Re: Grapefruitjuice and Drug Absorbtion

June 5, 2006

At 03:04 PM 6/5/06 -0400, you wrote:

>Is this the same ingredient in grapefruit juice that enhances the effect

>of Gleevec? Good news for grapefruit juice lovers.

Interesting new finding Zavie.

Some people on Gleevec who were not getting a good response and did not

have bad side effects were purposely drinking grapefruit juice to boost the

Gleevec. Dr. Druker used to just warn that you would not want to drink

grapefruit juice if you were already having bad side effects with Gleevec.

C.

June 6, 2006

> >Is this the same ingredient in grapefruit juice that enhances the

effect

> >of Gleevec? Good news for grapefruit juice lovers.

>

> Interesting new finding Zavie.

> Some people on Gleevec who were not getting a good response and did not

> have bad side effects were purposely drinking grapefruit juice to

boost the

> Gleevec. Dr. Druker used to just warn that you would not want to drink

> grapefruit juice if you were already having bad side effects with

Gleevec.

>

> C.

>

For a period of time in the past I would purposely drink grapefruit

juice with my Gleevec. I had no side effects from Gleevec, so the

side effects didn't accelerate. I haven't done so for quite a long

time now, but never thought grapefruit juice was a problem for me.

Margot

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