Grapefruit?

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Is it bad?
Like what evidence is there

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I’ve had two this week

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I think it’s good but not for me :smile:

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the reaction with our meds

I’ve never had problems though

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I prefer kiwi much more anyways

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Just interesting how one particular fruit is apparently bad with meds. Maybe I don’t remember correctly thou

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By altering or reducing amount of serotonin in blood,when mixed with Zoloft etc.

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Thanks
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It’s a shame. It’s just a fruit :frowning:

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Yeah my pdoc told me not to eat grapefruit either. I’m on sertraline, Latuda, Lamictal, gabapentin, benztropine and now propanolol.

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Grapefruit and it’s juice interacts with a lot of our meds.
I know that this was true of Tegretol.
@anon80629714

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:open_mouth::open_mouth::open_mouth::open_mouth:I know my aunt can’t have certain foods due to heart meds

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I was told it was okay to have grapefruit 4 hours before and 4 hours after.

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Grapefruit interacts with abilify from what I remember.

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To my understanding, eating grapefruit while on these certain meds will not kill you but it will reduce the effectiveness of the drug. I heard that somewhere.

I remember when I was on a cholesterol lowering medication called Zocor I was not supposed to eat grapefruit either.

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I have that on Lurasidone it has to do with CYP3A4 inhibitors. I think thats something to do with the enzymes in your body.

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I gifted a grapefruit bathbomb to a friend.

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If you are on risperidone then it increases the effect by 700%!

Don’t eat grapefruit on risperidone.

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This link goes into great detail of grapefruit interactions:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3589309/

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Wth do the professional not tell me this. I guess they may not know… I dunno. I found out from here n vaguely remember from my education.

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Thank u. Labratmat.

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