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Side Effects
Along with its needed effects, a medicine may cause some unwanted effects. Although not all of these side effects may occur, if they do occur they may need medical attention.
Check with your doctor or nurse immediately if any of the following side effects occur:
Incidence not known- Abdominal or stomach pain
- Anxiety
- Black, tarry stools
- Bleeding, blistering, burning, coldness, discoloration of skin, feeling of pressure, hives, infection, inflammation, itching, lumps, numbness, pain, rash, redness, scarring, soreness, stinging, swelling, tenderness, tingling, or warmth at injection site
- Blurred vision
- Chest pain
- Chills
- Clay-colored stools
- Cold sweats
- Coma
- Confusion
- Continuing nausea or vomiting
- Convulsions
- Cool, pale skin
- Cough or hoarseness
- Dark urine
- Decrease in frequency of urination
- Decrease in urine volume
- Decreased urine output
- Depression
- Difficulty in passing urine (dribbling)
- Difficulty with breathing
- Difficulty with speaking
- Dizziness
- Dizziness, faintness, or lightheadedness when getting up from a lying or sitting position suddenly
- Drooling
- Dry mouth
- Eye pain
- Fainting
- False or unusual sense of well-being
- Fast, pounding, or irregular heartbeat or pulse
- Fever
- Fever with or without chills
- Flushed, dry skin
- Fruit-like breath odor
- General feeling of illness
- General feeling of tiredness or weakness
- Headache
- High fever
- High or low blood pressure
- Hot, dry skin
- Hyperventilation
- Inability to move the eyes
- Inability to sit still
- Increase in the frequency of seizures
- Increased blinking or spasms of the eyelid
- Increased hunger
- Increased sweating
- Increased thirst
- Increased urination
- Irregular heartbeat recurrent
- Irritability
- Itching
- Lack of sweating
- Lip smacking or puckering
- Loss of appetite
- Loss of bladder control
- Loss of consciousness
- Lower back or side pain
- Muscle weakness
- Muscle pain or cramps
- Muscle trembling, jerking, or stiffness
- Nausea or vomiting
- Need to keep moving
- Nervousness
- Nightmares
- Noisy breathing
- Painful or difficult urination
- Pale skin
- Pounding in the ears
- Puffing of the cheeks
- Rapid or worm-like movements of the tongue
- Rash
- Restlessness
- Seizures
- Severe muscle stiffness
- Shakiness
- Shaking
- Shortness of breath
- Shuffling walk
- Slurred speech
- Sore throat
- Sores, ulcers, or white spots on the lips or in the mouth
- Sticking out of the tongue
- Stiffness of the limbs
- Sweating
- Swelling of the face, ankles, or hands
- Swollen glands
- Tightness in the chest
- Tiredness and weakness
- Total body jerking
- Trouble with breathing, speaking, or swallowing
- Trouble with sleeping
- Troubled breathing with exertion
- Twisting movements of the body
- Uncontrolled chewing movements
- Uncontrolled twisting movements of the face, neck, trunk, arms, or legs
- Unexplained weight loss
- Unpleasant breath odor
- Unusual bleeding or bruising
- Unusual drowsiness, dullness, tiredness, weakness, or feeling of sluggishness
- Unusual facial expressions
- Unusual tiredness or weakness
- Unusually pale skin
- Vomiting
- Vomiting of blood
- Weakness of the arms and legs
- Wheezing
- Yellow eyes or skin
Some side effects may occur that usually do not need medical attention. These side effects may go away during treatment as your body adjusts to the medicine. Also, your health care professional may be able to tell you about ways to prevent or reduce some of these side effects. Check with your health care professional if any of the following side effects continue or are bothersome or if you have any questions about them:
Incidence not known- Acid or sour stomach
- Acne or pimples
- Belching
- Blindness
- Blurred vision or any other change in vision
- Decreased interest in sexual intercourse
- Decreased vision
- Difficulty having a bowel movement (stool)
- Disturbed color perception
- Double vision
- Drowsiness
- Feeling of constant movement of self or surroundings
- Fullness or swelling of the breasts
- Halos around lights
- Heartburn
- Inability to have or keep an erection
- Increased in sexual ability, desire, drive, or performance
- Increased interest in sexual intercourse
- Increased sensitivity of the skin to sunlight
- Increased watering of the mouth
- Indigestion
- Loss in sexual ability, desire, drive, or performance
- Loss of hair
- Menstrual changes
- Night blindness
- Overbright appearance of lights
- Pain or tenderness of the breasts
- Painful or prolonged erection of the penis
- Redness or other discoloration of the skin
- Sensation of spinning
- Severe sunburn
- Sleeplessness
- Stomach discomfort, upset, or pain
- Swelling of the breasts or breast soreness in both females and males
- Tunnel vision
- Unable to sleep
- Unusual secretion of milk
- Weight loss
Other side effects not listed may also occur in some patients. If you notice any other effects, check with your healthcare professional.
Call your doctor for medical advice about side effects. You may report side effects to the FDA at 1-800-FDA-1088.
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