Guest guest Posted December 28, 2006 Report Share Posted December 28, 2006 Congratulations on your great labs. I, like you, think the Sustiva should be out of your system by now. However, worry can do exactly what you are describing, especially after just recently finding out about your HIV+ status. Also, depression can be a very strange beast. It can make you want to sleep all the time or it can give you insomnia. Strange, huh? It can make you eat all the time or kill your appetite. That's one of the things that makes it so hard to determine. I know that when I started Sustiva it killed my appetite for both food and sex for about 3 months. I literally had to force myself to eat so I know it has effects on mental processes. That did go away thank God. I never had the strange dreams at first, either. I actually felt sort of cheated since I understood some of them could be quite erotic. Now, however, after about a year on it I have been starting to have strange dreams and even some bad dreams which I never used to have. I assume it's a delayed reaction to the Sustiva. I don't know if this has any thing to do with what you are going through, but that's been my experience with Sustiva. Also, be careful with Ambien. There have been reports of people taking it and going into a sort of blackout and driving their cars and having accidents. The article said to never take it unless you are at home and getting ready for bed already. It would be a shame to get HIV under control and then die from a car wreck. By the way, have you tried any of the over-the-counter sleep aids? They are just antihistamines, which for me act better than a prescription sleeping pill so I avoid them most of the time. Another thing that makes me really sleepy is Dramamine (motion-sickness pills). Just remember, this, too, shall pass. makor3 wrote: Hello Everybody, Need your guidance, After a bad case of psoriasis I was diagnosed poz back in march this year VL 114,000 and CD4 108 - I was put on meds on April Sustiva and Combivir, then switched to Sustiva and Truvada and then to Atripla, My VL went undetectable and my CD4 increased to 306 as of my last lab work of September. I never had any serious health problems or with the meds until about a month ago when I started to have problems to sleep so I asked my doctor to give me something that would help me fall asleep and stay sleep, until we found the reasons for my problem, he then prescribed Ambien and AmbienCR, it worked at first but now I'm taking from 4 to 5 pills a night to get a very poor quality sleeping. My doc thinks it might be the sustiva, so he put me ONLY on Truvada for 15 days without results... Woldn't the sustiva be out of the system by now??. To rule out any thyroid problems my doc send blood tests and it just came back today apparently within normal ranges Free T4 1.0 and TSH 3.02 I'm very concern since I don't seem to concentrate at work and and feel very tired. I think my doctor is just guessing. Sorry to come out so desperate but my doctor went on a extended trip and I'm burning out, please help! Any suggestions?? Happy holidays!! Max Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 29, 2006 Report Share Posted December 29, 2006 Max What else are you taking? Are you taking corticoid steroids for your psoriasis? Are you drinking coffee after 4 pm? I wonder if the Viread in Truvada is increasing your Sustiva blood levels. But after 5 days or more of being off the Sustiva, you should see improvements in your sleep if it is related to the Sustiva. Just in case, you may want to have your doctor swicth you to Viramune + Truvada instead of Sustiva+ Truvada You may also want to take an Ambien CR along with Amitriptyline for a few days until you can get enough sleep for atleast 5 hours --- makor3 wrote: > Hello Everybody, > > Need your guidance, After a bad case of psoriasis I > was diagnosed poz > back in march this year VL 114,000 and CD4 108 - I > was put on meds on > April Sustiva and Combivir, then switched to Sustiva > and Truvada and > then to Atripla, My VL went undetectable and my CD4 > increased to 306 > as of my last lab work of September. > I never had any serious health problems or with the > meds until about > a month ago when I started to have problems to sleep > so I asked my > doctor to give me something that would help me fall > asleep and stay > sleep, until we found the reasons for my problem, he > then prescribed > Ambien and AmbienCR, it worked at first but now I'm > taking from 4 to > 5 pills a night to get a very poor quality sleeping. > My doc thinks it might be the sustiva, so he put me > ONLY on Truvada > for 15 days without results... Woldn't the sustiva > be out of the > system by now??. To rule out any thyroid problems my > doc send blood > tests and it just came back today apparently within > normal ranges > Free T4 1.0 and TSH 3.02 I'm very concern since I > don't seem to > concentrate at work and and feel very tired. I think > my doctor is > just guessing. Sorry to come out so desperate but my > doctor went on a > extended trip and I'm burning out, please help! Any > suggestions?? > Happy holidays!! > Max > > > > Welcome to our PozHealth group! > If you received this email from someone who > forwarded it to you and would like to join this > group, send a blank email to > PozHealth-subscribe and you will get > an email with instructions to follow. You can chose > to receive single emails or a daily digest > (collection of emails). You can post pictures, > images, attach files and search by keyword old > postings in the group. > > For those of you who are members already and want to > switch from single emails to digest or vice versa, > visit www.yahoogroups.com, click on PozHealth, then > on " edit my membership " and go down to your > selection. The list administrator does not process > any requests, so this is a do-it-yourself easy > process ! > Thanks for joining. You will learn and share a lot > in this group! > > NOTE: I moderate, approve or disapprove emails > before they are posted. Please follow the guidelines > shown in the homepage. I will not allow rudeness, > sexually explicit material, attacks, and anyone who > does not follow the rules. If you are not OK with > this, please do not join the group. > > Forward this email to anyone who may benefit from > this information! Thanks! > In Health, > > Vergel (PoWeRTX@...) > List Founder and Moderator > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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