Ketipinor
Ketipinor is a medicine used to treat mental health conditions like depression, mania, and schizophrenia.
Form
depottabletti
Strength
150 mg
Active Ingredient
Quetiapine fumarate
Manufacturer
Orion Corporation
How to Use
Dosage
Your doctor will decide your dose; the daily dose usually ranges between 150 mg and 800 mg.
Method
Take tablets whole with water once a day, at least one hour before a meal or at bedtime; do not split, chew, or crush them.
Important
Your doctor will decide your maximum dose, which is usually no more than 800 mg per day.
Possible Side Effects
COMMON
- •Dizziness (can lead to falls), headache, dry mouth
- •Sleepiness (can lead to falls)
- •Withdrawal symptoms (such as trouble sleeping, nausea, headache, diarrhea, vomiting, dizziness, and irritability) if you stop the medicine suddenly.
- •Weight gain
- •Abnormal muscle movements, such as difficulty starting movements, shaking, restlessness, or muscle stiffness without pain.
- •Changes in blood fat levels (triglycerides and total cholesterol).
- •Fast heart rate
- •Feeling your heart pounding, racing, or skipping beats
- •Constipation, indigestion
- •Weakness
- •Swelling in hands or feet
- •Low blood pressure, especially when standing up, which can cause dizziness or fainting (can lead to falls).
- •High blood sugar
- •Blurred vision
- •Abnormal dreams and nightmares
- •Increased appetite
- •Irritability
- •Speech and language difficulties
- •Suicidal thoughts and worsening depression
- •Shortness of breath
- •Vomiting (especially in older people)
- •Fever
- •Changes in blood thyroid hormone levels
- •Decrease in certain types of white blood cells
- •Increase in liver enzymes measured in blood
- •Increased prolactin hormone (a hormone) in the blood, which can rarely cause breast swelling and unexpected milk production in men and women, or missed or irregular periods in women.
RARE
- •Seizures (epileptic fits)
- •Allergic reactions, such as hives and swelling around the skin and mouth
- •Restless legs syndrome (unpleasant sensations in the legs)
- •Difficulty swallowing
- •Uncontrolled movements, especially in the face or tongue
- •Sexual dysfunction
- •Diabetes
- •Changes in the heart's electrical activity (seen on an ECG)
- •Slower heart rate, which can be linked to low blood pressure and fainting
- •Difficulty urinating
- •Fainting (can lead to falls)
- •Stuffy nose
- •Decrease in red blood cells
- •Decrease in blood sodium levels
- •Worsening of diabetes
- •Confusion
- •High fever, sweating, muscle stiffness, severe drowsiness or weakness (a serious condition called neuroleptic malignant syndrome).
- •Yellowing of the skin and eyes (jaundice)
- •Liver inflammation (hepatitis)
- •Long-lasting and painful erection (priapism)
- •Breast swelling and unexpected milk production
- •Menstrual disorders
- •Blood clots, especially in leg veins (swelling, pain, and redness), which can travel to the lungs and cause chest pain and breathing difficulties.
- •Sleepwalking, sleep-talking, sleep-eating, or other activities during sleep.
- •Decrease in body temperature (hypothermia)
- •Pancreatitis (inflammation of the pancreas)
- •Metabolic syndrome: at least three symptoms, such as abdominal obesity, low 'good' cholesterol, high triglycerides, high blood pressure, and high blood sugar.
- •Fever, flu-like symptoms, sore throat, or other infection combined with a very low white blood cell count (agranulocytosis).
- •Bowel obstruction
- •Increased levels of creatine phosphokinase (a muscle enzyme) in the blood.
- •Severe rash, blisters, or red patches on the skin.
- •Severe allergic reaction (anaphylactic shock), which can cause breathing difficulties or shock.
- •Rapid swelling of the skin, usually around the eyes, lips, or throat (angioedema).
- •Severe blistering on the skin, in the mouth, eyes, or genital area (Stevens-Johnson syndrome).
- •Abnormal secretion of a hormone that regulates urine volume.
- •Muscle fiber damage and muscle pain (rhabdomyolysis).
- •Rash with irregular red patches (erythema multiforme).
- •Rapidly appearing red skin areas with small pus-filled blisters (acute generalized exanthematous pustulosis, AGEP).
- •Severe, sudden allergic reaction with fever, skin blistering and peeling (toxic epidermal necrolysis).
- •DRESS syndrome (flu-like symptoms, rash, fever, enlarged lymph nodes, and abnormal blood counts).
- •Heart muscle disease (cardiomyopathy).
- •Inflammation of the heart muscle (myocarditis).
- •Blood vessel inflammation (vasculitis), often with a red or purple spotted rash.
- •Withdrawal symptoms in newborns if the mother used Ketipinor during pregnancy.
- •Stroke.
Important Warnings
- Do not use this medicine if you are allergic to quetiapine or any other ingredients in the medicine.
- Avoid this medicine if you are taking HIV medications, antifungal medicines, certain antibiotics (erythromycin or clarithromycin), or an antidepressant called nefazodone.
- Be careful with alcohol, as it can make you more drowsy when taken with this medicine.
- Do not drink grapefruit juice while taking Ketipinor, as it can change how the medicine works.
- If you are pregnant, breastfeeding, or planning to become pregnant, talk to your doctor before using Ketipinor; do not use it during pregnancy or breastfeeding without your doctor's approval.
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- This medicine can make you feel sleepy, so do not drive or operate machinery until you know how it affects you.
- Do not stop taking your tablets suddenly, even if you feel better, unless your doctor tells you to.