PRAZOSIN

(PRA zoe sin) Brand: Minipress

What is the most significant information I must know about prazosin?

• You must not use this medicine if you are allergic to prazosin or similar medicines such as alfuzosin (Uroxatral), doxazosin (Cardura), silodosin (Rapaflo), tamsulosin (Flomax), or terazosin (Hytrin).

• Prazosin may reason dizziness or fainting, especially when you first start taking it or whenever your doze is changed. Be careful if you drive or do anything that requires you to be alert. Avoid standing for long periods of time or becoming overheated during exercice and in hot weather. Avoid getting up too quick from a sitting or lying position, or you may feel dizzy.

• Prazosin can affect your pupils during cataract surgery. Speak your eye surgeon onward of time that you are using this medicine. Do not stop using prazosin till surgery unless your surgeon tells you to.

• Speak your doctor about all another medications you use, especially another blood pressure medications including diuretics (water pills).

What is prazosin?

• Prazosin is in a group of drugs called alpha-adrenergic (AL-fa ad-ren-ER-jik) blockers. Prazosin relaxes your veins and arteries so that blood can more easily pass through them.

• Prazosin is used to treat hypertension (high blood pressure).

• Prazosin may also be used for another purposes not listed in this medicine guide.

What must I discuss with my healthcare provider till taking prazosin?

• FDA pregnancy category C. It is not known whether prazosin will harm an unborn child. Speak your doctor if you are pregnant or plan to become pregnant while using this medication.

• Prazosin can pass into breast milk and may harm a nursing child. Do not use this medicine without telling your doctor if you are breast-feeding a baby.

How must I take prazosin?

• Take exactly as predesigned by your doctor. Do not take in larger or less amounts or for longer than recommended. Follow the directions on your prescription label.

• Your doctor may occasionally change your doze to create certain you get the excellent results.

• Prazosin lowers blood pressure and may reason dizziness or fainting, especially when you first start taking it or whenever your doze is changed. Call your doctor if you have severe dizziness or feel like you might pass out.

• You may feel very dizzy when you first wake up. Be careful when standing or sitting up from a lying position.

• Your blood pressure will need to be checked often. Visit your doctor regularly.

• Hold using this medication as directed, even if you feel well. Tall blood pressure often has no symptoms. You may need to use blood pressure medicine for the rest of your life.

• Some things can reason your blood pressure to get too low. This includes vomiting, diarrhea, hard sweating, heart malady, dialysis, a low-salt diet, or taking diuretics (water pills). Speak your doctor if you have a prolonged diseases that causes diarrhea or vomiting.

• Store at room temperature away from moisture and heat.

What happens if I miss a dose?

• Take the missed doze as soon as you remember. Skip the missed doze if it is nearly time for your following scheduled doze. Do not take extra medication to create up the missed dose.

What happens if I overdose?

• Search abnormal medical attention or call the Poison Help line at 1-800-222-1222.

• Overdose symptoms may include extreme drowsiness or fainting.

What must I avoid while taking prazosin?

• Prazosin may impair your thinking or reactions. Be careful if you drive or do anything that requires you to be alert.

• To prevent dizziness, avoid standing for long periods of time or becoming overheated during exercice and in hot weather.

• Avoid getting up too quick from a sitting or lying position, or you may feel dizzy. Get up slowly and steady yourself to prevent a fall.

• Drinking alcohol can magnify determined side effects of prazosin.

What are the possible side effects of prazosin?

• Get abnormal medical help if you have any of these signs of an allergic reaction: hives; difficulty breathing; swelling of your person, lips, tongue, or throat.

• Call your doctor at once if you have a serious side effect such as:

· quick or pounding heartbeats or fluttering in your chest;

· feeling like you might pass out;

· trouble breathing;

· swelling in your hands, ankles, or foots; or

· penis erection that is painful or lasts 4 hours or longer.

• Smaller serious side effects may include:

· mild dizziness;

· weakness, weary feeling, drowsiness;

· headache; or

· nausea.

• This is not a complete list of side effects and others may occur. Call your doctor for medical advice about side effects. You may message side effects to FDA at 1-800-FDA-1088.

What another drugs will affect prazosin?

• Speak your doctor about all another medications you use, especially:

· propranolol (Inderal, Innopran); or

· another blood pressure medications, including diuretics (water pills).

• This list is not complete and another drugs may interact with prazosin. Speak your doctor about all medications you use. This includes prescription, over-the-counter, vitamin, and herbal commodity. Do not start a new medicine without telling your doctor.

Where can I get more information?

• Your pharmacist can provide more information about prazosin.

Remember, hold this and all another medicines out of the reach of children, never share your medicines with others, and use this medicine only for the indication prescribed.

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