{"id":728,"date":"2008-12-20T20:44:23","date_gmt":"2008-12-20T19:44:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i-base.info\/qa\/?p=728"},"modified":"2021-11-22T12:17:26","modified_gmt":"2021-11-22T12:17:26","slug":"should-my-friend-change-treatment-to-stop-sustiva-side-effects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/728","title":{"rendered":"Should my friend change treatment to stop Sustiva side effects?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It sounds like your friend is just one of the people who will never find efavirenz a tolerable drug.<\/p>\n<p>As this is his first treatment,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A friend of mine (HIV+) is taking a combination treatment that includes efavirenz (Sustiva).<\/p>\n<p>He is having side effects of depression, insominia, erectile dysfunction, loss of libido, and diminished ambition and satisfaction with life over-all.<\/p>\n<p>He consulted with a psychiatrist who has placed him on anti-depressents (Welbutrin) and anti-psychotics (risperadol  later replaced with  geodon).  Working in the Mental Health field and being HIV+ myself the use of the antipsychotics  in this way alarms me.<\/p>\n<p>His MDs have been very reluctant to switch hime off the Sustiva even tho he is on his first course of medications and is pretty treatment naive.<\/p>\n<p>Personally I think the risk of long-term damage from the anti-psychotics is reason to drop the Sustiva from his treatment regiem. (In addition to the psychological  side effects).<\/p>\n<p>What do you think?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728","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=728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}