Precautions
Drug information provided by: Merative, Micromedex®
It is very important that your doctor check the progress of you or your child at regular visits to make sure that this medicine is working properly. Blood tests may be needed to check for unwanted effects.
Do not use this medicine if you or your child are also using alfuzosin (Uroxatral®), amiodarone (Cordarone®, Pacenone®), bepridil (Vascor®), cisapride (Propulsid®), ergot medicines (eg, dihydroergotamine, ergonovine, ergotamine, methylergonovine, Cafergot®, Methergine®, Migranal®), flecainide (Tambocor®), lovastatin (Altocor®, Mevacor®), lurasidone (Latuda®), midazolam (Versed®) pimozide (Orap®), propafenone (Rythmol®), quinidine (Cardioquin®, Quinaglute Dura®), rifampin (Rifadin®, Rimactane®), sildenafil (Revatio®), simvastatin (Simcor®, Vytorin®, Zocor®), or triazolam (Halcion®). Do not use this medicine together with colchicine (Colcrys®) if you have kidney or liver disease.
This medicine may decrease the effects of some oral contraceptives (birth control pills). To keep from getting pregnant, use an additional form of birth control with your pills. Other forms include condoms, a diaphragm, or contraceptive foam or jelly.
This medicine may cause bleeding problems, including intracranial hemorrhage (bleeding in the brain). Check with your doctor right away if you have confusion, headache, sudden, severe, nausea and vomiting, and weakness.
Check with your doctor right away if you or your child have pain in the upper stomach, pale stools, dark urine, loss of appetite, nausea, unusual tiredness or weakness, or yellow eyes or skin. These could be symptoms of a serious liver problem.
Your immune system may get stronger when you start taking HIV medicines. Tell your doctor right away if you or your child notice any changes in health. Sometimes the immune system will start to fight infections that were hidden in your body, such as pneumonia, herpes, or tuberculosis. Autoimmune disorders (eg, Graves' disease, polymyositis, or Guillain-Barré syndrome) may also occur.
It is important to practice safe sex, even if your partner also has HIV. Use a latex condom or other barrier method.
Do not re-use or share needles with anyone. This can increase the risk of spreading HIV and other diseases (eg, hepatitis C).
Serious skin reactions can occur with this medicine. Check with your doctor right away if you or your child have blistering, peeling, or loosening of the skin, increased sensitivity of skin to sunlight, itching, redness or discoloration of the skin, rash with flat lesions or small raised lesions on the skin, severe sunburn, or skin rash.
This medicine may increase the risk of bleeding in patients with hemophilia (a bleeding disorder). Talk with your doctor about this risk.
This medicine may cause you to have excess body fat. Tell your doctor if you or your child notice changes in body shape, such as an increased amount of fat in the upper back and neck, or around the chest and stomach area, or a loss of fat from the legs, arms, and face.
Do not take other medicines unless they have been discussed with your doctor. This includes prescription and nonprescription (over-the-counter [OTC]) medicines, and herbal (eg, St. John's wort) or vitamin supplements.
Portions of this document last updated: June 01, 2024
Copyright: © Merative US L.P. 1973, 2024. All rights reserved. Information is for End User's use only and may not be sold, redistributed or otherwise used for commercial purposes.