Missed Dose Combivir

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Missed Doses-Combivir

Hello, thank you for your web site. I am very concerned respecting doses missed. I was diagnosed 2000/11/13, started on Sustiva and combivir 2000/12/01. I take 3 pills susitiva and one pill combivir in the morning and 1 pill combivir in the PM. In...

Response from Susan Little, M.D.

University of California San Diego

First I would like to commend you - if you have only missed two doses of combivir in 9 months, then you are doing extremely well in the compliance area. Really - when we talk about missing doses, we stress the importance of compliance/adherence... Read more »

Delayed dosage and Missing one dose of Combivir

I have started nPEP for 3 days so far, from Tuesday 17th. Last night (Thursday 19th) when I took... Read more »

Response from Robert J. Frascino, M.D. »

sustiva/combivir missed dose

Hi. I was reading an earlier post in which you stated that a missed dose of the Sustiva/Combivir... Read more »

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Combivir

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Posted by placation, 4 Replies

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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Posted by Anonymous, 4 Replies

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