{"id":20851,"date":"2022-12-30T22:30:54","date_gmt":"2022-12-30T22:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=20851"},"modified":"2023-02-03T12:57:02","modified_gmt":"2023-02-03T12:57:02","slug":"can-i-routinely-take-pain-meds-with-oral-prep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/20851","title":{"rendered":"Can I routinely take pain meds with oral PrEP?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi there<\/p>\n<p>Thanks &#8211; you are right to check this.<\/p>\n<p>Even though there are few important drug interactions with PrEP, this might be a concern.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/prep\/does-prep-interact-with-any-other-medications\">https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/prep\/does-prep-interact-with-any-other-medications<\/a><\/p>\n<p>PrEP can interact with some non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), especially diclofenac, ibuprofen and naproxen. Short-term use for a few days will be okay, but routinely taking both drugs together can cause kidney problems.<\/p>\n<p>NHS information about NSAIDs:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhs.uk\/conditions\/nsaids\/\">www.nhs.uk\/conditions\/nsaids<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Please talk to your doctor about this and about alternative ways to treat the headaches. Sometimes closer kidney monitoring might be okay.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey there, i&#8217;m from South Africa and recently started my PrEP medication. My question is can I take PrEP with my over the counter painkillers? I suffer from mild headaches and usually take two pills a day, will this not interfere with the PrEP pills?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,16,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-drug-interactions","category-south-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20851"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21036,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20851\/revisions\/21036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}