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Pharmacokinetics

Table of Contents What Is PK? How Is PK Studied? Drug Interactions and Drug Boosting Do Men and Women Process Drugs Differently? Pharmacokinetic Testing How to Make PK Work for You What Is PK? Pharmacokinetics, also known as PK, is the study of how medications behavein and move through the body. PK is used to figure out how much drug gets intoyour bloodstream and how long it stays there. Scientists study PK to determine...

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big drop in cd4 and cd4 percentage

I was diagnosed with hiv/aids and Kaposis September of 2011 with a cd4 of 71, cd4% of 15 and vl of 18,000 and started Atripla at that time. my cd4 rose to 100 after the first month of treatment and 119 by the 4th month and vl was undetectible, my...

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

Stanford University, School of Medicine

Absolutely. Interferon is well known to decrease white blood cell (WBC) counts, including CD4 counts. Since your viral load is still undetectable, this is extremely unlikely to be related to failure of your HIV meds.... Read more »

Raltegravir Resistance

Hi Doctor Mark. My story is this. I get infected with a high resistance virus, my first medications were truvada and kaletra, unfortunately I developed resistance to both and my doctor decided to add raltegravir to my meds one year ago. The trouble...

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

Stanford University, School of Medicine

Well the devil is in the details, as to exactly what mutations are present in the reverse transcriptase, protease and integrase enzyme sequences to know exactly how to proceed. The regimen your doctor is considering would not be a bad approach. But,... Read more »

acute hiv symptoms after testing positive

I tested positive 5 days ago after being consistently exposed for some 4 months from the beginning of the year, practicing unsafe sex. My boyfriend is still not tested yet but is the only one I've done unprotected sex with so I am pretty sure...

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

Rocky Mountain CARES

Hello and sorry to hear about your test results.While you can't have "acute symptoms" more than 3 months after exposure (ie., you're past the point of acute infection), you could certainly have HIV symptoms (i.e, those of chronic... Read more »

Will the post exposure prophylaxis delay the validity of the TEST?

Dr. Young, please offer me an answer based on the latest research. I have a risky event (brief oral sex)on March 19, 2012 with a person who told me after the fact that he is HIV+ (positive). He performed oral sex on me and I performed it...

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

Rocky Mountain CARES

Hi and thanks for posting.First off, your exposure was very, very low risk.Second, a PCR test 1 month after exposure is pretty darn good evidence that you don't have HIV.Third, conclusive AND definite? Well, if that be the case, I'd be... Read more »

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Am I in Risk

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10 days before for the first time & I made a big mistake.

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Stupid weekend

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Why can't I just get my results. This weekend sucks. I have done nothing but drink too much. Waiting for my positive result. Read more »

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