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Main Forums => Living With HIV => Topic started by: wolfter on February 05, 2011, 03:49:35 pm
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Sorry if I appear to be starting so many threads but I am trying to re-create my medical history. I never thought it'd be important to keep all my records especially since I didn't have a real HIV doctor until 2 years ago.
I've been on so many different meds that they're blending. I was on one medication that I had to take every 4 hours. I remember being preached to about adherence which included setting an alarm clock in the middle of the night to take it. I remember the worst side affect was being totally exhausted as we had to take it every 4 hours. Does anyone remember what that was? I might be off, but I think it was recommended to take it nightly with white zin.
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Does anyone remember what that was?
I remember AZT being dosed at 4 hour intervals. Is that what your referring to? I had several close friends , back in the 80's, And if my memory serves me right, AZT was taken every 4 hours.
Ray
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The exhaustion stuff sounds a lot like AZT. AZT left me as tired as a motherfucker.
Fucking awful headaches too.
MtD
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Just wanted to add, I was on Trizivir for a brief period back in 2004 Trizivir contained AZT. It was pretty rough stuff to handle. Trizivir was not taken every 4 hours though. I think I lasted about 30 days on it before I changed back to the original regimen.
Ray
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azt was a white capsule with a blue band around it's center and a horse or unicorn or something like that on it. dosing was 4 pills every 4 hours, 24 hrs a day. Night and Day you had to keep setting an alarm clock to ring every 4 hours. It was always had to tell if it was waking up for meds 2 or 3 times in the night, or the anemia and the puking that was making you so damned tired.
(http://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/aidsephemera/images/azt.gif)
by the way, once when I went back and was trying to reconstruct my regimens etc through the 90s (I mean who gave a f@ck about what you were taking then, when you were probably still just going to die anyway. I didn't keep records or even bother paying taxes for quite a few years) anyway, I used the aidsmeds drug list to figure out most of what I took when.
http://www.aidsmeds.com/list.shtml