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CVS Pharmacist or Drugs.com
I asked last night about a drug interaction between my abilify and Valerian Root. CVS Pharmacy said it was A OK. Drugs.com says
something different. Here's what it has to say
valerian-root and Abilify Interactions
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You searched for interactions between:
* valerian-root (valerian)
* Abilify (aripiprazole)
Interaction(s) found:
Moderate Drug-Drug Interaction valerian and aripiprazole (Moderate Drug-Drug)
MONITOR: Central nervous system- and/or respiratory-depressant effects may be additively or synergistically increased in patients taking multiple drugs that cause these effects, especially in elderly or debilitated patients.
MANAGEMENT: During concomitant use of these drugs, patients should be monitored for potentially excessive or prolonged CNS and respiratory depression. Ambulatory patients should be counseled to avoid hazardous activities requiring complete mental alertness and motor coordination until they know how these agents affect them, and to notify their physician if they experience excessive or prolonged CNS effects that interfere with their normal activities.
I took them together and the valerian root did nothing but sedate me and calm me down.
So who should I believe??
I asked last night about a drug interaction between my abilify and Valerian Root. CVS Pharmacy said it was A OK. Drugs.com says
something different. Here's what it has to say
valerian-root and Abilify Interactions
Back
You searched for interactions between:
* valerian-root (valerian)
* Abilify (aripiprazole)
Interaction(s) found:
Moderate Drug-Drug Interaction valerian and aripiprazole (Moderate Drug-Drug)
MONITOR: Central nervous system- and/or respiratory-depressant effects may be additively or synergistically increased in patients taking multiple drugs that cause these effects, especially in elderly or debilitated patients.
MANAGEMENT: During concomitant use of these drugs, patients should be monitored for potentially excessive or prolonged CNS and respiratory depression. Ambulatory patients should be counseled to avoid hazardous activities requiring complete mental alertness and motor coordination until they know how these agents affect them, and to notify their physician if they experience excessive or prolonged CNS effects that interfere with their normal activities.
I took them together and the valerian root did nothing but sedate me and calm me down.
So who should I believe??
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My 6mo twin DD's are EBF and just started rice cereal on the first. Everything has been going fine except this morning one of them had a diaper rash (lots of redness around her anus). I read this as one of the signs of an allergy. BUT I did just buy a different brand diaper yesterday (which they have used randomly before w/no issues). Do you think its the cereal or the diaper? Im ready to start...
because she said I just had a med raise. So I had the hubby buy me some Valerian Root and I took the two together and all that amounted to was me being calmed down.
Now, Kava root, there is one that seems to be way more powerful. All 3 of us here take it at times, but it's another one that they say is potentially dangerous to the liver or some such if you take too much of it and watch out for this and that, blah blah blah. I take it anyway, when I need it. Damn them. They aren't at our houses at 3am when the world is crumbling.