Hi<\/p>\n
It is important to talk to your doctor any about specific symptoms.<\/p>\n
This is because symptoms of side effects can be similar to symptoms of other illnesses. your doctor needs to look at your medical history and perhaps run other tests to answer this.<\/p>\n
Efavirenz<\/a> is one of the three drugs in Atripla<\/a>. I can have side effects in some people that relate to moods, levels or anxiety or depression and other brain-related complications. So this may be related to the Atripla. See this link for info on efavirenz side effects<\/a>.<\/p>\n Memory loss can also be related to ageing, worry, stress and complications related to the brain, but this would need testing.<\/p>\n It is common to think your memory is going, but whether this is a real effect is more complicated.<\/p>\n Giving your doctor examples of how your memory has changed will be very helpful. For example: Is this for short-term memory? This is very common independent of HIV and efavirenz – \u00a0ie where did I put my keys? what did I come to the shops to buy? what did I do last week? etc.<\/p>\n Or is it that you are forgetting things in the more distant past? Or facts that you used to know?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" My memory has become bad since I’ve been taking Atripla. Does Atripla cause memory loss?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,9,29,38,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-cd4-and-viral-load","category-opportunistic-infections","category-side-effects","category-starting-treatment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4647","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=4647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4647\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}