and your healthcare provider should decide if you will take AFINITOR or AFINITOR DISPERZ, or breastfeed. You should not do both.
Tell your healthcare provider about all of the medicines you take, including prescription and over-the-counter medicines, vitamins, and herbal supplements.
AFINITOR or AFINITOR DISPERZ may affect the way other medicines work, and other medicines can affect how AFINITOR or AFINITOR DISPERZ work. Taking AFINITOR or AFINITOR DISPERZ with other medicines can cause serious side effects.
Know the medicines you take. Keep a list of them and show it to your healthcare provider and pharmacist when you get a new medicine. Especially tell your healthcare provider if you take:
•St. John’s Wort (Hypericum perforatum)
•Medicine for:
◦Fungal infections
◦Bacterial infections
◦Tuberculosis
◦Seizures
◦HIV-AIDS
◦Heart conditions or high blood pressure
•Medicines that weaken your immune system (your body’s ability to fight infections and other problems)
Ask your healthcare provider or pharmacist if you are not sure if your medicine is one of those taken for the conditions listed above. If you are taking any medicines for the conditions listed above, your healthcare provider might need to prescribe a different medicine or your dose of AFINITOR or AFINITOR DISPERZ may need to be changed. You should also tell your healthcare provider before you start taking any new medicine.
How should I take AFINITOR or AFINITOR DISPERZ?
•Your healthcare provider will prescribe the dose of AFINITOR or AFINITOR DISPERZ that is right for you.
•Take AFINITOR or AFINITOR DISPERZ exactly as your healthcare provider tells you to.
•Your healthcare provider may change your dose of AFINITOR or AFINITOR DISPERZ or tell you to temporarily interrupt dosing, if needed.
•Take only AFINITOR or AFINITOR DISPERZ. Do not mix AFINITOR and AFINITOR DISPERZ together.
•Use scissors to open the blister pack.
AFINITOR:
•Swallow AFINITOR tablets whole with a glass of water. Do not take any tablet that is broken or crushed.
AFINITOR DISPERZ:
•If your healthcare provider prescribes AFINITOR DISPERZ for you, see the “Instructions for Use” that come with your medicine for instructions on how to prepare and take your dose.
•Each dose of AFINITOR DISPERZ must be prepared as a suspension before it is given.
•AFINITOR DISPERZ can cause harm to an unborn baby. When possible, the suspension should be prepared by an adult who is not pregnant or planning to become pregnant.
•Wear gloves to avoid possible contact with everolimus when preparing suspensions of AFINITOR DISPERZ for another person.
• Take AFINITOR or AFINITOR DISPERZ 1 time each day at about the same time.
• Take AFINITOR or AFINITOR DISPERZ the same way each time, either with food or without food.
• If you take too much AFINITOR or AFINITOR DISPERZ contact your healthcare provider or go to the nearest hospital emergency room right away. Take the pack of AFINITOR or AFINITOR DISPERZ with you.
• If you miss a dose of AFINITOR or AFINITOR DISPERZ, you may still take it up to 6 hours after the time you normally take it. If it is more than 6 hours after you normally take your AFINITOR or AFINITOR DISPERZ, skip the dose for that day. The next day, take AFINITOR or AFINITOR DISPERZ at your usual time. Do not take 2 doses to make up for a mis |
