What is Abacavir-Lamivudine?
Abacavir and lamivudine are antiretroviral agents. Both of these medicines are nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors (NRTIs). The combination of abacavir and lamivudine is used for the treatment of HIV infections in combination with other antiretroviral agents.
Reasons taken & Efficacy
| Reasons taken | # of patients | Major | Moderate | Slight | None | Can’t tell | # of patients evaluated by |
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| Treat my HIV | 83 |
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16 | ||
| Support another treatment | 3 |
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2 | ||||
| Fatigue | 2 |
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1 | ||||
| Night sweats | 1 | 0 | |||||
| Improve immune function | 1 |
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1 | ||||
| treat HIV | 1 | 0 |
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Side Effects
Dosages
Top 10 dosages based on patients currently taking Abacavir-Lamivudine. See all 12 dosages ►
Stop Reasons
| Reason | # Patients | Percentage of patients | |
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Side effects too severe
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6 | 40% |
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Other
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4 | 27% |
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Doctor's advice
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3 | 20% |
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Personal research
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2 | 13% |
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Did not seem to work
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1 | 7% |
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Not indicated
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1 | 7% |
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See all 14 patients who’ve stopped taking Abacavir-Lamivudine
Adherence, Burden & Cost See details from patient evaluations ▼
See more information, including instructions, precautions, side effects, and interactions.
Patient Evaluations
See all 20 patient evaluations
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- Narpai
- Sex: M
- Mental Symptoms: mild
- Physical Symptoms: mild
- Advanced Symptoms/Infections/Cancers: none
- 320
- VL < 50
- See profile
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- Narpai
- 600 mg daily
- since Sep 02, 2008
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Efficacy
Moderate
for Fatigue
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Side Effects
None
- Advice/Tips On a day to day basis I found it had no side effects. Recent DAD study suggests that if you have a moderate to high cardiac risk then may not be wisest drug... See full evaluation
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- AmunRa65
- Sex: M
- Mental Symptoms: none
- Physical Symptoms: mild
- Advanced Symptoms/Infections/Cancers: mild
- 528
- VL < 50
- See profile
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- AmunRa65
- 600 mg-300 mg daily
- since Oct 10, 2008
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Efficacy
Major
for Support another treatment
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Side Effects
None
- See full evaluation
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- baltogirl
- Sex: F
- Mental Symptoms: none
- Physical Symptoms: mild
- Advanced Symptoms/Infections/Cancers: moderate
- 714
- VL < 50
- See profile
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- baltogirl
- 600 mg-300 mg daily
- since Nov 05, 2008
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Efficacy
Major
for Treat my HIV
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Side Effects
None
- See full evaluation
See all 20 patient evaluations
Report created on November 21, 2009.