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Drug Level Testing

What Is Drug Level Testing? How Can TDM Help? Does TDM Work for All HIV Drugs? Difficulties With TDM When Can TDM Help? Future Directions What Is Drug Level Testing? It can be helpful to test a patient's blood to check the levels of a medication they are taking. Drug levels that are too high sometimes cause serious side effects. Levels that are too low might allow HIV to multiply and develop resistance. Testing drug levels is also...

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Viral Breakthrough=Resistance to all drugs currently taking?

I have been undectable for the past two years on a regimen of Viramune and Truvada. My lab blood work is better now than it was before I started meds and all of my liver enzymes are in the normal range. I feel great. I have no side effects and...

Response from Renslow Sherer, M.D.

University of Chicago Hospitals

Thank you for this excellent and important question. It would be a good idea for anyone taking ART to understand the answer. Its a long one with an important message at the end, so stay with me.The answer depends on the regimen you are taking, so... Read more »

Please advise on current status. Do I need more testing or is it conclusive with OraQuick Rapid Oral Fluid Test

I was communicating with Dr. Bob from The Body just before his passing and I was working in a remote area of South Africa at the time I was exposed and then communicating with Dr. Bob. Since Dr. Bob's passing I am unable to get any info to...

Response from Richard Cordova III

Test Positive Aware Network

Hi there:None of the symptoms you describe make me think they are HIV related. Your tests post 90 days were conclusive. Oral swabs have a higher incidence of false-positives, but you can trust the results of a negative result, post 90 days.Bottom... Read more »

need info about current medication

I am HIV+ and need to know more about current medication .Since I was diagnosed with Hiv my treatment was as followed6- months viramune 2*day combivar 2*dayLast 3 months because of cost implication on combivarviramune 2*dayvidex 100mg...

Response from Cal Cohen, M.D., M.S.

Harvard Medical School

Well, I am not sure I understand all of your questions... but here goes.Zerit and Viramune do not have any restrictions on food - meaning that they are the same whether you take them with or without anything to eat. However, Videx or ddI does have... Read more »

Currently HAART and Seizure medication interactions

Dear doctor: I am HIV positive since 1992 and currently on HAART including Tenofovir, Norvir, Reyataz, Emtriva and Fuzeon. Besides all these medications I am on Keppra 500 mg bid. I suffered a first seizure in 2/03 and was put on Dilantin and later...

Response from Brian Conway, M.D.

University of British Columbia

Keppra is rapidly absorbed after oral administration and food does not affect the extent of bioavailability. Keppra is not protein bound (<10%) and its metabolism is not liver cytochrome P450 dependent, with 66 % of the dose renally excreted... Read more »

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unprotected sex and currently on PEP...

Posted by Anonymous, 2 Replies

Hey everyone,

Need some help from people with knowledge of HIV, neg or poz or people who were on PEP.

I made a one time mistake of having unprotected (I inserted my penis vaginally) sex, one time, with a sex worker, status unknown...just 11 days ago.... Read more »

Current Treatment Options, and Prospects

Posted by Anonymous, 1 Reply

I just want to know, how good are the currently available treatments, and what are the prospects for newly infected persons? The new drugs, anounced at the Retroconference, when do you think they will be available, and what effect are they going to... Read more »

Current testing Questions

Posted by Anonymous, 1 Reply

With so much info out there, most of it contradictory, I wanted to ask....... given todays most widely used testing 1st and 2nd gen Elisa's (assume that the most advanced 3rd/ 4th gen tests are not used) are there any recent documented cases of... Read more »

Current Health Status

Posted by Anonymous, 2 Replies

As I mentioned in an earlier posting, I just started a protease-sparing regimen of 3 drugs three days ago. I have had no physical manifestations of HIV other than bad sinus and a reoccuring redness in my left eye with no apparent infection other... Read more »

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