Pharmacokinetics Of Epivir

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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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Once-a-day dosing of Epivir

My doctor has recommended that I take 2 Epivir tablets together, once a day, instead of spacing each tablet out by 12 hours. Do we know if this has been proven effective? I understand that Epivir is one of the easiest drug for the virus to mutate...

Response from Judith A. Aberg, M.D.

Washington University, St. Louis School of Medicine

Epivir (lamivudine, 3TC) is not approved as a once daily therapy yet. I do know of some doctors that are prescribing this but I do not as I have not seen enough pharmacokinetic trails or efficacy trials supporting this. There is a new drug in... Read more »

Viracept/Epivir/Zerit vs. Sustiva/Epivir/Zerit

I have been positive for 3 years and doing well. Undetectable viral load, t-cells around 600. I started meds with Epivir/Zerit/Viracept and recently dropped the Viracept for Sustiva. I was told that the Viracept was the cause of the fat pad that...

Response from Keith Henry, M.D.

University of Minnesota, School of Medicine

Switching to Sustiva "saves" the protease class for later use and can be a part of a long-term treatment plan. Your current regimen still can cause fat problems (all 3 meds) and generally the fat pads haven't gotten better on your... Read more »

Pharmacokinetics

Hi there,Can you please give me information about pharmacokinetic of saquinavir, one of HIV protease inhibitors, in vivo and in vitro study?...

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

Stanford University, School of Medicine

That is a very broad topic. I am not sure what your question about this actually is. Could you be more specific.... Read more »

Pharmacokinetics

Dear Dr. Holodniy,Thanks for answering my previuos question. Specifically, I'm looking for effects of HIV protease inhibitors (HPIs) on insulin signalling pathway at cellular level. From my literature reviews, I found that HPIs most probably...

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

Stanford University, School of Medicine

Sounds interesting but beyond the scope of this forum, which is for answering questions about laboratory results for HIV patients.... Read more »

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Viracept/Epivir/Videx side effects

Posted by TimInAtlanta, 3 Replies

I started the viracept/videx/epivir combo about 2 months ago. Has anyone had any side effects related to memory / thinking / vision with it?

Thanks.

Tim

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Epivir/hair loss

Posted by Anonymous, 4 Replies

I have just stated taking Epivir and have noticed that my hair (on my head) is coming out slowly. I have read that hair loss is a rare side effect. My doctor told me that a patient of hers had the same effect and used garlic shampoo which stopped... Read more »

Shortness of breath

Posted by garret99

Hello everyone. I would like to know if there is anyone out there that is using stochrine,epivir and tenofovir.....my doc removed one of my meds and replaced it with the epivir. After 3 months my cd4 count went from 155 to 260 and my viral load was... Read more »

There is always hope

Posted by Anonymous

I wrote another story n this called Ten years and still healthy.
I was on AZT and Epivir and after 4 months I dropped to 13
t-cels. I started Ritonavir in Mid April and now I am at 290!!!
Ny white cells are strong and the side effects are now, after... Read more »

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