>\n<p>If you don&#8217;t miss doses, then very very rare for someone to develop resistance. With an undetectable viral load (below 50 copies\/mL) there is too little HIV for resistance to develop so long as you remember take your meds every day.<\/p>\n<p>The only reason you may want to change treatment, is if you have problems with side effects, or if better drugs are developed in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>hi, having been positive for 14 months now and on therapy for last 5 months &#8211; Sustiva and Truvada, once a day, working well so far.<\/p>\n<p>I was wondering how long i can expect to get from this first therapy? as long as i dont miss doses and mess it up myself? i know you cant say exactly but can you give me some idea? thanks<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,10,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-changing-treatment","category-starting-treatment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358","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=358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}