Getting A Prescription For Nevirapine

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Nevirapine (Viramune)

What Is Nevirapine? Who Should Take It? What About Drug Resistance? How Is It Taken? What Are the Side Effects? How Does It React With Other Drugs? What Is Nevirapine? Nevirapine is a drug used as part of antiretroviral therapy (ART). It is also called Viramune. It is manufactured by Boehringer Ingelheim. Generic versions have been tentatively approved under PEPFAR (see Fact Sheet 475 ). Nevirapine is a non-nucleoside reverse...

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Nevirapine

Hi Doc, my doctor started me on Combivir,Nevirapine and Purbac. Generally I'm doing well but I'm getting chubby cheeks and bigger tummy. What could be causing this and can something be done ...

Response from Ewald Horwath, M.D.

University of Miami School of Medicine

The "bigger tummy" may be a side effect of your medications. Discuss the problem with your doctor to see if there is anything that can be done to adjust your treatment and avoid this side effect.... Read more »

Nevirapine complications in a naive patient

I wrote you a month before about the use of nevirapine vs efavirenz for a first regimen in a naive patient. Unfortunately it complicated with toxic hepatitis with ALT 708 and bilirrubin 9. I was admited to hospital for 9 days. Also I had acalculous...

Response from Gerald Pierone, M.D.

AIDS Research and Treatment Center of the Treasure Coast

The toxic hepatitis from nevirapine (Viramune) generally occurs within the first several months of therapy and is due to a hypersensitivity reaction. Liver function typically returns to normal after the event and does not seem to predict a similar... Read more »

Effects of Nevirapine and Duovir

Dear Dr:I am on medication because I am planning on having a baby with my boyfriend. I am on Nevirapine and Duovir since this past week. I had nausea but realized when you eat immediately after it stops. The problem now I have this fear of over...

Response from Brian Conway, M.D.

University of British Columbia

Congratulations on being so responsible to take charge of your HIV disease and protect your future child by going on antiretroviral medications. If you take the medications until you deliver, it is very unlikely that you will transmit HIV to your... Read more »

reintroduction of nevirapine after sustiva rash

Hello.Thanks for all of the valuable information in this forum.Eight months ago I was taking Nevirapine, 3tc, and d4t. I had been on this regimen for 5 years with no side effects except for lipoatrophy. I switched Abacavir for d4t but had to...

Response from Keith Henry, M.D.

University of Minnesota, School of Medicine

I have switched patients from Sustiva to Viramune in situations like you described. Generally that has gone OK but perhaps 10-20% have experienced hypersensitivity problems necessitating stopping the nevirapine. Usually the Sustiva rash fades over... Read more »

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