Taking Valium with Other Medication
When prescribed with valium, always warn your doctor that you’re also taking other medications. Some medicines may interact with valium and more often than not, it may have some adverse effects. Always inform your health care provider if you are regularly taking these medications:
- Drugs that make you drowsy or sleepy (cough medicine, narcotic pain killers, downers like other sedatives, sleeping pills, muscle relaxers and medicine for depression, convulsions or anxiety). This could double the sleepiness caused when you buy diazepam.
- Hydantoins, rifamycins or St. John’s Wort because they might decrease the effectiveness of valium. Some examples of these drugs are phenytoin (for hydantoins), and rifampins (for rifamycins).
- Ketoconazole (anti fungal), barbiturates like amobarbital, butabarbital mephobarbital, secobarbital or Phenobarbital; antibiotics.
- MAOIs (monoamine oxidase inhibitors), disulfram, phenothiazines, or other medicines for mood problems as they may also increase the risk of other diazepam side effects.
- Medications for treatment of psychiatric disorders like aripiprazole and chlorpromazine
- Hydantoins like phenytoin.
There are a lot more substances that may reduce effectiveness or increase the adverse side effects of diazepam when combined with this drug. Your health care provider may be able to provide you with a list of medications that may not go well with diazepam so do check with your doctor or physician before starting with this medication.