{"id":462,"date":"2008-05-21T10:45:28","date_gmt":"2008-05-21T09:45:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i-base.info\/qa\/?p=462"},"modified":"2021-11-22T12:18:25","modified_gmt":"2021-11-22T12:18:25","slug":"how-often-do-people-stop-taking-hiv-meds-because-of-severe-side-effects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/462","title":{"rendered":"How often do people stop taking hiv meds because of severe side effects?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Although this depends on the individual drugs in your combination, generally less than 5% of people have side effects that are defined as &#8216;severe&#8217; enough to need to stop treatment.<\/p>\n<p>This link has information about <a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/side\/how-side-effects-are-graded\">how side effects are graded<\/a>. Grade 3 or 4 are usually defined as &#8216;serious&#8217; and Grade 1 or 2 as &#8216;mild&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps 10-20% of people may change or modify treatment based on mild or less serious side effects. This is usually both easy and recommended in order to improve your quality of life, and to find a combination that is easy to tolerate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although this depends on the individual drugs in your combination, generally less than 5% of people have side effects that are defined as &#8216;severe&#8217; enough to need to stop treatment. This link has information about how side effects are graded. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,38,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-462","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\/462","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=462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}