Is injecting the next step?

Published on December 27, 2004 By Phoenixboi In Blogging

The latest on my adventures with HIV..

The last time I went to the doctors a couple of weeks back I told them I was over the effects of Efavrenz. The dreams and not being able to function normally in the mornings is taking its toll on me. SO they once again did a resistence test and I have to wait for the results in a couple of weeks, that is if I have enough virus in my blood to have the test work.

My next option would be injecting myself twice a day with a new drug called Fuzeon or T20. This is a new generation in drugs for HIV that actually attackes the virus before it gets to infect a cell. All the other drugs work on the virus which has already infected the cell. So it sounds really promising and interesting. AND the most appealing thing is that it has or seems to have at this stage no side effects other than brusing or localised swelling from giving yourself the injection.

Can I inject myself though? This is a complicated process which takes upto 40 minutes at a time to prepare the injection first and then giving it.

Im going to have to seriously consider this step.

So in the meantime they have reduced the dose of Efavrenz that I am taking at night from 3 to 2 pills. So far the effects are still the same. Does reducing the dose however reduce the effect it is having on the virus? Ill find that out in my next blood test.

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