Hi<\/p>\n
Pls tell your doctor about your symptoms so your clinic can check for these symptoms.<\/p>\n
The normal range for bilirubin is 1 -17. With atazanavir, geeting to five times this upper limit (ie around 70) is a reason to look at alternative doses.<\/p>\n
Your doctor can order a TDM test (therapeutic drug monitoring) which measures the levels of atazanavir in your blood before and after any dose adjustment. For example you may be able to take atazanavir at a higher dose (400mg) but may not need the ritonavir boosting.<\/p>\n
You can only do this safely with TDM, but this is an easy test to access and use.<\/p>\n
Mood changes have also been reported with atazanavir, and although this is not common, the higher drug levels indicated by you bilirubin results, may be relevant.<\/p>\n
Info about atazanavir and biirubin is at this link<\/a> and info about TDM is at this link<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Hi again<\/p>\n My original regime of Atripla once-daily had to be replaced due to severe depression. I am now on Truvada (FTC200mg\/tenofovvir245mg) + atazanavir (Reyataz) 300mg and ritonavir (Norvir) 100mg I have been on my new regime now for 6 months and my bilirubin levels are around 150 at my last bloods.<\/p>\n The problem I seem to be experiencing at present is feeling dizzy and slightly faint. My eyes are a bit yellow and very sore. Could this be a side effect to my medication or something else?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,10,30,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-changing-treatment","category-other-tests","category-side-effects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858","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=858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nThe best way to describe the feeling is like being in a constant day dream that I can’t snap out of.<\/p>\n