Thanks for your email. It\u2019s good to hear that you\u2019ve got a strong routine going at the start of treatment. Taking your medication at the same time every day will help to make sure it works effectively for you.<\/p>\n
There is usually a window period of about 1 or 2 hours for taking ARVs. The odd occasion of missing or being late with a dose (say once a month) is unlikely to make a difference to your treatment. Of course, it\u2019s important to try to avoid this, but it does mean that when clocks change, or for your trip to France, it\u2019s OK to change the time you\u2019re taking your meds.<\/p>\n
So it\u2019s up to you if you want to change to 9am\/9pm or if you would prefer to stay with the routine you already have.<\/p>\n
For more information about starting treatment please see our Introduction to combination therapy guide.<\/p>\n
Please let us know if you have any questions!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I recently started treatment. I\u2019m taking raltegravir twice a day and Kivexa (abacavir+ 3TC) once a day.<\/p>\n
I aim to take the raltegravir at exactly the same time (10am then 10pm). I take the Kivexa at 10pm along with the raltegravir.<\/p>\n
Two things I wanted to ask:<\/p>\n
The clocks go back at the end of the month, that would mean that I take my meds at 9am and 9pm instead of 10am and 10pm – is that right or should I stick to the 10am and 10pm?<\/p>\n
The other thing is that I go to France in January and they are an hour ahead – does that mean I take my meds an hour ahead of the time I would do here?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adherence","category-all-topics","category-starting-treatment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8133","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8133\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}