Precautions
Drug information provided by: Merative, Micromedex®
It is important that your doctor check your progress at regular visits to make sure that this medicine is working properly. Blood tests and eye exams will be needed to check for unwanted effects.
Using high doses of this medicine may cause a condition called Ehler-Danlos-like syndrome. Check with your doctor right away if you have unusual changes on your skin and bones, including bone pain, tenderness, or aching, curved spine, loss of appetite, stretch marks, broken bones, joint problems, or unusual weight loss.
Serious skin reactions (eg, erythema multiforme bullosa, toxic epidermal necrolysis) can occur with this medicine. Check with your doctor right away if you have blistering, peeling, or loosening of the skin, chills, cough, diarrhea, itching, joint or muscle pain, red irritated eyes, red skin lesions, sore throat, sores, ulcers on the skin, or white spots in the mouth or on the lips, or unusual tiredness or weakness while you are using this medicine.
This medicine may cause stomach or bowel ulcers or bleeding. Check with your doctor right away if you have severe stomach pain, nausea, vomiting, loss of appetite, or if you are vomiting blood that looks like coffee grounds.
Check with your doctor right away if you have bloody or persistent diarrhea, loss of bowel control, stomach pain, or vomiting. These may be symptoms of fibrosing colonopathy.
This medicine may affect how your brain is working. Tell your doctor right away if you develop seizures, depression, or if you become very sleepy while taking this medicine.
Check with your doctor right away if you have bulging soft spot on the head of an infant, change in ability to see colors, especially blue or yellow, dizziness, headache, hearing loss, continued ringing in the ears, nausea, blurred or double vision, loss of vision, pain behind the eyes, or pain with eye movement. These may be symptoms of benign intracranial hypertension.
This medicine will lower the number of some types of blood cells in your body. Because of this, you may get infections more easily. To help with these problems, avoid being near people who are sick or have infections. Wash your hands often.
This medicine may cause some people to become dizzy or drowsy. Do not drive or do anything else that could be dangerous until you know how this medicine affects you.
Do not drink alcohol while you are using this medicine.
It is important to tell your doctor right away if you are pregnant or have become pregnant while using this medicine.
Portions of this document last updated: Feb. 01, 2024
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