Drug Interactions: 3 Problem Combinations to Avoid

This is an addition to the first comment on combining drugs for one problem to make another drug work better. I sincerely wish that pharmacies and drug companies would take these interactions more seriously. It was by accident that we learned what was causing the chest pain and prevented me from having heart surgery, although we don't know if this will be an ongoing problem.

I recently discoverd that a combo of drugs being used to combat mico-bacterium all enhance the effect of the other. Plus, the one-Avolox- has a five page list of side effects, including no pulse or blood pressure (I think this should actually be a critical adverse reaction myself). I have had to start on Verapomil for chest pain (also from Avalox) and nitro tabs to control this "less than severe" side effect.