Colchicine for Gout - PART 3: 7 Ways to Try to Avoid Side Effects - Some Need-to-Know Info!

Описание: PHARMACIST Fi shares 7 Top Tips to help you try to avoid colchicine toxicity side effects (such as diarrhea, nausea, vomiting, stomach or intestine area pain, throat pain, etc.) - which are thankfully much less common now that a lot of doctors are prescribing
*modern, smaller dose schedules for acute gout flare treatment,
*lower colchicine dose schedules for people with kidney or liver problems, and
*managing serious interactions with certain types of other medicines - by either stopping colchicine or significantly reducing the colchicine dose schedule (depending on which medicine is interacting with colchicine).

Here is the link to PHARMACIST Fi's video about potential colchicine side effects and medicine interactions to avoid:    • Colchicine for Gout - Part 2: Side Effects...  

It is also important to remember to:
*avoid eating grapefruit and avoid drinking grapefruit juice while taking colchicine
*never take more colchicine than the doctor advises to take, and
*only take colchicine if it has been prescribed for you and don't give your colchicine to other people (because some people must not take colchicine due to some types of medical conditions, or potentially lethal medicine interactions with certain types of medicines).

If the doctor's instructions about how to take colchicine could be interpreted more than one way, or if you forget exactly how the doctor advised to take colchicine, as soon as possible, ask your doctor:
*how much colchicine to take per dose, and
*how much time to leave between colchicine doses, and
*whether or not there is a date that you need to stop taking colchicine (this will depend on whether the aim is to treat an acute gout flare, or to try to prevent future gout flares - because the colchicine dose schedules for these 2 different aims are likely to be quite different).

Here is the link to PHARMACIST Fi's video 'Ways to Avoid Accidentally Taking Too Much of a Medicine':    • Tips to Try to Avoid Accidentally Taking T...  
&
Here is the link to PHARMACIST Fi's video 'Ways to Avoid Forgetting to take Medicines':    • 2 Ways to Try to Avoid Forgetting Medicine...  

Here is the link to PHARMACIST Fi's 'Colchicine Part 1' video of important things to talk about with your doctor if you have been prescribed colchicine:    • Colchicine for Gout - Part 1: Things to Ta...  

Here is the link to PHARMACIST Fi's 'Gout and Medicines' playlist (including interesting new info about gout treatment in her '10 Things You May Not Know About Gout' series):    • Gout & Medicines  

Here is a link to the PHARMACIST Fi video about making a Medicines, Allergies & Contacts List, & what types of info about medicines to put on your Medicines, Allergies & Contacts List, so you can check it regularly before taking medicines, to try to take medicines the best way possible:    • #1: Make a 'Medicines, Allergies and Conta...  

Colchicine brand names in the USA include: Colcrys, Mitigare, Gloperba; colchicine brand names in Australia include: Colgout, Lengout, Colcine.

INFORMATION FOR DOCTORS:
Here is a link to an example of a modern colchicine dose schedule for treatment of acute gout flare, for people with good kidney and liver function, in the 'Treatment of Gout Flares' section at the base of page 3 of the Colcrys Prescribing Information (Revised May 2020) available on the FDA website August 2023: https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/drugsa...

Please also note that for people who do have kidney impairment or liver impairment, colchicine dose schedules for treatment of acute gout flare are in the 'Treatment of Gout Flares' sections on page 8 and 9, respectively, in the Colcrys Prescribing Information document above.

The Australian Medicines Handbook 2023 (https://shop.amh.net.au/products/digital) has further advice for prescribers about colchicine dose schedules and interaction management, although a subscription fee is required to access its information.

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