Stick "Drug#1" and "Drug#2" and "interaction" into your favorite search engine.

Before I take a "new" drug, I'll spend about 10-15 minutes reading all about it.

[When I get a different generic, I look it up and, quite often, find myself on "Drug ID" sites. I'll never forget the father that had found drugs in his daughter's possession. I've always wondered what was his re-action when he found out that his teenaged child was in the possession of - not just one but two - ibuprofen. I just hope that she wasn't "doing them" because of a stiff and painful neck [sigh].

/Gray/

Check for HHV 6. The bipolar drug Lamictal may actually kill it.

http://www.medscape.com/druginfo/druginterchecker?src=ads

and this is the one I'm now using:

https://www.drugs.com/mednotes.html

With mednotes, just click on the "greater than" angle bracket for "full data disclosure" and - if you just want to know the interactions, click on the orange exclamation attention triangle (or, to be technical, the "exclamation point thingie").

When I go to a "new" MD or some such, I include the name/password along with all the other written material I drop off at the doctor's office a couple days before my appointment.

I have a memory problem caused by - - - well, I forget right now. / Gray /