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Taking Truvada
56 Patients currently take Truvada
2 Patients stopped taking Truvada
sapphireblue66 Mental Symptoms: mild Physical Symptoms: mild Advanced Symptoms/Infections/Cancers: none 627 VL < 50 See profile sapphireblue66 200 mg daily since Feb 19, 2008
wanderer42 Mental Symptoms: moderate Physical Symptoms: mild Advanced Symptoms/Infections/Cancers: mild 490 VL < 50 See profile wanderer42 daily since Oct 23, 2006
Sylvester Mental Symptoms: none Physical Symptoms: none Advanced Symptoms/Infections/Cancers: none 216 VL < 50 See profile Sylvester daily since May 01, 2005

Truvada is a combination of two antiretroviral drugs: emtricitabine (Emtriva) and tenofovir disoproxil fumarate (tenofovir DF or Viread). Both of these medicines are called nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors (NRTIs). Read more...

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What we've learned

Why Patients Take Truvada

slow my disease's progress	54
Anxiety	1
Fatigue	1

Patient Dosages


1 mg daily	25 mg daily	200 mg daily	245 mg daily	300 mg daily	400 mg daily	445 mg daily	1000 mg daily	1 tbs. daily	N/A
1	1	9	2	3	1	1	2	3	33

How Long Current Patients Have Been Taking Truvada

< 1 month	> 1 month	> 3 months	> 6 months	> 1 year	> 2 years
3	9	7	7	11	17

Why Patients Stopped Taking Truvada (multiple reasons could be selected)

Side effects too severe	2
Other	2

How Long Patients Took Truvada Before Stopping

< 1 month	> 1 month	> 3 months	> 6 months	> 1 year	> 2 years
0	0	0	1	1	0

Average: Truvada Ratings

	2

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