The meds that cannot not be taken with Voltaren are other NSAIDS or nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory medications such as naproxen and ibuprofen as well as certain blood pressure medications and kidney medications like diuretics and ACE inhibitors and blood thinners like warfarin.
Combining these medications with Voltaren significantly raises your risk of severe stomach bleeding and kidney damage.
Taking ibuprofen, naproxen or aspirin with Voltaren greatly increases your risk of stomach ulcers and even dangerous bleeding.
You should also never combine topical Voltaren gel with oral diclofenac or other systemic NSAIDs without getting explicit medical advice to do so.
Also combining Voltaren with blood thinning medications like apixaban, heparin and warfarin, significantly increases your chance of a major bleeding event.
Combining diuretic (water pills), like furosemide or hydrochlorothiazide also increases your risk of kidney problems including possible kidney damage.
And when you combine ACE inhibitor and ARB drugs like lisinopril or losartan, they can lose their blood pressure lowering effectiveness and even strain your kidneys.
Also some specialized medications that should not be taken or combined with Voltaren include methotrexate, lithium and corticosteroids.
Corticosteroid drugs like prednisone when combined or taken with Voltaren also raise your risk of gastrointestinal ulcers.
Voltaren when combined with lithium can also decrease lithium clearance, which can lead to unsafe buildup of lithium in the body.
And Voltaren can also slow how your body clears out methotrexate, which raises toxic chemical levels in your blood, so methotrexate and lithium should also never be combined with Voltaren.