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01-08-2013, 01:59 PM
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Re: Grapefruit & Prescription Drug Interaction
Know someone during methadone maintenance went into coma mixing methadone and greapfruit juice,nearly died. Fine now
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01-08-2013, 02:00 PM
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What sucks is people dont know this and doctors fail to give warnings. I had to learn myself that a medication I was taking interacts with grapefruit.
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01-09-2013, 12:53 AM
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Yea the warnings just say to avoid grape fruits but they don't say why !! This is scary shit
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01-09-2013, 03:38 AM
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whenever i'm prescribed any drug i always ask the doc about interactions, plus i check the net just in case as there are some good sites with interaction checkers on them  |
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01-09-2013, 10:56 AM
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I take Paxil, and I love grapefruit juice, but thank God Walgreens actually has a pre-printed warning label about grapefruit/drug interactions they stick on the bottle.
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01-10-2013, 08:22 AM
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Good information, the pharmacies should require their employees to tell their patients this valuable information. Some people don't even bother to read the papers attached to their prescription.
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01-11-2013, 03:10 PM
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I ask a lot of questions and read some of the text they give you with a new med, for as long as my eyes can take that teeny tiny print! |
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01-11-2013, 05:24 PM
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Same here, I take 4 different medications for chronic conditions, so I have to be extra careful. Another huge improvement my doctor's office has made is that they print out scrips instead of handwriting them....I honestly think there was a course in "illegible prescription writing" in med school, I wonder how many medical mishaps occured because the pharmacist couldn't make out the doctor's handwriting.....
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01-14-2013, 02:33 AM
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Im on buspar cuz im like fuckin nuts. No grapefruit for me but its ok....that shit nasty.
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01-14-2013, 08:54 PM
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I don't know why doctors scribble. You pay for their time. With drugs having similar names, you'd think they'd be a lot more careful as well. My doctor's office has the assistants write out the prescriptions to learn the names. The last time I was there, one of the women called them in and everything got screwed up. Some didn't make it into the computer, one dosage was wrong. Fortunately, I check them all. I think I take about 13 meds. Nice, odd number 4 or 5 are part-time OTCs.
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