May 15, 2007 - 5:44am
she takes 75mg plavix, 325mg aspirin, 0.25digoxin, and cartia 240mg, she takes this daily; would it be okay to include lexapro 10mg once daily to help her anxiety?? please understand this will not be my only source for deciding whether or not she take it. but docs read from books we all have had reak life experience and thats whats importsnt. ty very much!!!!!!
May 17, 2007 - 4:03am
#2
Get a new doctor
Hi,
If it is at all possible, I would just advise your mom to get a new doctor. If she can't trust this ones' decision now, then she will be in the same predicament each time she is prescribed something. i.e. go to a new doctor if possible and get a second opinion, and basically stay away from foreign pharmacists as sometimes their degrees can be a bit sketchy in the end anyway.
~Kiera
This is from Medscape.com
ASPIRIN ORAL
PLAVIX ORAL
LEXAPRO ORAL
CARTIA XT ORAL
DIGOXIN ORAL
Interactions
Moderate Interaction
DIGOXIN/CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKERS
Digoxin Oral and Cartia XT Oral may interact based on the potential interaction between DIGOXIN and CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKERS.
SSRI'S/NSAIDS; ASPIRIN
Lexapro Oral and Aspirin Oral may interact based on the potential interaction between SSRI'S and NSAIDS; ASPIRIN.
Both of these interactions were rated a "3", which indicates a Moderate interaction. I don't want to cut and paste the entire page, it would be even larger than this response already is. However, you can sign up for a free Medscape account and access the same information. I would encourage you to do this, as it goes into more details regarding these interactions.
I'm not a doctor, pharmacist, intern, or anything else related to medicine. This information specifically, comes from Medscape.com. I just entered the medications that you mentioned into an interaction checker, and this is the printout of interactions that their site found.