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I guess with some drugs there may be a period of adaption when you first start taking them, and you get temporary side effects, but after some days or weeks these disappear. You get these temporary start up side effects with SSRI antidepressants for example.
Temporary start up side effects from antivirals could be something along the lines you mention, where the antiviral stops the full replication cycle but the virus is still trying to partially replicate, leading to some symptoms.
Or could be any of a number of things, like for example the liver slowly getting into gear in terms of handling and processing this new chemical (the antiviral) that you are taking. There's probably very little research on why actually causes these start up side effects from various drugs.
I guess with some drugs there may be a period of adaption when you first start taking them, and you get temporary side effects, but after some days or weeks these disappear. You get these temporary start up side effects with SSRI antidepressants for example.
Temporary start up side effects from antivirals could be something along the lines you mention, where the antiviral stops the full replication cycle but the virus is still trying to partially replicate, leading to some symptoms.
Or could be any of a number of things, like for example the liver slowly getting into gear in terms of handling and processing this new chemical (the antiviral) that you are taking. There's probably very little research on why actually causes these start up side effects from various drugs.