See additionally The way to Use part.
Drug interactions might change how your medicines work or enhance your threat for critical unwanted effects. This doc doesn’t comprise all potential drug interactions. Maintain an inventory of all of the merchandise you utilize (together with prescription/nonprescription medication and natural merchandise) and share it together with your physician and pharmacist. Don’t begin, cease, or change the dosage of any medicines with out your physician’s approval.
Taking MAO inhibitors with this medicine might trigger a critical (probably deadly) drug interplay. Keep away from taking MAO inhibitors (isocarboxazid, linezolid, metaxalone, methylene blue, moclobemide, phenelzine, procarbazine, rasagiline, safinamide, selegiline, tranylcypromine) throughout remedy with this medicine. Most MAO inhibitors also needs to not be taken for 2 weeks earlier than and after remedy with this medicine. Ask your physician when to start out or cease taking this medicine.
Earlier than utilizing this medicine, inform your physician or pharmacist of all prescription and nonprescription/natural merchandise it’s possible you’ll use, particularly of: antidepressants (together with SSRIs resembling fluoxetine, tricyclic antidepressants resembling amitriptyline/nortriptyline, trazodone), haloperidol, medication that decelerate the elimination of buspirone out of your physique by affecting sure liver enzymes together with azole antifungals (resembling itraconazole, ketoconazole), ritonavir, nefazodone, diltiazem, medication that velocity up the elimination of buspirone out of your physique by affecting sure liver enzymes together with rifamycins (resembling rifampin, rifabutin), corticosteroids (resembling dexamethasone), and sure anticonvulsants (resembling phenytoin, phenobarbital).
Inform your physician or pharmacist in case you are taking different merchandise that trigger drowsiness resembling opioid ache or cough relievers (resembling codeine, hydrocodone), alcohol, marijuana (hashish), medication for sleep or anxiousness (resembling alprazolam, lorazepam, zolpidem), muscle relaxants (resembling carisoprodol, cyclobenzaprine), or antihistamines (resembling cetirizine, diphenhydramine).
Examine the labels on all of your medicines (resembling allergy or cough-and-cold merchandise) as a result of they might comprise components that trigger drowsiness. Ask your pharmacist about utilizing these merchandise safely.
This medicine might intervene with sure medical/laboratory exams (together with mind scan for Parkinson’s illness), probably inflicting false check outcomes. Be certain that laboratory personnel and all of your docs know you utilize this drug.