{"id":39,"date":"2006-08-28T19:31:13","date_gmt":"2006-08-28T18:31:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i-base.info\/qa\/?p=39"},"modified":"2014-01-05T15:20:54","modified_gmt":"2014-01-05T15:20:54","slug":"weight-loss-and-hair-loss-since-starting-treatment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/39","title":{"rendered":"Weight loss and hair loss since starting treatment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The main HIV drugs which report hair changes as a side effect, are 3TC (hair loss, not very common, but caused by 3TC for a few people) and indinavir (generally thinning, finer hair).<\/p>\n<p>If you are using either of these drugs, then talk to your doctor about switching them to something else &#8211; this is very easy to do.<\/p>\n<p>The weight loss is something you also need to see your doctor about, as if you are eating a well balanced diet, with enough nutrition, it could be related to a different infection.<\/p>\n<p>Without more details about your current treatment, or treatment history, it is difficult to comment. Definitely raise this with your doctor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The main HIV drugs which report hair changes as a side effect, are 3TC (hair loss, not very common, but caused by 3TC for a few people) and indinavir (generally thinning, finer hair). If you are using either of these &hellip;<\/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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-side-effects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39","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=39"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}