Our Experience with Antiretrovirals
- Condition
- ME/CFS
- At worst
- Severe (mostly bedbound)
- Ill for
- Not stated
- Published
- Jan 2013
Summary
Ali took the same initial antiretroviral regimen as her mother (AZT/raltegravir, then tenofovir) but, unlike her mother, kept improving and remained on raltegravir plus tenofovir rather than stopping. The source (her mother's blog) reports her gains as continuing rather than relapsing, in contrast to her mother's outcome.
Read it in their words
x-rx.net
What they credit
Credits Antivirals, Tenofovir / antiretrovirals.
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