{"id":5655,"date":"2012-01-16T15:24:55","date_gmt":"2012-01-16T15:24:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=5655"},"modified":"2012-01-16T15:24:55","modified_gmt":"2012-01-16T15:24:55","slug":"does-diarrhea-affect-the-absorption-of-my-hiv-meds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/5655","title":{"rendered":"Does diarrhea affect the absorption of my HIV meds?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thank you for your question.<\/p>\n<p>Generally, there is no need for you to worry about diarrhea affecting the absorption of your medication. This is because, once you take your tablets, there is plenty of time for them to be absorbed through your gut before you go to the toilet. There is no need therefore to take a second dose should this happen again.<\/p>\n<p>Advice around this is that if you have have diarrhea for more than a few days, then it is recommended that you speak to your doctor. He\/she will manage it by giving you medication for it or, if necessary, do an examination to determine the cause.<\/p>\n<p>Please follow this <a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/side\/diarrhoea\">link<\/a> to our guide managing side effects.<\/p>\n<p>Best wishes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi,<br \/>\nI have a question. I looked over the site but could not find a similar one.<\/p>\n<p>I just took my meds at 10pm and at 10.30pm had a bout of diarrhea. I&#8217;m worried that my meds won&#8217;t have been absorbed properly.<\/p>\n<p>I thought about taking another dose but decided against it. I just wondered what the advice is on this.<\/p>\n<p>Last year I had a couple of days of serious diarrhea and I&#8217;m worried these occassions will mean my HIV will come back.<\/p>\n<p>Should I be worried?<br \/>\nThanks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adherence","category-all-topics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5655","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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5655\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}