Pomalidomide STADA
Pomalidomide Stada is a medicine that helps your body fight multiple myeloma, a type of cancer.
Form
kapseli, kova
Strength
1 mg
Active Ingredient
Pomalidomide
Manufacturer
STADA Arzneimittel AG
How to Use
Dosage
The usual starting dose is one 4 mg capsule once a day. Your doctor may change your dose as needed.
Method
Swallow the capsules whole with water. Do not break, open, or chew them. Take the medicine at about the same time each day, with or without food.
Important
Do not take more than your doctor has prescribed. Your doctor will monitor you and adjust your dose as needed.
Possible Side Effects
COMMON
- •Shortness of breath.
- •Lung and airway infections (like pneumonia or bronchitis).
- •Infections of the nose, sinuses, and throat (bacterial or viral infections).
- •Flu-like symptoms (influenza).
- •Low red blood cell count (anemia), causing tiredness and weakness.
- •Low blood potassium, causing tiredness, muscle cramps, muscle pain, palpitations, tingling or numbness, shortness of breath, and mood changes.
- •High blood sugar.
- •Fast and irregular heartbeat (atrial fibrillation).
- •Loss of appetite.
- •Constipation, diarrhea, or nausea.
- •Vomiting.
- •Abdominal pain.
- •Tiredness or lack of energy.
- •Difficulty falling asleep or waking up.
- •Dizziness, tremor.
- •Muscle cramps, muscle weakness.
- •Bone or back pain.
- •Numbness, tingling, or burning sensation in the skin, pain in hands or feet (nerve damage).
- •Body swelling, including arms and legs.
- •Rash.
- •Urinary tract infection, causing burning during urination or frequent urination.
RARE
- •Falls.
- •Bleeding inside the head.
- •Impaired movement or sensation in hands, arms, and legs due to nerve damage.
- •Skin numbness, itching, and tingling.
- •Vertigo (a spinning sensation) that makes it hard to stand or move normally.
- •Fluid retention.
- •Hives (itchy red welts on the skin).
- •Itchy skin.
- •Shingles.
- •Heart attack (chest pain spreading to arms, neck, or jaw, with sweating and shortness of breath).
- •Chest pain (not a heart attack), lung or bronchial infection.
- •High blood pressure.
- •Low counts of red blood cells, white blood cells, and platelets at the same time (pancytopenia), making you more prone to bleeding, bruising, and infections.
- •Low count of lymphocytes (a type of white blood cell), often due to infection.
- •Low blood magnesium, causing tiredness, general weakness, muscle cramps, and irritability.
- •Low blood phosphate, causing muscle weakness or confusion.
- •High blood calcium, slowing reflexes and causing muscle weakness.
- •High blood potassium, which can cause abnormal heart rhythms.
- •Low blood sodium, causing tiredness, confusion, muscle twitching, seizures, or coma.
- •High blood uric acid, which can cause gout (a type of arthritis).
- •Low blood pressure, causing dizziness or fainting.
- •Mouth pain or dryness.
- •Taste changes.
- •Abdominal bloating.
- •Confusion.
- •Depression.
- •Loss of consciousness, fainting.
- •Blurred vision (cataract).
- •Kidney damage.
- •Inability to urinate.
- •Abnormal liver function tests.
- •Pelvic pain.
- •Weight loss.
- •Stroke.
- •Liver inflammation (hepatitis), causing itchy skin, yellow skin and whites of eyes, pale stools, dark urine, and abdominal pain.
- •Tumor lysis syndrome (breakdown of cancer cells releasing toxic substances into the blood), which can cause kidney problems.
- •Underactive thyroid gland, with symptoms like tiredness, lethargy, muscle weakness, slow heart rate, and weight gain.
Important Warnings
- Do not take this medicine if you are pregnant, could become pregnant, or plan to get pregnant. It can severely harm an unborn baby or cause fetal death. You and your partner must use reliable birth control during and after treatment.
- Do not use this medicine if you are allergic to pomalidomide or any other ingredient.
- Tell your doctor if you have had blood clots before. This medicine can increase your risk of getting them.
- Get immediate medical help if you develop severe skin reactions, such as a widespread rash, fever, or swelling.
- Contact your doctor right away if your vision changes, you have trouble speaking, weakness in your arms or legs, or memory problems. These can be signs of a serious brain disease (PML).
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- Talk to your doctor because this medicine may rarely increase the risk of developing other cancers.
- Tell your doctor if you have ever had hepatitis B infection, as the medicine can reactivate the virus.
- If you have many cancer cells, your doctor will monitor you for tumor lysis syndrome, which can affect your kidneys and heart rhythm.
- Tell your doctor if you have had a heart attack, heart failure, breathing problems, smoke, or have high blood pressure or cholesterol.
- Tell your doctor if you have or have had nerve damage that causes tingling or pain in your hands or feet.