Do People Take Kaletra With Truvada

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Truvada

Brand name: Truvada Generic name: emtricitabine/tenofovir, or FTC/TDF Class: Nucleoside/nucleotide reverse transcriptase inhibitor (nucleoside/nucleotide, NRTI, or nuke) -- fixed dose combination Manufacturer: Gilead Sciences, Inc., www.gilead.com , (800) GILEAD-5 (445-3235) AWP: $1,427.09/month Standard Dose: For adults and pediatric patients 12 years or older and weighing more than 77 pounds, one tablet (200 mg...

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kaletra/truvada or viramune/truvada

After 7 years of being diagnosed with HIV now my CD4 97, VL 23,000, resistance test came back negative. I'm on bactrim, no oportunistic infections ever or any other illness, all other labs within normal ranges. My doctor advised me to take...

Response from Mark Holodniy, M.D., F.A.C.P., C.I.C.

Stanford University, School of Medicine

Your viral load is of a moderate level and most regimens should get you down to an undetectable level. A recent study comparing kaletra and efavirenz (a cousin of nevirapine) combined with drugs like truvada demonstrated that efavirenz regimens got... Read more »

Truvada and Kaletra

Hello Doc, I have a question, Im taking Truvada and Kaletra for 28 days, since Aug 24, around 1pm I couldnt remember if I took the med at 10am or not, so I took at 1pm, what would be the problem if a doubled doseD?. pls let me know im worried....

Response from Benjamin Young, M.D., Ph.D.

Rocky Mountain CARES

Hello and thanks for posting.Other than a possible risk of increased side effects, there's no real issue with taking a single double dose of your medications.If you're having difficulty remembering if you'd taken your pills, a pill... Read more »

Muscle pain with Truvada + Kaletra

Hello DrI have been on PEP treatment for 11 days now, and I have experimented many side effects. One of them is muscle pain, especially in my buttocks and legs, and I swear I havent been able to make exercise since two weeks ago. Could this be a...

Response from David Wohl, M.D.

University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill

Lactic acidosis is not associated with these drugs. In fact when people developed lactic acidosis on older medications we placed them on Truvada. Moreover, the symptoms of this do not typically include muscle pain.Lipodystrophy occurs after years... Read more »

Kaletra and Truvada Side Effects

I have been on my current regimen of Truvada (1 pill once a day) and Kaletra(4 pills once a day) for about 2 years. Immediately after starting ,I noticed side effects from the medications (nausea, diarrhea, and headache), very consistent with...

Response from Brian Conway, M.D.

University of British Columbia

You need not be scared. Almost 90% of people who get any side effects of any kind on starting treatment like you notice the same thing. The side effects get better over a number of weeks and never come back. The fact that your CD4 count is so... Read more »

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Isentress plus Kaletra

Posted by Danigirl, 2 Replies

Has anyone taken a combination of Isentress and Kaletra? My husbands ID doctor called in this prescription after he had a reaction from the Atripla. We are new at this but I understand that traditionally the two aren't given together. The only... Read more »

First Regimen = Sustiva + Combivir + Kaletra?

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Hey guys (and gals). I am sure this has been addressed in some other post through some other thread in the past, but it would take forever to try to find those messages. So, here's my question and my issues...

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New Kaletra Formulation.....

Posted by Anonymous, 3 Replies

Hello.
I am looking at changing from Sustiva to Kaletra (My Nuke backbone is Truvada), however I have concerns about the side effect profile of Kaletra.
I hear that the newer formulation of Kaletra has less side effects that the old one - has anyone... Read more »

Kaletra body changes..

Posted by Lovinlife, 1 Reply

I recently started taking Kaletra. Has anybody experienced body changes on Kaletra? My doctor didn't mention anything about it but after looking on line, I see a lot of people saying that Kaletra causes lipodystrophy.

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