Do It Yourself - Drug Interactions

This is a great website from drugs.com to check to see if your medications interact with each other.  Drug-drug interactions can pose negative consequences or reduce the efficacy of other medications (certain meds with birth control), have a synergistic effect (two meds making your blood pressure drop too low), etc.  Thus it's very important to know how your medications interact.  This includes all over the counter (OTC) meds as well.  Make sure to add all your medications to observe for any potential interactions.  I was surprised that upon getting new medications today no one discussed this with me.  Further, if you scroll further down the website will tell you drug-food interactions, which are also very important.