Rivaroxaban ADOH
This medicine helps prevent and treat blood clots by making your blood less likely to clot, especially after surgery or if you have existing clots.
How to Use
Dosage
For preventing blood clots after hip or knee surgery, the typical dose is one 10 mg tablet once daily. For treating existing blood clots in legs or lungs, and to prevent them from returning, your doctor will prescribe either one 10 mg tablet or one 20 mg tablet once daily, but for this 10 mg product, it is one 10 mg tablet once daily.
Method
Swallow the tablet whole with water. You can take it with or without food. Try to take it at the same time each day. If you have trouble swallowing, you can crush the tablet and mix it with water or apple sauce right before taking it. After hip or knee surgery, take your first tablet 6-10 hours after the operation. For hip surgery, you usually take it for 5 weeks, and for knee surgery, usually for 2 weeks.
Do not take more than your doctor has prescribed, typically one 10 mg tablet per day, as taking too much increases the risk of bleeding.
Possible Side Effects
- •Reduced red blood cells, which can make your skin pale, cause weakness, or shortness of breath.
- •Bleeding in the stomach or intestines, urinary tract, or genitals (including blood in urine or heavy periods), nosebleeds, or gum bleeding.
- •Bleeding in the eye (including the white part of the eye).
- •Bleeding into tissue or body cavities (like a bruise).
- •Coughing up blood.
- •Bleeding on or under the skin.
- •Bleeding after surgery or fluid leaking from a surgical wound.
- •Swelling or pain in your arms or legs.
- •Kidney problems (may be seen in blood tests).
- •Fever.
- •Stomach pain, indigestion, nausea, vomiting, constipation, or diarrhea.
- •Low blood pressure (making you feel dizzy or faint when standing up).
- •General weakness, tiredness, headache, or dizziness.
- •Rash or itchy skin.
- •Blood tests showing increased liver enzymes.
- •Bleeding in the brain or inside the head (can cause headache, weakness on one side, vomiting, seizures, decreased consciousness, stiff neck – seek immediate medical help).
- •Bleeding into a joint causing pain and swelling.
- •Low platelet count (cells that help blood clot).
- •Allergic reactions, including allergic skin reactions.
- •Liver problems (may be seen in blood tests).
- •Blood tests showing increased bilirubin, pancreatic or liver enzymes, or platelet count.
- •Fainting.
- •Feeling unwell.
- •Fast heart rate.
- •Dry mouth.
- •Hives (itchy rash).
- •Muscle bleeding.
- •Liver inflammation or damage (jaundice, yellowing of skin and eyes).
- •Localized swelling.
- •Blood clot in the groin after a heart procedure where a catheter was inserted in the leg artery (pseudoaneurysm).
Important Warnings
- Do not take this medicine if you are allergic to rivaroxaban or any other ingredients in the tablet.
- Do not take this medicine if you have active heavy bleeding or a disease/condition that greatly increases your risk of severe bleeding, such as a stomach ulcer, brain injury or bleeding, or recent brain or eye surgery.
- Do not take this medicine if you are pregnant or breastfeeding. Use reliable birth control while taking this medicine if you can become pregnant.
- Tell your doctor if you have kidney disease, high blood pressure that is not controlled, or a stomach or bowel disease that might cause bleeding.
- Be very careful if you are taking other medicines that thin your blood, such as warfarin or heparin, unless your doctor tells you to switch treatments or flush a catheter.
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- If you need surgery, it is very important to take Rivaroxaban ADOH exactly as your doctor tells you before and after the operation.
- If you experience numbness, weakness, or problems with your bladder or bowels in your legs after a spinal injection or catheter for surgery, tell your doctor immediately as you need urgent care.
- This medicine is not recommended for children and teenagers under 18 years old.
- Rivaroxaban ADOH can make you feel dizzy or faint. If this happens, do not drive, cycle, or use tools or machines.