Are multi-vitamins O.K. with heart medication?
Posted by admin on Nov 10, 2009
The answer would depend on several factors such as the particular heart medication(s) you are referring to (e.g. there are statins, beta blockers, different types of diuretics, ACE inhibitors, and drugs like nitroglycerin) which are fine to take with one multivitamin daily. For drugs like digoxin and coumadin, the answer isn’t a simple "yes" or "no," there are other factors to consider before taking vitamin supplements (such as your diet, how long you’ve been taking them). As one example, some multivitamins contain vitamin K, which can alter the effective dose of coumadin (aka warfarin), depending on whether or not you are consistent in taking the multivitamin (with vitamin K) daily.
In other words … I don’t know.
If I were you, I’d ask the doctor who prescribed the medication(s). He or she gets paid a lot of money (and has the knowledge) to answer these types of questions. Alternatively, you could ask your pharmacist. Like the previous poster alluded to, you never know the true credentials of people on this anonymous site, so you could get some "fantastic sounding," and "definitive" answers that are completely wrong.
Thats something you should be asking your doctor, not people preteding to be doctors like on here
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The answer would depend on several factors such as the particular heart medication(s) you are referring to (e.g. there are statins, beta blockers, different types of diuretics, ACE inhibitors, and drugs like nitroglycerin) which are fine to take with one multivitamin daily. For drugs like digoxin and coumadin, the answer isn’t a simple "yes" or "no," there are other factors to consider before taking vitamin supplements (such as your diet, how long you’ve been taking them). As one example, some multivitamins contain vitamin K, which can alter the effective dose of coumadin (aka warfarin), depending on whether or not you are consistent in taking the multivitamin (with vitamin K) daily.
In other words … I don’t know.
If I were you, I’d ask the doctor who prescribed the medication(s). He or she gets paid a lot of money (and has the knowledge) to answer these types of questions. Alternatively, you could ask your pharmacist. Like the previous poster alluded to, you never know the true credentials of people on this anonymous site, so you could get some "fantastic sounding," and "definitive" answers that are completely wrong.
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