Apixaban Stada
This medicine helps prevent blood clots by stopping a protein called Factor Xa, which is needed for blood to clot.
How to Use
Dosage
Your doctor will tell you your exact dose. Typically, it's one 5 mg tablet twice a day. For some people or treatments, it might be one 2.5 mg tablet twice a day, or two 5 mg tablets twice a day for the first 7 days of treating blood clots.
Method
Swallow the tablet whole with water. You can take it with or without food. Try to take your tablets at the same time each day. If you have trouble swallowing, you can crush the tablet and mix it with water, apple juice, or applesauce, and take it right away.
Do not take more than the dose your doctor prescribed. The highest usual dose is 20 mg per day (two 5 mg tablets twice daily) for the start of blood clot treatment.
Possible Side Effects
- •Bleeding (e.g., from eyes, stomach, intestines, rectum, urine, nose, or gums)
- •Bruising and swelling
- •Anemia (feeling tired or looking pale)
- •Low blood pressure (feeling weak or having a fast heartbeat)
- •Feeling sick (nausea)
- •High GGT levels in blood tests
- •Bleeding (e.g., in the brain or spine, from the mouth or coughing up blood, in the stomach area or vagina, in muscles, behind the abdomen, in the lungs or throat)
- •Bright red blood in your poop
- •Bleeding after surgery (including bruises, fluid leaking from a wound, or at the injection spot)
- •Bleeding from hemorrhoids
- •Blood in poop or pee found by tests
- •Low number of platelets (blood cells that help stop bleeding)
- •Abnormal liver tests, higher liver enzymes, or high bilirubin (which can make skin or eyes yellow) in blood tests
- •Skin rash
- •Itching
- •Hair loss
- •Allergic reactions (like swelling of face, lips, mouth, tongue, or throat, or trouble breathing). Get medical help right away if these happen.
Important Warnings
- Do not take this medicine if you are allergic to apixaban or any other ingredient.
- Do not take this medicine if you have severe bleeding.
- Do not take this medicine if you have a condition that makes you bleed easily, such as a recent stomach ulcer or bleeding in the brain.
- Do not take this medicine if you have a liver disease that increases your bleeding risk.
- Do not take this medicine if you are already taking other medicines to prevent blood clots, unless your doctor tells you to switch or use heparin for a catheter.
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- Do not take this medicine if you are pregnant. If you become pregnant while taking this medicine, contact your doctor right away.
- If you are breastfeeding, ask your doctor for advice. Your doctor might suggest you stop breastfeeding or stop this medicine.