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Meds, Mind, Body & Benefits => Questions About Treatment & Side Effects => Topic started by: conwaygay on December 11, 2012, 02:54:30 pm
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I'm on day 5 of Atripla. The first few nights I had vivid dreams, but haven't had any since. I do find that the slightest things will wake me, though, and it's really hard to fall back asleep once I wake. This doesn't bother me much, at least yet.
What bothers me is that I've felt really disoriented and drunken for the majority of the day every day since taking it (I take it around 1030pm).
I'm a nursing student and I work, so feeling like this makes it really hard to be productive and really hard to concentrate.
I've read people say they feel hung over in the mornings, but I feel flat out drunk until just a few hours before taking the meds again.
Does this side effect generally dissipate after a few weeks?
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What about switching to something else that doesn't have those side effects?
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What about switching to something else that doesn't have those side effects?
I'm going to give Atripla a month, at least. I want my meds to be consistent and taken often to avoid resistance.
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I'm going to give Atripla a month, at least. I want my meds to be consistent and taken often to avoid resistance.
If you stay in the same family of drugs you shouldn't have an issue jumping back and forth. Complera and Stribild would fall into the same family as Atripla. I'm switching from Complera to Stribild and was told I can always go back to Complera at any point if need be.
I would discuss it with your doctor at the very least. It's bad enough having to live with HIV, why take on further unnecessary stuff to deal with.
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If you stay in the same family of drugs you shouldn't have an issue jumping back and forth. Complera and Stribild would fall into the same family as Atripla. I'm switching from Complera to Stribild and was told I can always go back to Complera at any point if need be.
I would discuss it with your doctor at the very least. It's bad enough having to live with HIV, why take on further unnecessary stuff to deal with.
You should be able to change regimens from one class to another without there being an issue as well. Where did you come up with this theory about needing to stay in one class?
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Give it some time. The drunky feeling may subside. It comes back every night for me if I'm still up for about an hour after I take it. It did make me feel disoriented for the first week or so. I remember someone saying that it doesn't go away..you'll just get used to it. That ended up not being true. I feel fine during the day. It'll be a year on Jan 27th for me.
What you should watch for is a rash on the the seventh or eighth day. That was from hell.
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If you stay in the same family of drugs you shouldn't have an issue jumping back and forth. Complera and Stribild would fall into the same family as Atripla. I'm switching from Complera to Stribild and was told I can always go back to Complera at any point if need be.
While Complera and Atripla both contain two nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors + a non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor, Stribild is different. Stribild contains two nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors + an integrase inhibitor (with a boosting agent). Stribild = Single-Tablet Regimen Integrase-Based by gILD (Gilead), while the other two single-tablet regimens are based around NNRTIs.
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It does get better. I know that drunk, out of body feeling that atripla gave me. It goes away with time. Its almost 2 years for me, and i cannot say anything bad about it...good luck.
If it persists, talk to ur doctor and you can come up with another regiment together.
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I've been on Atripla for 4-1/2 years now. The first 10 days were bad...anxious, achy, jittery, just feeling unwell. After that the side effects quickly subsided.
Today I have absolutely no problems. I can even take it after a full meal...no side effects. Give it a chance....plus I have been consistently undetectable and my CD4 is over 1200.
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It does get better. I've been on it for almost 4 years and the first few days on Atripla i felt high as a kite and completely disoriented if i woke up at night to use the bathroom. I'd have to hold on to the walls to find my way back to my bed.