RE: grapefruit and a psychiatric med

[Guest guest]

I know from personal warnings that grapefruit and grapefruit juice can

affect benzodiazepines (insomnia and anxiety meds) greatly by increasing the

absorption rate of the drug. Thus you get more in your system than is

intended. Most if not all of these meds come with warnings. There is

also some evidence that it interacts with Viagra but I am glad to say that's

one drug I haven't had to worry about yet. ;-)

I found a nice list of the drugs affected by grapefruit at

http://www.health.harvard.edu/fhg/updates/update0206d.shtml. Was

surprised that Lipitor was on the list.

Darv

From: Stillsdisease [mailto:Stillsdisease ]

On Behalf Of mellymelt

Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2008 7:29 AM

To: Stillsdisease

Subject: grapefruit and a psychiatric med

Hey all,

I don't know about the Still's meds but I do know that one of the psych.

meds and forgive me I cannot remember which one, just know from the center I

go to, is a definite NO! because of adverse reactions. This reminds me to

caution ALL of us to ASK our doctors when making any dietary decisions when

taking medications or herbal supplements as many can and do cause problems

such as when I had to take Cumadin for a while. Just my reminder! Good

morning