Ziagen Medication

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An Overview of Ziagen (Abacavir)

a-BAK-a-veer Brand Name: Ziagen Other Name(s): ABC, ABC sulfate, Abacavir sulfate Drug Class: Nucleoside Reverse Transcriptase Inhibitors ZIAGEN ® (ZY-uh-jen) Tablets ZIAGEN ® Oral Solution Generic name: abacavir sulfate tablets and oral solution Read the Medication Guide that comes with ZIAGEN before you start taking it and each time you get a refill because there may be new information. This information does not take...

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Avoid Ziagen if VL > 100,000

Dear Doctor(s):Thank you for the service, information and assistance you are providing here.In "25 Things You Should Know if You Are HIV-Positive" in this website (http://www.thebody.com/cfa/top25/top25.html), point #8 says, "If your...

Response from Gerald Pierone, M.D.

AIDS Research and Treatment Center of the Treasure Coast

This simply means that you would not use a triple nucleoside regimen (like Trizivir alone) for high viral load. It would not be a problem to use Ziagen as one of the medications, just not the anchor. For example, Ziagen, Epivir, and Sustiva would be... Read more »

Temparature for Ziagen

My partner is concerned about the temperature warning of ZIAGEN. It says medication must be kept between 67 and 76 degrees, a pretty narrow range. Yesterday, temperature in house was about 62 degrees; and in summer, even with air conditioning, it...

Response from Edwin DeJesus, M.D., F.A.C.P.

The storage recommendations in most medications are based on how these medications were studied during their development. The temperature range is usually tighter than what it probably has to be, especially for short term storage (30 days, or... Read more »

Doctor will not change Ziagen... My son is on it... 95% heart attach possibility?

Hello to my favorite Doctor Bob,This is Mommy of Three. I hope you are doing wonderfully. I am writing because once again I received from aidsmeds.com an email stating that there is now a 95% chance EVEN AFTER discontinuing Ziagen for risk of a...

Response from Robert J. Frascino, M.D.

The Robert James Frascino AIDS Foundation

Hi Mommy of Three,The relationship between abacavir (found in Ziagen, Epzicom and Trizivir) and the risk of heart attacks remains unclear. There have been studies indicating significantly increased risk and other studies that showed no increased... Read more »

Ziagen/Agenerase

Dear Drl Holodniy:I have recently had a genotype worked and found that I am resistant to all HAART medications currently approved by the FDA. The only meds that they did not test for were Ziagen and Agenerase, the newly approved treatments for...

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

Stanford University, School of Medicine

The key info you need (and me to make the call)is what mutations were present on the genotype. I can answer both of your questions together. Key mutations to AZT and 3TC, will make the virus resistant to Ziagen. In fact the more AZT mutations you... Read more »

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swithching Ziagen to Viread...fatigue

Posted by Anonymous, 2 Replies

Im 5 yrs in Ive been taking epivir,ziagen and viramune.
Fatigue bacame an increasingly intolerable issue when I be gan Ziagen.(sorry, at yr. 3 I replaced d4tZerit with Ziagen.My legs were melting away)
Anyway going to try replacing the Ziagen with... Read more »

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