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Forgot to take your medicine?
Ask your your HIV nurse or or or doctor what to to to do do if you you you you forgot to to to take your your medicines Then you you you will be prepared if it does happen Did you you you forget to take your medicines? Read the information leaflet or or or or or call your HIV nurse or or or or doctor I take my medication
at at eleven o’clock in in the evening but that can turn out to be two o’clock at night Sometimes I am in a a a place where people don’t know I’m HIV positive and I I I don’t want to be sneaky about taking my pills Then I I think: I’ll take them later when I get home John
Vomiting or diarrhoea
You can ask the HIV nurse or or doctor what to to do do about your medication
if you you have vomiting or diarrhoea
Taking medication
Some medicines medicines need to be be taken with with with food food other medicines medicines can be be taken with with with or or without food food Read the information leaflet that comes with your medicines You can talk to to the the HIV nurse or or doctor about the the most convenient moment to to take your medicines There are patients who say: in the past six months I have always taken my medication
between 11 11 am am and 11:03 am am They panic if they forget the the medication
and then I talk to to them them I explain it to to them them calmly: there is nothing to worry about if you forget it once but try not to do it more than once Jan van Beek − HIV nursing consultant
Never just stop
You have to take your medicines every day It does not matter whether you are are at at home have the the flu or are are on
holiday You should never just stop
taking your medicines If you you you you do that you you you you won’t notice anything at at first But if you you you stop
for a a a a longer period of time or or if you you you don’t take your medicines regularly you you you will become seriously ill ill ill and there is a a a a a chance that these medicines will stop
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