{"id":3886,"date":"2011-04-14T11:59:10","date_gmt":"2011-04-14T11:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=3886"},"modified":"2011-04-14T11:59:10","modified_gmt":"2011-04-14T11:59:10","slug":"what-can-someone-do-about-pains-in-their-legs-and-arms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/3886","title":{"rendered":"What can someone do about pains in their legs and arms?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thank you for your question.<\/p>\n<p>It sounds as if you are describing peripheral neuropathy which is like can vary from pins and needles (in the fingers\/hands or toes\/feet). Although it can be a side effect of some medication this has not been reported for the drugs in Atripla.<\/p>\n<p>HIV can also cause neuropathy, especially if the CD4 counts has ever been very low (under 200, and especially if under 50 cells\/mm3).<\/p>\n<p>If these symptoms persists or becomes worse then referral to a specialist is recommended.<\/p>\n<p>For a non technical explanation peripheral neuropathy, including causes and treatments please follow this link to the relevant section in our guide to <a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/side\/peripheral-neuropathy\">HIV and your quality of life.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A medical overview from HIV inSite on neuropathy including related muscular pain is online <a href=\"http:\/\/hivinsite.ucsf.edu\/InSite?page=kb-04-01-02\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the best medication for nerve pains, they  first started in legs now in arms and hands. Patient is on Atripla.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,10,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-changing-treatment","category-side-effects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3886","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3886\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}