Living With HIV / Re: vampires
« Last post by leatherman on Today at 06:20:56 pm »I had no idea that there are such complexities to taking hiv meds.really since the advent of Atripla around 2005-2006, HIV treatment has radically changed for the good. It's not just that we got a pill a day regimens; but a lot of the "kinks" (ie negative side effects) of HIV treatment were finally getting worked out and more effective meds were developed.
Since then the people who have the most issues with meds are either people who have lived with HIV a long time (because they started out on earlier meds) or people who have resistance issues (from inadequate adherence).
Complexities? LOL Picture setting your alarm for every 4 hours every day and night to wake up and take 4 AZT pills. every day. forever. Or taking a huge tablet that had to be crushed up and tasted like chalk. Or trying to remember which pills (or liquid meds) you had to take 2 hrs before, or 4 hrs after, or with food. (I used to have a keep a chart just to get through a day.) The last 15 yrs of treatment have been so much better than the 15 yrs before.