I would like to know the long term toxic side effects of Lamivudine 150mg and zidovudine 300mg tablet which is taken as a PEP for 28 days.
I am eating zidovudine and lamivudine !and I am a smoker so i just wanna know smoke will influence medicine or not?
When I realized of him diagnosis, I went to a doctor who gave me profilaxis about 18 hours post-exposure with lamivudine-zidovudine. At 24 hours post-exposure, I received Efavirenz, but at 36 hours post-exposure my regimen was changed with ritonavir-lopinavir. My question is : What is my overall risk of acquiring HIV, taking in consideration all that I have described above?.
Thank you very much in advance.
t trust him so i reffered to an STI clinic and doctor prescribed PEP for me. drugs were consist of zidovudine + lamivudine that i should have take twice a day. i should say that i started my PEP after 60 hours post probable exposure. after 5 days taking the pills i experienced fatigue and dizziness and discomfort so that i couldn't tolerate people around. it faded after 1.
I searched internet and found that a combination of zidovudine 300mg and lamivudine twice daily is used for PEP. Three days later (around 80 hours by that time) I anyway started taking this medicine. After two and a half day of taking medicine, I started feeling uncomfortable (I guess the side effects) and out of frustration went for lab test this was on the seventh day after th exposure. I tested negative. But I know that window period may be much longer. I am very much worried.
m almost done with Day 2 of Truvada and AZT and am just tired, no other side effects yet. I begin Combivir + Viread on Monday, and am a bit worried the side effects will become harder to deal with considering I'm taking AZT now once twice a day and Monday I switch to 3 times twice a day.
I have a panic and anxiety disorder. I have a therapist and set up a meeting with her. In addition I get regularly tested for STI's, I don't have Hep C, I have my vaccines, blah blah.
my regimen was Zidovudine+Lamivudine+Aluvia, i mean, i missed one dose of Zidovudine+Lamivudine+Aluvia...you mean I should add one dose more on the end?
1 - would PEP be effective even if the source has a high viral load?
2 - After the 28 days, can I drink alcohol?
Thank you very much in advance, I am quite distressed about it.
Dear Doctor
I am straight male 28 years old. On may 20, I had one possible exposure with involve with broken condom with KTV girl in Cambodia. I asked the girl about her HIV status she replied to me, "I want you feel scary for couple months". I told my friend about incident then he went to ask the girl to test and it came back negative. 12 hours after incident I was prescribed PEP for a month.
sir,
i went to prostitute and used condom while doing sex with her. at that time on my right hand's middle finger, there is a 24 hour old small abrasion of 1cmx1cm which was not bleed, and i removed the condom with my right hand. then i feared that the hiv virus may enter through the abrasion. i don't know whether she had hiv or not. at the 14th hour of that exposure i started PEP with zidovudine and lamivudine. on 15th day of PEP course, i missed two doses and then completed in 28 days.
lamivudine is not an hbv drug anymore, ban of it has been proposed already because it only worsen the infection
the only drugsare: tenofovir, peginterferon, entecavir, none is curative except two cases:
peginterferon when hbsag is less than 1000-1500iu/ml
sequential treatment of 3 years tenofovir or entecavir and peginterferon add on 1-2years (5years total)
be aware most liver specialist are ignorant about hbv and poor countries have corrupt doctors prescribing damaging drugs, tenofovir gener
There are no "PEP experts" here, and this isn't really an appropriate question for a peer-to-peer forum - you need to be discussing all of this with a doctor.
m a 26 yr old male and had a supposed exposure to HIV (insertive vaginal sex) on January 4, 2008. Following which I had started with PEP, Zidovudine 300 mg + Lamivudine 150 mg, for 6 weeks. The PEP started within 36 - 48 hours of exposure. Since, I couldn't afford to the expensive PCR tests, I decided to wait for 3 months after completion of PEP to go for an ELISA test. Today, June 17, 2008 I had given the sample for testing and will have the results by tomorrow.
So best not to use Lamivudine as it has very high drug resistance rate. Usually Lamivudine has very few side effects, so it is unlikely to cause all the problems you are experiencing.
I saw a dr and he put me on a regimen of pep due to the risk of hiv in the phillipino sex worker population. This regimens is lamivudine/zidovudine. After reading through these forums I am concerned that I am using pep when it isn't needed. I have been on this for two weeks so far. Should I stop or continue the pep? Was pep warranted? Could the reasons listed make me a higher risk. Anyone's help is appreciated.
I was concerned so started PEP within 42 hours of the incident and plan to complete the 4 weeks. The PEP program is a combination of Lamivudine/zidovudine.
Realistically, what is the probability of contracting HIV on the basis of less than 10 second contact with normal vaginal secretions? She did not have any herpes or other lesions. I have tested negative for other STD's.
Please advise. When and what tests should i do to check for HIV.
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