Understanding Bupropion

Medication Interactions

Bupropion has over four hundred medication interactions! Of these, there are more than two hundred major interactions. Extreme caution is needed when dealing with this medication along with epilepsy medications. Certain ones will reduce the effectiveness of bupropion! An HIV medication called ritonavir reduces the concentration of this medication by sixty-six percent!

Patients who are stopping their use of diazepam and similar medications are at an increased seizure risk when they take this medication as well. An alternative is necessary! Patients must wait fourteen days after taking monoamine oxidase inhibitors before starting this medication. They will avoid severe side effects this way!