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HALF DOSING MY MEDS
#133061 - 01/18/05 06:17 PM
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Hello All !! I want to tell everyone that I started taking half of the prescribed doses of my meds about 2 years ago. My T cells remain High (570) and my V load is still undetectable..
I am on viramune,ziagen and zerit. I had an uncle who died in 1994 after having taken a few years of azt in very high doses,as prescribed at the time. I believe this is what killed him, not HIV. I am astounded and continue on my half doses hoping that the long term side effects, which are unknown,will be lightened. I know there is some research now about half-dosing. I wanted to share my story
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Dude, if you're half-dosing, why not just stop completely? Half a dose is way too low for most drugs to even work, and if your tcells have always been that high, it's no surprise you haven't gotten sick. Does your doc know you're doing this? If, god forbid, you ever do start to get sick, what happens if all your years of halfing it turn out to have given you resistance to all the drugs out there?
Hey, do you have any links to the research on half-dosing? I haven't heard about it, but now I'm interested to see how many people share your story. From the research I've read, if you take a dose that's lower than "therapeutic" levels, you're almost begging your HIV to get resistant. But I also know research only lasts as long as the next study that overrides it, so who knows?
Still- if you're doing this without talking to your doc, he's not doing his duty, and neither are you. If nothing else, why wouldn't you want to join one of those studies, so they can figure out whether what you're doing can work for other people too?
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