{"id":7161,"date":"2012-07-13T09:36:32","date_gmt":"2012-07-13T09:36:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=7161"},"modified":"2020-07-18T13:20:40","modified_gmt":"2020-07-18T13:20:40","slug":"are-symptoms-of-dizzyness-a-side-effect-of-my-medication","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/7161","title":{"rendered":"Does my treatment cause dizzyness?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Feeling dizzy is a symptom associated with Sustiva (efavirenz).<\/p>\n<p>Please follow this <a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/side\/cns-side-effects\">link to our guide which explains in more detail, symptoms associated with Sustiva. <\/a>Please have a read and see if they sound similar to what you are experiencing.<\/p>\n<p>You mentioned that you lost 35lbs on our diet. What was your weight before?\u00a0 Are you still on the diet? Are you eating well? Are you sleeping ok?<\/p>\n<p>It is possible that as result of the weight loss and change in your diet, you might be getting higher levels of Sustiva. Which may have\u00a0 resulted in\u00a0 you experiencing the dizzy feeling.<\/p>\n<p>One option in managing these side effects is to switch drugs. Switching from efavirenz to an alternative drug if you have an undetectable viral load is easy. However, it is important that you describe these symptoms to your doctor. He\/she will be able to confirm whether switching will be the best option for you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello. I have been on sustiva and truvada for 4 years now. I am undetectable and my CD4 count is close to 700. But, I have recently been on a diet and have dropped 35 lbs, and now am finding a slight dizzy feeling when I get up that lasts a few hours. I have had this problem for a couple months now, and wonder what option I could go on with truvada that will eliminate this groggy feeling. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-side-effects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7161","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=7161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7161\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}