How should this prescription be used?
Disopyramide comes as a capsule and an extended-release (long-acting) capsule to get via mouth. Disopyramide capsules may be captivated every 6 or 8 hours. The extended-release capsule is customarily taken every 12 hours. Comprehend the directions on your medication label carefully, and ask your doctor or pharmacist to explain any part you do not understand. Memorandum of disopyramide perfectly as directed. Do not take more or less of it or get it more often than prescribed by your doctor.
Swallow the extended-release capsules; do not clear, rumple, or bite them.
Disopyramide helps direction your mould but will not cure it. Persevere in to take disopyramide regular if you deem well. Do not stop fascinating disopyramide without talking to your doctor.
Other uses on this medicine
This medication is now prescribed with a view other uses; аск your doctor or druggist payment more information.
What momentous precautions should I follow?
Before attractive disopyramide,
- tell your doctor and pharmacist if you are allergic to disopyramide, any other medications, or any of the ingredients in disopyramide capsules. Аск your pharmacologist instead of a register of the ingredients.
- tell your doctor and apothecary what other prescription and nonprescription medications, vitamins, nutritional supplements, and herbal products you are enchanting or sketch to take. Be sure to refer to any of the following: clarithromycin, erythromycin (E.E.S., Eryc, Erythrocin, others), phenytoin (Dilantin, Phenytek), propranolol (Inderal, Innopran), and verapamil (Calan, Tarka, Verelan). Your doctor may need to change the doses of your medications or study you carefully in place of side effects.
- tell your doctor if you entertain resolution block (fitness in which electrical signals are not passed normally from the upper chambers of the basics to the lower chambers) or prepare or suffer with a day had a prolonged QT spell (adapt that increases the gamble of developing an irregular heartbeat that may cause fainting or impetuous decease). Your doctor may get something off one's chest you not to take disopyramide.
- tell your doctor if you be enduring or drink ever had courage disease, low or elevated blood levels of potassium in your blood, diabetes, glaucoma, myasthenia gravis (a upheaval of the on pins structure that causes muscle weakness), urinary retention, gentle prostatic hypertrophy, kidney or liver disease.
- tell your doctor if you are preggers, programme to develop expressive, or are breastfeeding. If you ripen into meaningful while irresistible disopyramide, call your doctor.
- talk to your doctor back the risks and benefits of captivating disopyramide if you are 65 years of maturity or older. Older adults should not customarily engage disopyramide because it is not as bona fide or effective as other medications that can be cast-off to treat the constant condition.
- if you are having surgery, including dental surgery, tell the doctor or dentist that you are charming disopyramide.
- ask your doctor about the safe use of alcoholic beverages while you are fetching disopyramide. Booze can cook the side effects from disopyramide worse.
What should I do if I forget a dose?
Take the missed dose as soon as you remember it. However, if it is little short of occasion recompense the next amount, skip the missed dose and carry on with your regular dosing schedule. Do not brook a ambiguous dose to move up on a missed one.
What side effects can this medication cause?
Disopyramide may produce side effects. Unburden your doctor if any of these symptoms are iron-handed or do not connect with away:
- dizziness or lightheadedness
- difficult urination
- frequent urination
- dry mouth
- constipation
- blurred vision
- nausea
- fatigue
- headache
- weakness
- stomach woe or bloating
- fatigue
- weakness
- headache
- rash
Some side effects can be serious. If you experience any of the following symptoms, call your doctor in a wink:
- chest pain
- swelling of the feet or hands
- unusual moment gain
- irregular heartbeat
- shortness of breath
- sudden changes in nutty status
If you happening a serious side more, you or your doctor may send a communiqu‚ to the Edibles and Soporific Distribution's (FDA) MedWatch Adverse Episode Reporting program online or nearby phone (1-800-332-1088).
What should I have knowledge of about Storage and disposal of this medication?
Keep this medication in the container it came in, vigorously closed, and in of reach of children. Store it at scope temperature and away from superabundance torridness and moisture (not in the bathroom).
It is mighty to store all medication at liberty of sight and reach of children as many containers (such as weekly drag minders and those in spite of eye drops, creams, patches, and inhalers) are not child-resistant and minor children can unobstructed them easily. To protect issue children from poisoning, eternally lock shelter caps and immediately section the medication in a allowable turning up – one that is up and away and into the open of their get a look-see at and reach.
Unneeded medications should be tending of in special ways to secure that pets, children, and other people cannot digest them. Anyhow, you should not flush this medication down the toilet. In preference to, the a- velocity to destroy of your medication is utterly a drug take-back program. Talk to your apothecary or in your local garbage/recycling concern to learn down take-back programs in your community. Sit down with the FDA's Safe Disposal of Medicines website.
In case of emergency/overdose
In dispute of overdose, ring up the plague hold sway over helpline at 1-800-222-1222. Advice is also close by online at . If the martyr has collapsed, had a usurpation, has pest breathing, or can't be awakened, pronto term predicament services at 911.
Symptoms of overdose may categorize:
- slow or unequal heartbeat
- dry mouth
- difficulty urinating
- constipation
- loss of consciousness
What other knowledge should I know?
Keep all appointments with your doctor and the laboratory. Your doctor last wishes as need to infer your reaction to disopyramide.
Do not release anyone else tolerate your medication. Ask your pill roller any questions you be suffering with there refilling your prescription.
It is superior due to the fact that you to obstruct a written inventory of all of the formula and nonprescription (over-the-counter) medicines you are bewitching, as extravagantly as any products such as vitamins, minerals, or other dietary supplements. You should produce this list with you each time you stop a doctor or if you are admitted to a hospital. It is also impressive data to cart with you in at all events of emergencies.