{"id":807,"date":"2009-04-03T16:26:59","date_gmt":"2009-04-03T15:26:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i-base.info\/qa\/?p=807"},"modified":"2021-11-22T12:17:21","modified_gmt":"2021-11-22T12:17:21","slug":"what-can-i-do-about-darkening-of-the-skin-and-thinning-of-the-limbs-and-face","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/807","title":{"rendered":"What can I do about darkening of the skin and thinning of the limbs and face?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thank you for your question.<\/p>\n<p>Darkening of the skin may be a result of low levels of vitamin D. I have replied to a similar question <a href=\"http:\/\/www.i-base.info\/qa\/?p=803\">here<\/a>. Hope you find the answer useful too.<\/p>\n<p>As for the thinning of the face, legs, etc, this may be a condition called lipodystrophy. There is a very detailed information about it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.i-base.info\/guides\/side\/lipodystrophy.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Please note that taking the ARVs is still very important, as your CD4 count is still low. Your doctor may decide to make changes after you talk to him\/her. It is important, however, that you do not interrupt or change medicines on your own.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am on Truvada and nevirapine for HIV, I am also on a preventetive antibiotic Septrin, because my CD4 count is below 200 (i.e 156). I was dignosed with TB but have since finished treatment for TB. My problem is that since I started treatment I developed changes in my body that might be noticed by those who knew me before. Changes include darkening of skin, especially face, thinning of face, arms and legs. Are these changes due to the medication I am taking? If yes, what can be done with the problem? Thank very much and keep on doing the good job you are doing for us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-807","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\/807","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=807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}