Selected 5-HT1D Agonists/Rasagiline Interactions

This information is generalized and not intended as specific medical advice. Consult your healthcare professional before taking or discontinuing any drug or commencing any course of treatment.

Medical warning:

Moderate. These medicines may cause some risk when taken together. Contact your healthcare professional (e.g. doctor or pharmacist) for more information.

How the interaction occurs:

When these two medicines are taken together, your body may not process your migraine headache medicine properly.

What might happen:

The blood levels of your migraine headache medicine may increase and cause harmful effects.

What you should do about this interaction:

Contact your healthcare professionals (e.g. doctor or pharmacist) as soon as possible about taking these two medicines together. They may already be aware of this interaction and may be monitoring you for it. Do not start, stop, or change the dosage of any medicine before checking with them first.

  • 1.Azilect (rasagiline) US prescribing information. Teva Neurosciences Inc. June, 2020.
  • 2.Maxalt (rizatriptan) US prescribing information. Merck & Co., Inc. October, 2019.
  • 3.Imigran Tablets, Injection, and Nasal Spray (sumatriptan) Australian prescribing information. GlaxoSmithKline February 11, 2002.
  • 4.Imigran Radis (sumaptriptan) UK summary of product characteristics. GlaxoSmithKline UK June 8, 2004.
  • 5.Imitrex Tablets (sumatriptan) US prescribing information. GlaxoSmithKline December 14, 2017.
  • 6.Imigran Nasal Spray (sumatriptan) UK summary of product characteristics. GlaxoSmithKline UK July 8, 2004.
  • 7.Imitrex Nasal Spray (sumatriptan) US prescribing information. GlaxoSmithKline December 14, 2017.
  • 8.Imigran Injection (sumatriptan) UK summary of product characteristics. GlaxoSmithKline UK September 19, 2003.
  • 9.Imitrex Injection (sumatriptan) US prescribing information. GlaxoSmithKline December 14, 2017.
  • 10.Imitrex (sumatriptan) CA prescribing information. GlaxoSmithKline Inc. September 22, 2011.
  • 11.Zomig (zolmitriptan) US prescribing information. AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP September, 2012.
  • 12.Zomig (zolmitriptan) UK summary of product characteristics. Zeneca Limited March, 1997.
  • 13.Relpax (eletriptan hydrobromide) US prescribing information. Pfizer Inc. March, 2020.
  • 14.Frova (frovatriptan) US prescribing information. Endo Pharmaceuticals August, 2018.
  • 15.Eldepryl (selegiline) US prescribing information. Somerset Pharmaceuticals February, 1997.

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