Hi<\/p>\n
Because I don’t know anything about you 0r your history it is difficult to comment specifically.<\/p>\n
When people get side effects with one drug they can usually benefit from switching to another. This will depend on your treatment hisotry and the type of problems you are having.<\/p>\n
You also sound unhappy and maybe you are also depressed. Sometimes talking to a counsellor or other professional can help you see new options. When you are sad or depressed it is difficult to see other things that might help and so your friends sound like they want you to get the support to know whether you really are this tired of life.<\/p>\n
If the problem is all based on the meds, then finding alternative drugs might help you feel that life is not so pointless.<\/p>\n
If one of your HIV drugs is efavirenz (Sustiva\/Stocrin) then this med could be why you are feeling so down. Efavirenz can affect your moods and feleling and for a few people this can be extremely severe. Within a week of changing meds they become a different person.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I’m sick and tired of hiv med and side effects. its been 3 years on meds and causing me all kinds of problems. everybodys answer is to talk to a professional and i already have. I got this hiv I want to make my own mind up to stop meds and die. why is everybody answer to talk to a professional the answer?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7,26,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adherence","category-all-topics","category-living-with-hiv-long-term","category-side-effects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5127","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=5127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5127\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}