Welcome, Guest. Please login or register.
March 28, 2024, 07:34:27 am

Login with username, password and session length


Members
Stats
  • Total Posts: 772945
  • Total Topics: 66310
  • Online Today: 375
  • Online Ever: 5484
  • (June 18, 2021, 11:15:29 pm)
Users Online
Users: 0
Guests: 347
Total: 347

Welcome


Welcome to the POZ Community Forums, a round-the-clock discussion area for people with HIV/AIDS, their friends/family/caregivers, and others concerned about HIV/AIDS.  Click on the links below to browse our various forums; scroll down for a glance at the most recent posts; or join in the conversation yourself by registering on the left side of this page.

Privacy Warning:  Please realize that these forums are open to all, and are fully searchable via Google and other search engines. If you are HIV positive and disclose this in our forums, then it is almost the same thing as telling the whole world (or at least the World Wide Web). If this concerns you, then do not use a username or avatar that are self-identifying in any way. We do not allow the deletion of anything you post in these forums, so think before you post.

  • The information shared in these forums, by moderators and members, is designed to complement, not replace, the relationship between an individual and his/her own physician.

  • All members of these forums are, by default, not considered to be licensed medical providers. If otherwise, users must clearly define themselves as such.

  • Forums members must behave at all times with respect and honesty. Posting guidelines, including time-out and banning policies, have been established by the moderators of these forums. Click here for “Do I Have HIV?” posting guidelines. Click here for posting guidelines pertaining to all other POZ community forums.

  • We ask all forums members to provide references for health/medical/scientific information they provide, when it is not a personal experience being discussed. Please provide hyperlinks with full URLs or full citations of published works not available via the Internet. Additionally, all forums members must post information which are true and correct to their knowledge.

  • Product advertisement—including links; banners; editorial content; and clinical trial, study or survey participation—is strictly prohibited by forums members unless permission has been secured from POZ.

To change forums navigation language settings, click here (members only), Register now

Para cambiar sus preferencias de los foros en español, haz clic aquí (sólo miembros), Regístrate ahora

Finished Reading This? You can collapse this or any other box on this page by clicking the symbol in each box.

Author Topic: Isentress - Major issues about...help, please!  (Read 6900 times)

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

Offline alabamaguy

  • New Member
  • Posts: 1
Isentress - Major issues about...help, please!
« on: September 12, 2010, 03:26:32 pm »
I have been taking Isentress for about a month...Adnormal dreams, Insomnia, Excessive fatique have been side effects and seem to be ones for a lot of people. Does anyone have experience with this drug? Did the side effects get better? How long (knowing that everyone's body is different) before getting better? ANY info will help...I am very depressed about this. I take Travada but had to change to Isentress trying to help lower my Triglycerides and up my Good Cholestrol. My total HIV health is very well matained and under control.


Offline newt

  • Member
  • Posts: 3,900
  • the one and original newt
Re: Isentress - Major issues about...help, please!
« Reply #1 on: September 12, 2010, 03:28:27 pm »
This in notable in about 5-10% of people for 1-3  months. Do you have other options?

- matt
"The object is to be a well patient, not a good patient"

Offline Inchlingblue

  • Member
  • Posts: 3,117
  • Chad Ochocinco PETA Ad
Re: Isentress - Major issues about...help, please!
« Reply #2 on: September 13, 2010, 01:40:11 am »
I take Travada but had to change to Isentress trying to help lower my Triglycerides and up my Good Cholestrol. My total HIV health is very well matained and under control.

Did you mean to say something else, you can't switch from Truvada to Isentress, you're supposed to take both.

I think fatigue is one of those things that's hard to pinpoint on the meds, unless you noticed it dramatically starting when you started the meds.

I'm on Isentress Truvada and find it pretty side effect-free. Give it a little more time if you can, it should get better as Newt says.

Offline HowYouDoin

  • Member
  • Posts: 56
  • this is not me but i wish, lol
Re: Isentress - Major issues about...help, please!
« Reply #3 on: October 05, 2010, 01:53:43 pm »
no real side effects on Isentress except I couldn't sleep very well the first 3-4 weeks on it. After that it was a breeze considering the awful side effects on Kaletra which was my prior regimen. How is it going so far for you Ala?

Offline manc

  • Member
  • Posts: 19
Re: Isentress - Major issues about...help, please!
« Reply #4 on: October 05, 2010, 05:35:59 pm »
I'm on a combination of Isentress and Truvada, and after a year on the combo still don't feel fully 100%, but pretty good. In contrast I took Atripla for a couple a weeks and came out in a bad rash, and felt like I was drugged up the whole time, but not in a good way. I was felt completely wiped out. I struggled with balance on stairs for instance.

I changed to Isentress and Truvada, For the first few months I felt better, but still a bit out of it, with sleep and concentration problems. Some of this was the psychological effects of taking meds, which are more than you expect. I was pushing to start and then found it wasn't as easy as I expected. Twelve months on I'm doing pretty well and haven't had the side effects you've experienced with Isentress, Hang on a little while if you can.

The counts are good as well so far

Sept 09 cd4 334 vl 12,000
Dec 09 cd4 338 vl undetectable
Mar 10 cd4 442  vl undetectable
June 10 cd4 556  vl undectectable
Next counts in a couple of weeks, wish me luck.

