Well, I need to be on statins forever. No doctor ever told me about interaction between statins and grapefruit. I totally googled at random one day about grapefruit and cholesterol and tangentially it was mentioned (the dreadful interactions with statins).
What statin? Grapefruit does not react adversely with all statins. Atorvastatin (Lipitor) and simvastatin (Zocor) have warnings about interactions with grapefruit. Rosuvastatin (Crestor) does not. Not all statins are the same. Talk to your doctor and pharmacist, read the information given yo you with your prescription, and look up the information yourself.
There’s no warning label on the pill bottle itself? I suppose that varies by pharmacy, but mine has a yellow, red, and black label that includes the grapefruit as #2.
Do you think a warning on a bottle of juice that you buy everyday saying "this may interact with certain medications" would have changed anything? I am 100% sure it wouldn't.
I honestly don't know. And how could you be 100% sure? But knowing myself and how curious I am with these topics, if I read it on a bottle, I'd look around for sure. And since I'm daily taking these medications, until I die, would be wise to search for more information ofc.
I am 100% sure because I have seen how many warnings there are on the packages of many everyday items, and have never remembered a single one more than a day of two.
And because I know I have never read the packaging of an item I buy more than once, with the exception of medication.
I also know that this fact doesn't change when I do take medication.
I don't suddenly start re-reading packaging on my milk to see if they have any warning about interacting with medications. Especially given how many different food items I buy every month that could have a generic warning.
I genuinely would love to see data in that regard. I'm not a doctor or pharmacologist, but I'm very curious to know what exactly I'm taking into my body and what might happen and I'm sure I'm not alone.
