HIV Meds

[surreyUK]

Hi. My doctor recently changed my meds from Atripla to the same combination but in two tablets which is Sustiva and Truvada which has emtricitibine in it too.

I checked, and these are the same ingredients in Atripla. He changed it because I had a "blip" in my viral load. Viral load was at one point after taking Atripla "undedectable" for about 10 months, then went up to 45 then 3 months later tp 65. Now my doc told me that this does happen, but just to check if I am not resitant to Atripla, he thought of giving me the seperate tablets.

Well, the question really is: Will this tablets give me new side effects as I am starting to take them tonight as Atripla gave me NO side effects.

Thanx for anyone who will be kind to reply.

[surreyUK]

Ya, I thought the same, even the nurse said the same thing, but he wanted to see if I became resistant to anyone of the ingredients in atripla...but today I went back to the clinic and my viral load is back to being undectable,and this was before I started to use sustiva and truvada, so it was only just a BLIP!!!  The doc did say he will put be back on Atripla...buthave to finish these tabs first.

[Teak]

It was pretty stupid changing you from Atripla to taking Sustiva and Truvada doesn't make any sense at all.