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Can you drink alcohol with Levitra 2.5-20 mg?

Medically reviewed by Dr. Yuki Tanaka, MD - Clinical pharmacology, Toronto

Last reviewed · 3 min read · Updated

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A 20 mg tablet plus 0.5 g/kg alcohol (about 40 mL of absolute alcohol in a 70 kg person) did not potentiate hypotension during a 4-hour watch in healthy volunteers. Alcohol and vardenafil plasma levels were not altered when dosed together. That is the labelled sitting. A first 10 mg plus wine plus a hot room can still drop a standing man. This scan will not invent a millimetre-of-mercury from a cottage story. Nitrates remain a hard no on the nitrate scan.

What did the 20 mg plus 0.5 g/kg study show?

Vardenafil 20 mg did not potentiate the hypotensive effects of that alcohol dose over 4 hours in healthy volunteers.

Healthy volunteers are not a first-night 68-year-old on an alpha-blocker. Do not export 'no extra drop' to that room.

Wine is not a QT screen

A drink does not clear congenital long QT or sotalol. Rhythm avoids stay on the QT tag.

Do not treat 'I drank and felt fine' as an electrophysiology pass.

Did alcohol change vardenafil levels?

Alcohol and vardenafil plasma levels were not altered when dosed simultaneously in that study.

Wine is not a CYP3A4 inhibitor row. Keep ritonavir math on the CYP scan.

First-night 10 mg plus a hot room

A first labelled start plus heat plus wine is a faint pattern clinicians hear every summer. The alcohol study did not stage that room.

Keep the first swallow quiet and seated. Age 65 starts are a different scan.

Orthostasis is still a standing problem

The label still says vardenafil can potentiate the hypotensive effects of nitrates, alpha-blockers, and antihypertensives. Alcohol was a separate, quieter sitting.

Sit down if the room spins. Syncope is a stop, not a second glass.

Where to read nitrates instead

Chest pain and a nitrate spray are not an alcohol question. Open nitrates.

Poppers count as nitrates. A drink does not open them.

Sources

  1. DailyMed vardenafil hydrochloride tablets, setid d2dce236-257e-44b6-93a9-9f0280257c6a

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Board thread

Answers follow the U.S. Levitra label.

Malik Z., Rexdale I take amlodipine. Is wine the problem or the pair?

Board reply

Vardenafil can potentiate antihypertensives. The alcohol study is not that row. Ask the clinician who owns both the pressure tablet and the ED line before you stack a first 10 mg with drinks.

Vic D., Ossington Two glasses of wine with 10 mg. Allowed?

Board reply

The labelled sitting used 20 mg and 0.5 g/kg alcohol and did not show extra hypotension in healthy volunteers over 4 hours. Your room may still drop you when you stand. Sit if you feel it. Do not add a second tablet.

June O., Beach Hill Does beer delay Levitra the way a burger does?

Board reply

The food-effect range is high-fat meals cutting Cmax 18% to 50%. The alcohol sitting did not change vardenafil levels. Those are two rows. Do not mix them.