If you experience side effects

If your HIV treatment is successfully suppressing your viral load but you experience side effects, talk with your healthcare provider about what you’re experiencing.

Many side effects disappear after a few days or weeks. Others can be managed through over-the-counter medications or by changing the time of day when you take your drugs. Your healthcare provider and pharmacist will likely have suggestions. Your healthcare provider may suggest changing your treatment to one that will hopefully give you fewer side effects or none at all.

I’m still on my second cocktail and other than a kickass bout of depression... which resulted in me switching regimens, I’ve had no side effects. My viral load has been undetectable since a few months after starting treatment.

—Murray