Take care
« Last Edit: October 05, 2010, 05:45:15 pm by manc »

Offline mecch

  • Member
  • Posts: 13,455
  • red pill? or blue pill?
Re: Isentress - Major issues about...help, please!
« Reply #5 on: October 05, 2010, 06:52:13 pm »
Please clarify if this is your first combination or a switch from another combination.
“From each, according to his ability; to each, according to his need” 1875 K Marx

Offline denb45

  • Member
  • Posts: 5,048
  • "1987 Classic Old School POZ+"
Re: Isentress - Major issues about...help, please!
« Reply #6 on: October 05, 2010, 07:16:02 pm »
Humm I've been taking this for the last 3 to 4 yrs. (think I was put on that back in 2006/early 2007) it replaced FUZEON, and I've never had any problems w/ Isentress, it sure beats sticking myself w/ a needle
every 12 hours. like i did back then  ???
« Last Edit: October 05, 2010, 07:22:12 pm by denb45 »
"it's so nice to be insane, cause no-one ask you to explain" Helen Reddy cc 1974

Offline Miss Philicia

  • Member
  • Posts: 24,793
  • celebrity poster, faker & poser
Re: Isentress - Major issues about...help, please!
« Reply #7 on: October 05, 2010, 07:22:51 pm »
I've been on Isentress for three years with no side effects.
"I’ve slept with enough men to know that I’m not gay"

Offline jkinatl2

  • Member
  • Posts: 6,007
  • Doo. Dah. Dipp-ity.
Re: Isentress - Major issues about...help, please!
« Reply #8 on: October 05, 2010, 08:28:51 pm »
Isentress gives me a godawful headache, but that is all.
"Many people, especially in the gay community, turn to oral sex as a safer alternative in the age of AIDS. And with HIV rates rising, people need to remember that oral sex is safer sex. It's a reasonable alternative."

-Kimberly Page-Shafer, PhD, MPH

Welcome Thread

Offline Inchlingblue

  • Member
  • Posts: 3,117
  • Chad Ochocinco PETA Ad
Re: Isentress - Major issues about...help, please!
« Reply #9 on: October 06, 2010, 12:16:38 pm »
Isentress gives me a godawful headache, but that is all.

How can you pinpoint it on Isentress?

I was getting horrible headaches before starting meds and once I started (Isentress/Truvada) they went away.

Offline Billy B

  • Member
  • Posts: 392
Re: Isentress - Major issues about...help, please!
« Reply #10 on: October 10, 2010, 01:49:36 pm »
I have been on I&T since March 15th after a horrid few weeks on Atripla. This combo has been very very good to me. The only problem is that I can no longer eat Mexican food because the gas is horrendous!
Billy
VL 4420 CD4 340 CD4% 24   3/15/10 Started I&T
VL  UD   CD4 340 CD4% 26.5 05/13/10
VL  UD   CD4 360 CD4% 27.1 08/3/10
VL  UD   CD4 310 CD4% 28.4 11/22/10
VL  UD   CD4 420 CD4% 27.9 02/11/11
VL  UD   CD4 370 CD4% 26.4 06/08/11
VL  UD   CD4 360 CD4% 27.7 09/23/11
VL  UD   CD4 370 CD4% 28.3 01/20/12
VL  UD   CD4 430 CD4% 28.8 05/11/12
VL  UD   CD4 370 CD4% 28.1 09/07/12
VL  UD   CD4 390 CD4% 32.3 03/14/13
VL  UD   CD4 450 CD4% 29.8 09/10/13
VL  UD   CD4 430 CD4% 31.0 04/29/14
VL  UD   CD4 520 CD4% 34.8 11/05/15
VL  UD   CD4 440 CD4% 33.5 03/10/15
VL  UD   CD4 450 CD4% 30.5 08/23/16
VL  UD   CD4 510 CD4% 34.0 07/21/20  (Biktarvy)

Offline HowYouDoin

  • Member
  • Posts: 56
  • this is not me but i wish, lol
Re: Isentress - Major issues about...help, please!
« Reply #11 on: October 10, 2010, 06:35:16 pm »
yes, Mexcian food and Isentress are enemies. I have so much gas and can't sleep cause of the gas when i eat mexican food. stay away from beans and fried food. lol

Offline emeraldize

  • Member
  • Posts: 3,397
Re: Isentress - Major issues about...help, please!
« Reply #12 on: October 10, 2010, 06:41:42 pm »
Isentress gives me a godawful headache, but that is all.

Jonathan,

I'm interested in your reply, too. Today, I restarted and had a headache which responded to my migraine med, Imitrex, BUT I get weather-related headaches and rain is forecast to be headed our way.

So, I don't know if it's med or weather-related. How often do you get the headaches? Are they migraines? Have you had them for however long you've taken Isentress/Truvada? Lots of questions, but I'm eager for any answers since I am new to this.

Thanks.

Em

Offline Inchlingblue

  • Member
  • Posts: 3,117
  • Chad Ochocinco PETA Ad
Re: Isentress - Major issues about...help, please!
« Reply #13 on: October 11, 2010, 11:46:57 am »
yes, Mexcian food and Isentress are enemies. I have so much gas and can't sleep cause of the gas when i eat mexican food. stay away from beans and fried food. lol

I assume you're on two other HIV meds, probably tenofovir emtricitabine (Truvada); those meds are more known for causing gas than Isentress.

 


Terms of Membership for these forums
 

© 2024 Smart + Strong. All Rights Reserved.   terms of use and your privacy
Smart + Strong® is a registered trademark of CDM Publishing, LLC.