{"id":8461,"date":"2012-12-14T11:05:39","date_gmt":"2012-12-14T11:05:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=8461"},"modified":"2012-12-14T11:05:39","modified_gmt":"2012-12-14T11:05:39","slug":"can-i-take-viagra-with-arvs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/8461","title":{"rendered":"Can I take Viagra with ARVs?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thank-you for your email.<\/p>\n<p>To check for interactions I would need to know which ARVs you are taking. Please let me know, or go to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hiv-druginteractions.org\/\">HIV-Druginteractions.org<\/a>\u00a0to check this.<\/p>\n<p>Generally it is safe to take Viagra with ARVs. Some ARVs may affect the concentration of Viagra that your body absorbs. If you are taking a combination which includes ritonavir levels of Viagra may be higher. Alternatively if you are taking efavirenz levels of Viagra may be lower than normal.<\/p>\n<p>For this reason it&#8217;s important to discuss this with your doctor or pharmacist to get the most accurate information according to your ARV treatment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is it safe to take prescribed Viagra (not the stuff you buy off the internet) with ARVs?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-drug-interactions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8461","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=8461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8461\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}