Paxlovid also interacts with various other medicines. “The list is longer than most, and I think possibly most concerningly…it interacts with some medications that are really critical for many diseases,” Roberts says. “A lot of these patients who are high-risk for COVID…are on medications that do need to be evaluated before administering this.”include medicines for heart arrhythmias, immunosuppressants for organ transplant recipients, and blood thinners, he says.
The drugs, or compounds, that makeup Paxlovid are nirmatrelvir and ritonavir. During treatment, patients take nirmatrelvir and ritonavir tablets twice daily for five days. While monoclonal antibody treatments for COVID-19 target the ever-changing spike protein on the novel coronavirus’s surface, Paxlovid prevents the virus from making copies of itself.
Some medications, such as the statins used to treat high cholesterol, can be stopped for a few days while the patient is taking Paxlovid, Roberts says. In other cases, the dosage can be adjusted. Paxlovid may affect how some birth control pills work, so people taking them should consider using aUnfortunately, some drugs cannot be safely discontinued while a person is on Paxlovid, including certain heart and anti-seizure medicines, Roberts says.
The government scared me for my wife and I because we both have breathing issues. After our Pfizer shots and booster we both lost are sense of taste and smell and it's been a year since our shots. So no thanks get back to me in 10 years.