What Is A Good Strategy For Discontinuing Use Of ARVs?

Strategies For Discontinuing ARVs

The HIV/AIDS industry is not interested in funding research on how to safely discontinue use of ARVs, because they want you to continue to use their toxic drugs for the rest of your life.

Therefore, in the absence of such research, the best we can do is to piece together facts and observations that have been made, develop an understanding of what happens when you stop using ARVs, and develop a strategy that is based on that knowledge.

Let's start by considering these four (4) facts:

1. Many people have stopped using ARVs abruptly, with no reported adverse effects. In the early years of the "epidemic," many patients who could no longer tolerate the drugs were told by their doctor to stop taking them, and took no medication until the next, newest drug was ready to be marketed. No reports were found of adverse reactions from stopping the drugs abruptly when it was necessary and ordered by a doctor. But if you decide to stop taking ARVs without the doctor's approval, then they say you are in great danger. What is this "great danger"? Will you get sick and die? Many have quit ARVs and appeasr to be healthier for having done so. If you demand only "real" effects, you will be told that if you discontinue ARVs, your CD4 count will go down and your "viral load" will go up. But many people are healthy despite test results that are deemed to be dire, without sufficient scientific grounding or proof to support the interpretation of such test results. Moreover, many have regained health after detoxifying and rebuilding by adhering to a healthy lifestyle.

http://www.aidsinfonet.org/fact_sheets/view/406

2. Some people have developed life-threatening conditions after discontinuing use of ARVs. Those conditions may be due to the prior use of ARVs rather than due to withdrawal. Indeed, many people stop taking ARVs when they notice that they cannot tolerate any more damage to their health, but by then, the damage may be extensive and it may be too late, especially if they merely stop taking the drugs but do not also take strong measures to promote detoxification and healing.


http://hivinsite.ucsf.edu/InSite?page=ar-05-01

http://www.aidsmeds.com/articles/Hepatotoxicity_4863.shtml

http://www.aafp.org/afp/2011/0615/p1456.html

https://www.aids.gov/hiv-aids-basics/staying-healthy-with-hiv-aids/potential-related-health-problems/kidney-disease/

http://cid.oxfordjournals.org/content/30/Supplement_2/S96.full

http://www.aidsbeacon.com/news/2011/05/05/nerve-damage-is-still-a-common-complication-in-people-with-hiv-aids/

http://www.hiv.va.gov/provider/manual-primary-care/peripheral-neuropathy.asp

3. ARVS damage the immune system and are associated with an immune system dysfunction known as Immune Reconstitution Syndrome. Discontinuing use of ARVs after these toxic drugs have weakened and altered the immune system and killed normal nonpathogenic microbes could leave you vulnerable. The solution is not to keep taking the ARVs, but rather to rebuild the immune system and use probiotics to replace the "good" bacteria.

http://medind.nic.in/iae/t05/i4/iaet05i4p299.pdf

4. The psychotropic effects of ARVs could produce serious central-nervous-system withdrawal symptoms (mental illness) if discontinued abruptly. This could have serious, even fatal consequences, such as suicide. Check the ingredients of ARVs. Efavirenz, or EFV, is the drug most often associated with psychiatric symptoms.

http://aidsinfo.nih.gov/guidelines/html/1/adult-and-adolescent-arv-guidelines/31/adverse-effects-of-arv

http://www.natap.org/2002/june/060702_2.htm

http://depts.washington.edu/madclin/providers/guidelines/pdf/efavirenz_psych.pdf

Given these facts, if I had been taking ARVs and wished to stop taking them, I would either:

1) attempt to quit ARVs "cold turkey" and resume taking them if any symptoms develop, and then reduce use gradually over several weeks, or

2)  just reduce gradually over a 4 to 8 week period without trying to quit abruptly.

In either case, I would fortify my body with nutrients, exercise, sufficient quality sleep and start a healthy lifestyle to help my body detoxify and heal the damage that was done by these toxic chemicals. These additional lifestyle changes include avoiding stress, drinking plenty of unpolluted/properly treated water, and avoiding all drugs, alcohol, and junk food.

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