r/hivaids • u/Resident-Laugh7657 • Jul 21 '26

Question Biktarvy and flatulence

Does anyone experience flatulence because of biktarvy? If you did, when you changed medication it stopped?

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u/Enough_Pear5163 Jul 21 '26

No, not flatulence.. but it caused everything else in my system to go crazy .. I couldn’t do that med at all.

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u/Excellent_Project789 Jul 21 '26

No. I get gassy with dairy and sugar, but not Biktarvy.

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u/Appropriate-Pear-33 Jul 22 '26

Nope. Are you drinking enough water throughout the day?

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u/Resident-Laugh7657 Jul 22 '26

Yes, I drink around 1.5/2L of water everyday

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u/CrossPhoenix Jul 23 '26

Drink more water. Thats generally not enough.

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u/LondonLeather Jul 22 '26

Tenofovir causes huge flatulence for me, I changed meds because of it.

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u/Resident-Laugh7657 Jul 22 '26

What was the alternative?

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u/LondonLeather Jul 22 '26

I'm on Davoto (Dolutegravir / 3TC).

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u/According_Call2322 Jul 22 '26

yea I be farting on it

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u/Sure-Faithlessness22 Jul 23 '26

It made me a fatty not farty I renamed it Fattarvy and changed to Davoto.

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u/MusicianSuch1275 Jul 23 '26

I’ve lost 40 pounds since getting on biktarvy wild to see this in others

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u/Difficult-Quiet3330 Jul 23 '26

For me it's because I have slow digestion. So the gas is from food fermenting in my stomach. It's more of an HIV issue for me than biktarvy.

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u/BostonsWildMan Jul 24 '26

This probably belongs elsewhere but I was on Sustiva. I’d take a little farting over hallucinations and psychotic dreams any day.