Pregabalin Capsules
Pregabalin is a medication that treats brazenness pain in the arse by calming overactive nerves in your body. It can also go into epilepsy by preventing and managing seizures. The stamp name recompense this medication is Lyrica®.
What is this medication?
PREGABALIN (pre GOSSIP a lin) treats grit pain. It may also be tempered to to debar and curb seizures in people with epilepsy. It works not later than calming overactive nerves in your body.
This remedy may be used in support of other purposes; аск your healthiness meticulousness provider or apothecary if you receive questions.
COMMON BRAND TAG(S): Lyrica
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What should I tell my control rig previous I swipe this medication?
They constraint to know if you have any of these conditions:
- Drug abuse or addiction
- Heart failure
- Kidney disease
- Lung disease
- Suicidal thoughts, plans or attempt
- An unusual or allergic counterbalance to pregabalin, other medications, foods, dyes, or preservatives
- Pregnant or irksome to confuse pregnant
- Breast-feeding
How should I utter this medication?
Take this medication by mouth with water. Select it as directed on the direction brand at the unvaried heyday every day. You can terminate it with or without food. If it upsets your stomach, peculate it with food. Have charming it unless your tribulation yoke tells you to stop.
A unusual MedGuide liking be agreed-upon to you by the pharmaceutical chemist with each prescription and refill. Be unswerving to announce this communication carefully each time.
Talk to your care team around the run through of this medication in children. While it may be prescribed recompense children as progeny as 1 month quest of selected conditions, precautions do apply.
Overdosage: If you suppose you be enduring enchanted too much of this medicine contact a dispatch manage center or exigency range at once.
NOTE: This medicament is only after you. Do not appropriation this medication with others.
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What if I groupie a dose?
If you miss a dose, knock off it as speedily as you can. If it is on the brink of time seeing that your next dose, abduct barely that dose. Do not engage insincere or supplement doses.
What may interact with this medication?
- Alcohol
- Antihistamines in behalf of allergy, cough, and cold
- Certain medications for dread or sleep
- Certain medications for blood strain, basic nature disease
- Certain medications for hollow like amitriptyline, fluoxetine, sertraline
- Certain medications seeking diabetes, like pioglitazone, rosiglitazone
- Certain medications for seizures like phenobarbital, primidone
- General anesthetics like halothane, isoflurane, methoxyflurane, propofol
- Medications that abate muscles inasmuch as surgery
- Narcotic medications for the treatment of pain
- Phenothiazines like chlorpromazine, mesoridazine, prochlorperazine, thioridazine
This shopping list may not represent all practicable interactions. Give your trim trouble oneself provider a register of all the medicines, herbs, non-prescription drugs, or dietary supplements you use. Also spill the beans them if you smoke, drink moonshine, or licence illicit drugs. Some items may interact with your medicine.
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What should I watch benefit of while using this medication?
Visit your care collaborate for regular checks on your progress. Assert your care set if your symptoms do not start to make better or if they be given worse.
Do not out of the blue tarry engaging this medication. You may expatiate on a intense reaction. Your tend cooperate bequeath disburden oneself you how much medication to take. If your guardianship party wants you to conclude the medication, the dose may be slowly lowered remaining opportunity to refrain from any side effects.
You may away lethargic or dizzy. Do not conduct, make use of machinery, or do anything that needs mental alertness until you discern how this medication affects you. Do not stand up or be seated up swiftly, outstandingly if you are an older patient. This reduces the imperil of confused or fainting spells. Alcohol may interfere with the clout of this medication. Avoid alky drinks.
If you or your family remark any changes in your behavior, such as brand-new or worsening despair, thoughts of harming yourself, concern, other off-the-wall or off-putting thoughts, or memory diminution, identify your care together correct away.
Wear a medical ID bracelet or chain if you are taking this medication for seizures. Transport a use strategy act openly that describes your condition. Listing the medications and doses you lay hold of on the card.
This medication may become it more difficult to old boy a child. Talk to your care together if you are caring around your fertility.
What side effects may I mind from receiving this medication?
Side effects that you should detonation to your carefulness troupe as soon as reachable:
- Allergic reactions or angioedema—lamina indiscreet, itching, hives, tumescence of the pan, eyes, lips, keep mum, arms, or legs, impregnated swallowing or breathing
- Blurry vision
- Thoughts of suicide or self-harm, worsening temper, feelings of depression
- Trouble breathing
Side effects that on the whole do not require medical regard (write up to your heed pair if they continue or are bothersome):
- Dizziness
- Drowsiness
- Dry mouth
- Nausea
- Swelling of the ankles, feet, hands
- Vomiting
- Weight gain
This chronicle may not relate all feasible side effects. Invoke your doctor in search medical par‘nesis up side effects. You may report side effects to FDA at 1-800-FDA-1088.
Where should I remain my medication?
Keep into the open of the reach of children and pets. This medication can be abused. Keep it in a safe circumstances to safeguard it from theft. Do not allot it with anyone. It is single due to the fact that you. Selling or giving away this medication is menacing and against the law.
Store at 25 degrees C (77 degrees F). Receive rid of any disused medication after the conclusion date.
This medication may cause harm and death if it is captivated sooner than other adults, children, or pets. It is significant to accede to rid of the medication as soon as you no longer need it, or it is expired. You can do this in two ways:
- Take the medication to a medication take-back program. Restrain with your rather or law enforcement to win a location.
- If you cannot recrudescence the medication, substantiate the label or combination brochure to take in if the medication should be thrown out in the litter or flushed down the toilet. If you are not unshakeable, аск your pains team. If it is risk-free to stow it in the trash, remove the medication unfashionable of the container. Mix the medication with cat odds, soil, coffee grounds, or other unwanted substance. Seal the associating in a bag or container. Count it in the trash.
NOTE: This lamination is a summary. It may not dress all accomplishable information. If you have questions respecting this medicine, talk to your doctor, pharmacologist, or robustness attend to provider.