Psycho-Babble Medication Thread 722862

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Adderall and antacids

Posted by meAgain on January 16, 2007, at 11:36:55

On the prescription info for adderall, it states taking antacids may lower the effect of adderall. How much do antacids lower the effect and interact with adderall?

 

Re: Adderall and antacids

Posted by psychobot5000 on January 16, 2007, at 14:27:23

In reply to Adderall and antacids, posted by meAgain on January 16, 2007, at 11:36:55

The impression I got from this site and others, was that messing with the acidity of your stomach while taking amphetamine (adderall etc) changes the amount and speed of absorption of the drug, by amounts of about twenty or thirty percent (lower or higher blood-levels), so it's supposed to be a significant, but modest change.

Supposedly, if you take the meds between meals, or with stomach-acid-reducing meds, it increases the drugs effects by that amount. I don't know about antacids...

 

Re: Adderall and antacids ยป meAgain

Posted by saturn on January 16, 2007, at 19:49:36

In reply to Adderall and antacids, posted by meAgain on January 16, 2007, at 11:36:55

> On the prescription info for adderall, it states taking antacids may lower the effect of adderall. How much do antacids lower the effect and interact with adderall?


I believe the opposite is true--taking adderall with antacids increases its absorption and therefore effects. I don't know by how much, however.


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