{"id":778,"date":"2009-02-24T11:16:32","date_gmt":"2009-02-24T10:16:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i-base.info\/qa\/?p=778"},"modified":"2021-11-22T12:17:23","modified_gmt":"2021-11-22T12:17:23","slug":"what-is-the-window-period-for-twice-daily-drugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/778","title":{"rendered":"What is the &#039;window period&#039; for twice-daily drugs?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When starting treatment, it is more important to try and get as close to the same times each day. Every combination is special &#8211; especially your first combination &#8211; and it is worth doing everything you can to help make it work.<\/p>\n<p>This is to reduce the risk that at the end of the dose period some concentrations are too low and you risk resistance. Accurate timing is key but one-hour either side is probably fine for all twice-daily drugs.<\/p>\n<p>Once you get your viral load to undetectable (less than 50 copies\/mL) and it has stayed there for at least six months (so that it is undetectable not just in blood but in your lymph nodes where most of your<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With twice daily meds, do you have a large window to take your them, e.g. a couple of hours either side?<\/p>\n<p>On &#8216;the body.com&#8217; website, an expert has stated that you can have up to a four hour window?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7,30,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adherence","category-all-topics","category-other-tests","category-starting-treatment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778","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=778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}