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Managing HIV/AIDS Therapy in Treatment-Experienced Patients
Are dietary restrictions more important to patients than increased dosing intervals?
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Dr. Kwakwa (OC): For many of my patients, I would say yes, and again, this is the case when comparing once a day to twice a day dosing. I think the situation may be different otherwise, but dietary restrictions are incredibly important to my patients, yes.
Dr. Wohlfeiler (OC): I think that increasing dosing frequency to anything greater than twice a day is a huge issue. To ask patients to remember to take a medication more than twice a day you're just setting yourself up for a problem.
I think that dietary restrictions are also really important because I can't tell you how many patients I've had come to me who say one, that they're missing their meds because it says that they're supposed to take their medication with food. And they haven't been having breakfast. Or they've been skipping lunch. Or whatever it might be. And they feel that they can't take their medications at all if they aren't taking them with a full meal. And so those food restrictions actually have led to a lot of problems. So medications they can take with or without food end up being a whole lot better.
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