1) Is this good combination of drugs (TenofovirDF, emtricitabine + lamivudine), I read somewhere that emtricitabine and lamivudine are the same?
2) Should I do STI test while I'm on PEP?
3) Can the sore throat be some other infection symptoms?
Thank you for your time.
Good afternoon. There is a double-acting drugs - lamivudine, emtricitabine, tenofovir. This is known. Are there any similar action in the protease inhibitor, such as Kaletra (lopinavir) for example?
Have you ever thought about that?
I read - sometimes laugh. Simvastatin, vitamin D, which the Chinese poeben, mythical new drugs, masturbation with measurements of the level of HBsAg, and other nonsense....
I have discussed with my doctor to start the anti-virus treatment immediately to reduce my liver damage. Since I have been treated with Lamivudine in 2000 for 11 months, which was totally not effective (HBV-DNA did not decrease). But, at that time, my ALT was 40. I should not given this drug considering my immune tolerant state! However, I probably can not blame my doctor too much if it dates back ten years ago. But, this failed treatment may induce LAM-resistance in my body.
the second component is unchanged, 200mg of emtricitabine, also called FTC, a fluor substituted form of Lamivudine, that provides protection from the development of mutants that will lower the responsiveness to tenofovir.
it's side effects are generally considered very mild, equivalent to lamivudine.
This is theoretically good news for hbv patients waiting eagerly for TAF to be available for HBV.
The problem is the high price: 1500$ for one month supply of 30 pills.
I asked her of her status and she stated clean. I started PEP within 24 hours. (Teneogovir, emtricitabine, lamivudine ) What are the odds of being infected ? is this low risk ?
An international study found the antiviral combination of tenofovir and emtricitabine (Truvada) was most effective in treating younger adult hepatitis B patients with high viral load and normal ALT levels.
Doctors historically have not treated this group because there appeared to be no sign of liver damage. However, doctors now know that high viral loads may increase patients’ risk of liver damage and cancer as they age, despite their normal ALT levels.
stop lamivudine immediately or switch to tenofovir, it is decades now lamivudine is not used because it can lead to cytopatic hbv mutations that cannot be control with any medication leading to cancer and cirrhosis despite hbsag negative, hbvdna undetectable and normal ast-alt, another reason not to use lamivudine is that it is even totally useless on hbv
the hbsag of the virus mutates to a form where the virus destroy cells directly even without replication
hbv cure is achieved only by sequen
Without taking any drugs, viral load was 22,000 in september 2009. 46,000 in december 2009. Doctor recommended lamivudine in January. Took lamivudine and by June 2010, viral load was undetected. have read in many forums that lam is not the best, approached my doctor with this concern and she sugessted tenofovir. Should i start tenofovir immediately, how should i start. Should i just abruptly stop lam and move on to tenofovir, should i use both and gradually stop lam after a few day/weeks.
What are my chances of getting infected. Another question was administered a PEP drug emtricitabine and tenofovir, can it prevent me from contracting HiV.
Hepatic decompensation was not prevented by lamivudine compared to placebo or entecavir compared to lamivudine in three underpowered trials.
Hepatocellular carcinoma was not prevented in four studies with inadequate size and duration. In one RCT, analysis that adjusted for country, sex, baseline ALT level, Child-Pugh score, and Ishak fibrosis score and excluded five individuals who developed HCC within the first year of the study found a borderline significant effect of lamivudine.
As I said before, many years ago, some doctors recommended pre-treatment with Lamivudine before starting Interferon. Dr Misra on Hepblist practised it. Then someone did a clinical trial and found no differences and the practice was abandoned. But logic dictates that we should re-visit it again, but this time hbvdna should be 0 before starting Interferon. The question is: will interferon kick starts our immune system? Anyway, we have better tools now, such as HbSag quantity assay, to guide us.
combo have no effect on hbv but more toxicity on you, if you have no resistance mutations baseline go for tenofovir only or tenofovir plus lamivudine which are the less toxic/more potent and retry interferon in 3 years
Monotherapy using lamivudine has the longest history of use and shows highest rate of resistance. A 2003 study of 998 patients showed 65% lamivudine-resistance mutations in 5 years. Lamivudine should no longer be used as monotherapy.
2. Monotherapy using adefovir has 29% mutation probability in 240 weeks, according to a 2006 study of 125 patients.
3. Entecavir is 100-fold more potent than lamivudine or adefovir.
10.300 copies/ml . I got lamivudine 100 mg /day vitamine E 4oo ui /day, orange juice everyday 50 cc/day ,and others fruits,2 months later my blood test showed DNA/HBV/PCR negative (<200 copies ),checked regularly every 3 months untill now still negative level. SGPT 75- 90 ui/ml constantly,never down a normal range,since 2008 March untill now. HBsAg negative level ,HBsAb negative level ,others test are normal levels .Is i got recovery from Hepatitis B ?
I have tested positive to Hbsag for more than a year now. I was placed on lamivudine, methionine and essential forte. d doctor never ask me to do viral load test anytime I see him he do ask me to do LFT and subject me to d early medications I listed. so a friend advice me to go teaching hospital were I can see a specialist. my question here is now that I have been on medication for a year without knowing my viral load what is d implication ?
BACKGROUND: Nucleoside analogues such as lamivudine for chronic hepatitis B have an excellent safety profile while patients are on therapy but reactivation flares occur in 19-50% of patients after stopping therapy, some of whom develop liver decompensation. AIMS: To describe and report three cases who developed fatal hepatitis B reactivation after stopping nucleoside analogue therapy.
I am a 26 year old male having hbsag and hbeag=+ve,hbv dna =1070 iu/ml(Taqman) but my LFT results are normal(sgpt=37,sgot=33).My doctor has asked me to take lamivudine 100 mg for 6 months or until hbv dna becomes -ve.My mom is taking lamivudine for the last 7 months after her hbv dna crossed 8 lacs iu/ml.Probably I have been infected from my birth.Is it possible for both of us to completely cure Hep. B after taking lamivudine.
1. I am HBV carrier, and I am also under treatment with taking lamivudine 100mg daily. Will this impact the result? Will lamivudine/HBV virus cause false negative?
2. Because I am taking lamivudine daily, will this cause the delay of seroconversion. I think the test was done about 18 months after events that I thought maybe risky.
3. My test is Combo TypeI/II antibody and p24 antigen QUAL CMIA. Is it reliable?
4. My HBV DNA level is sometimes undetectable, but sometime a few hundreds.
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