Medication Question - medication and drinking

[purplestardust2]

Hey, I`m taking medication for depression and personality disorder including anti psychotics and sedatives and I just wondered if drinking with them would do any harm? at the moment I`m probably drinking half a litre of whisky a night, but everyone keeps telling me how much better I look so I wonder if it`s really not doing any damage at all. I`m sorry if this is the wrong section I just didn`t know where to put it.

[Zedebee]

I'm no expert but from my own personal experience mixing alcohol with medication isn't really a good thing. One for thing [I know this may sound cliche but...] alcohol is a major depressant and in itself it isn't really healthy to be drinking so much, especially with the medication...

[blondiebear]

Taking alcohol with the meds you are taking is bad news. Also the alcohol makes the meds much less effective. Are there warning labels about drinking alcohol on the med bottles or with the info about them. Otherwise you could call the pharmacy and find out about the drug interactions with alcohol too.

The doctor who prescribed the medicines, does he/she know that you drink and how much you drink? If he did know he would be better able to help you.