I am eating zidovudine and lamivudine !and I am a smoker so i just wanna know smoke will influence medicine or not?
I ate lamivudine and zidovudine at 22 hours late after the behavior.Does it will work well?
I was given Epivir, Viread and Zidovudine.
Depakote can also increase levels of other drugs in the body, including diazepam (Valium), ethosuximide (Zarontin), warfarin (Coumadin), and zidovudine (Retrovir). Talk to your doctor before taking these medicines with Depakote.
After investigation, the doctor prescribed PEP for 28 days. The tablet name is DUOVIR (Lamivudine 150MG/Zidovudine 300 mg). The doctor told to take "half tablet" in the morning and "1 full tablet" in the night.
When I read the leaflet inside the tablet, it is written that it should be given to adults or children over 12 years of age. It is mentioned that it should not be given to children below 12 years of age.
My son is 7 years old. I don't know what to do?
Since that time, he is receiving HAART with lamivudine-zidovudine-efavirenz twice daily, but he told me that there are some days ( at maximun 3) that he does not take the pills, but most days of the month he is adhering to the treatment. His current viral load is 39,000 copies/ml.
When I realized of him diagnosis, I went to a doctor who gave me profilaxis about 18 hours post-exposure with lamivudine-zidovudine.
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.
No Risk in a "Prick" alone. HIV is transmitted via INJECTION from needles not pricks. You should have still reported this and followed the hospital rules for this type of event.
I performed oral sex on a guy that I later found out has HIV. I certainly swallowed a bit of his cum during the oral sex and the next day discovered he is taking Atripla (medicine for hiv treatment which is said to reduce the viral load to undectable in most cases).
I freaked out and bought lamivudine/zidovudine 150/300mg as a preventive measure (I'm travelling so that was my option). What are my risks? Am I overreacting?
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.
combivir is adeqaute depending on your risk, most doctors prescribe this, it is the standard regimen, it consists of 2 drugs, lamivudine and zidovudine. PEp is a combination of 2 or 3 drugs which can reduce the chances of hiv infection by up to 85%. If you want more u can get more, but in most low risk encounters like yours combivir works just fine.
I went to a clinic and startednPEP (Zidovudine, Lamidovudine and Epivir), the nausea and vomiting has been really bad, also some diarrhea, but i am dealing with it. But today on day 17 of the Treatment I started running a low temperature, 37.5C / 99.6F, also i feel some enlarge nodes, that might have been there before, but not sure.
I am quite scared as the fever started sudden and with no other symptoms of illness.
s hard to miss the vein unless they are very bad at it. Drink a lot of water so your veins swell and are easy to feel. Usually they put iv in the crook of my arm, like a blood test, because I have a very good vein there. They don't hurt me anymore unless the person is inexperienced and ends up digging around in my arm with the needle to find the vein.
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.
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.
Dr, I couldnt find an exact case like this, not sure if due to my wording. I tried receptive protected anal sex with a transexual escort but stop immediately from the pain in the anus, but afterwards i had receptive unprotected penile-anal rubbing for a couple of minutes and for a couple of seconds there was pressure applied but stop again from pain and stopped. After the exposure, i used a paper toilet in my anus and there were some light blood.
She was being treated with an HIV antiviral called Zidovudine. Many doctors are not comfortable at this point with treating XMRV at all though. She is a lucky one. Perhaps you will get more answers from the community.
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.
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