{"id":3961,"date":"2011-04-27T13:35:22","date_gmt":"2011-04-27T13:35:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=3961"},"modified":"2011-04-27T13:35:22","modified_gmt":"2011-04-27T13:35:22","slug":"can-i-take-ginseng-with-my-arvs-to-overcome-my-fatigue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/3961","title":{"rendered":"Can I take Ginseng with my ARVs to overcome my fatigue?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thank you for your question.<\/p>\n<p>I am sorry to hear about your fatigue.<\/p>\n<p>Fatigue can be a side effect of all HIV treatments though generally most people find it is something that gets easier after a few weeks. Because fatigue can also be a symptom of other health complication please talk to your doctor about this.<\/p>\n<p>Your doctor needs to decide whether this is a side effects (in which case switching treatment may be an option) or a symptoms of something else.<\/p>\n<p>See information about fatigue from the i-Base\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/side\/fatigue-feeling-tired\">side effects guide<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It is always a good idea to speak to your doctor about any herbal treatments you are taking.<\/p>\n<p>However, ginseng does not appear to interact with the liver enzymes that metabolise your HIV meds.<\/p>\n<p>See this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/10574228\">study on ginseng<\/a> from 1999.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can taking Ginseng cause problems when taking ARV&#8217;s?  I am taking Truvada, darunavir and ritonavir and am struggling with fatigue so was thinking of taking Ginseng.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,16,38,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-drug-interactions","category-side-effects","category-supplements-and-herbs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3961","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=3961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3961\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}