{"id":9377,"date":"2018-02-05T10:30:02","date_gmt":"2018-02-05T10:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=9377"},"modified":"2018-02-06T13:04:20","modified_gmt":"2018-02-06T13:04:20","slug":"why-have-i-been-given-tribuss-is-this-an-arv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/9377","title":{"rendered":"Why have I been given Tribuss &#8211; is this an ARV?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello,<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for your email. How are you doing?<\/p>\n<p>Tribuss is a pill that contains three HIV drugs (ARVs) &#8211; efavirenz, FTC and tenofovir DF.<\/p>\n<p>It is one of the generic versions of the brand-name drug <a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/1561\">Atripla<\/a>.\u00a0For a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/12098\">picture of Tribuss see this link<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>So your doctor has prescribed you ARVs, and this pill is very effective at treating HIV.<\/p>\n<p>Side effects mainly related to the efavirenz. These include mood changes, sleep problems, vivid dreams (sometimes nightmares). Luckily, for most people, these usually get easier within the first few weeks. If not though, please talk to your doctor about different choices.<\/p>\n<p>This link has <a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/starting\">more information about efavirenz side effects<\/a>\u00a0and how to manage them<a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/starting\">.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>You guide is an\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/starting\">Introduction to ART.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Because you are in South Africa,\u00a0the <a href=\"http:\/\/tac.org.za\/contact\">Treatment Action Campaign<\/a> may also have more information about treatment and support in SA.<\/p>\n<p><em>Note: This answer was updated in February 2018 from a question first posted online in October 2013.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I started taking Tribuss about two weeks ago.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d like to know what are the side effects of this medication and what is the difference between them and ARVs.<\/p>\n<p>I was shocked when my doctor prescribed me with Tribuss instead of ARVs which I&#8217;m familiar with when people are HIV+?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,49,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-south-africa","category-starting-treatment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9377","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=9377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9377\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}