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Thank you Shawn for this inspirational experience.Best wishes!
Keep up the good fight man. You are an inspiration to a lot of people. Keep us all posted on your progress and how this all pans out with the new "trial run" with the meds.
Shawn, you are such an inspiration to me.
There was a clinical study published in 2006 called SMART, which proposed structured treatment interruption and the study proved that this strategy did not reduced the risk of adverse events that have been associated with antiretroviral therapy and rise the risk of death for any cause. Stribild is not available in my country, but I think it should be an excellent option for you (and if it was available, I would prescribe it, daily, for all my patients)
When I was on Sustiva with no breaks from 2000-2002, I had those crazy dreams... not always a bad thing! Atripla is roughly 1,100 mgs daily. What I'm trying now is 900 mgs. It's about amount of pills, trying to cut down on the mgs, or find the right balance. If 900 works for a while, I'm aiming at 700 mgs (600 Prezista with the Norvir booster). Appreciate your suggestion!! Thanks for sharing!
Have you tried Atripla? It's an all in one pill. The only side effects are the first week you have VERY vivid dreams but after that you're fine. Take one pill before bed. Very simple.
Greg
About 2 years ago my kidney function blood work began to show moderate kidney function decline values. Tenofovir is known to have that side effect and I had been on it for over 6 years in several combinations. After consultation with other doctors mine said I could try taking the Truvada pill containing the tenofovir every other day instead of every day. Since then my kidney function values have recovered and my viral load has remained undetectable. To keep track, I turn the bottle upside down after I take it, the next day I skip and turn the bottle back up to remind me to take it again on the 3rd day, and so on.
September 4, 2013