by if you take FYCOMPA. You and your healthcare provider should decide if you will take FYCOMPA or breastfeed. You should not do both.
Tell your healthcare provider about all the medicines you take, including prescription and over-the-counter medicines, vitamins, and herbal supplements.
Taking FYCOMPA with certain other medicines can cause side effects or reduce the benefit of either drug. Especially tell your healthcare provider if you take:
contraceptives. FYCOMPA may lower your contraceptive’s ability to prevent pregnancy if your contraceptive contains levonorgestrel. Use an additional non-hormonal form of contraception (like condoms or a diaphragm and spermicide) while using FYCOMPA and for 1 month after you have stopped taking FYCOMPA.
carbamazepine (CARBATROL®, TEGRETOL®, TEGRETOL-XR®, EQUETRO®, EPITOL®)
phenytoin (DILANTIN®, PHENYTEK®)
oxcarbazepine (TRILEPTAL®)
rifampin (RIFADIN®, RIMACTANE®)
St. John’s Wort
How should I take FYCOMPA?
See the complete Instructions for Use below for information on how to use the dosing syringes and measure your dose of FYCOMPA Oral Suspension.
Take FYCOMPA exactly as your healthcare provider tells you. Your healthcare provider will tell you how much FYCOMPA to take and when to take it. FYCOMPA is usually taken 1 time a day at bedtime.
Your healthcare provider may change your dose. Do not change your dose without talking to your healthcare provider.
If you take FYCOMPA Oral Suspension, shake the bottle well before you take each dose.
Measure your dose of FYCOMPA Oral Suspension using the bottle adapter and dosing syringes provided. Do not use a household teaspoon.
Talk to your healthcare provider about what to do if you miss 1 or more doses of FYCOMPA.
If you take too much FYCOMPA, call your local Poison Control Center or go to the nearest hospital emergency room right away.
What should I avoid while taking FYCOMPA?
Do not drive, operate heavy machinery, or do other dangerous activities until you know how FYCOMPA affects you. FYCOMPA may make you dizzy, sleepy, or tired.
Do not drink alcohol or take other medicines that make you sleepy or dizzy while taking FYCOMPA until you talk to your healthcare provider. FYCOMPA taken with alcohol or medicines that cause sleepiness or dizziness may make your sleepiness or dizziness worse. FYCOMPA when taken with alcohol may also make your mood worse, increase anger, confusion, and depression.
What are the possible side effects of FYCOMPA?
See “What is the most important information I should know about FYCOMPA?”
FYCOMPA may cause other serious side effects, including:
Dizziness, vertigo (sense of spinning), and problems walking normally. You may have problems walking normally if you are unsteady because you feel dizzy. These symptoms can increase when your dose of FYCOMPA is increased. Your risk of feeling dizzy and having problems walking normally may be higher if you are elderly.
Sleepiness and tiredness. See “What should I avoid while taking FYCOMPA?”
Increased risk of falls. Taking FYCOMPA can increase your chance of falling. These falls can cause serious injuries. Your risk of falling may be higher if you are elderly.
The most common side effects of FYCOMPA include:
dizziness
sleepiness
tiredness
irritability
falls
nausea and vomiting
weight gain
vertigo (sense of spinning)
problems walking normally
problems with muscle coordination
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