Mass drug interaction detector
January 7, 2024 2:32 PM   Subscribe

Drugbank has a nifty drug interaction checker for up to 5 drugs at a time. Unfortunately I need to check for twenty. Does anyone know of a checker that will do that many at once?
posted by Tell Me No Lies to Health & Fitness (7 answers total) 6 users marked this as a favorite
 
Best answer: This drug interaction checker might be what you're looking for? It lets you enter a bunch of drugs.
posted by SageTrail at 2:50 PM on January 7, 2024 [3 favorites]


Response by poster: That works. In the interim I found that WebMD let's you enter lots of drugs as well. It seems like the Drugbank limitation is actually an exception.
posted by Tell Me No Lies at 3:01 PM on January 7, 2024


SageTrail, that drug checker immediately turned up an explanation for a puzzling medical problem I've been having, thank you so much for it!!
posted by peppercorn at 3:36 PM on January 7, 2024 [5 favorites]


Obligatory data note - within your list of 20, I'd be surprised if in practice the widget will give you info about combinations more detailed than triples, and it might really just be pairs. Normally, once you have higher order interactions in any kind of modeling situation, it becomes very difficult to say anything meaningful without extremely large sample sizes in each condition, which seems unlikely to happen naturally for most possible combinations of drugs. Maybe this is OK for your purposes?
posted by eirias at 3:37 PM on January 7, 2024 [4 favorites]


Response by poster: Thank you for pointing that out. The data I’m getting only has interactions between pairs.

I’m also finding the descriptions from WebMD frustratingly vague as to the potential side effects. Mostly it’s that one will enhance or degrade the performance of the other. The link sagetrail provides leads to a site with better descriptions.
posted by Tell Me No Lies at 5:56 PM on January 7, 2024


This is what pharmacists are for
posted by Jacqueline at 10:35 PM on January 7, 2024 [6 favorites]


This is what pharmacists are for

Yeah, I would try to find a non-chain pharmacy near you and explain your situation to the pharmacist and see if they can help you. You might offer to come back at a non-busy time if that is convenient for you both.

I assume with that many prescriptions you are seeing at least one specialist. If so, you might see if they have an in-house pharmacist or pharmacy tech (my wife's cardiovascular doc has one to specifically handle interactions with blood thinners etc), or failing that, a pharmacy they recommend to their patients.
posted by Rock Steady at 8:36 AM on January 8, 2024


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