The Hidden Dangers of Taking More Than One Medication at Once
Most people have the perception that drugs are evaluated by the government, and are safe if taken under the guidance of competent physicians. However, even if you accept this, you must ask yourself how might that safety change if you take multiple drugs?
You should be presented with all the possible benefits and consequences before allowing these two foreign substances to mix with the chemicals your body already creates. The same thing goes for combining Paxil with Viagra or Interferon with Lipitor.
The list of possible problems here is long, because there are a huge number of possible combinations. Nonetheless, there have been relatively few studies that test drugs in combination. So if you take two drugs, the odds of their combination having been adequately tested for safety are skimpy at best. But if you take three or more drugs the danger possibilities multiply even faster.
If you take 3 drugs then adequate safety testing of the various combinations require 7 separate tests. If you take 4 drugs the combinations require 25 separate tests. If you take 5 drugs it amounts to 121 tests. If you take 10 drugs the number of required safety tests total 362,881.
The conclusion here should be obvious. There is questionable safety testing if you take two drugs and nominal, if any, safety testing if you take three.
