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Lowers high cholesterol and prevents blood clots. Decreases risk of heart attack, stroke, heart disease, and death due to heart disease or stroke. Also helps prevent the need to have surgery for heart problems. This package contains an HMG-CoA reductase inhibitor, sometimes called a "statin."
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Buffered Aspirin/pravastatin
Uses
Lowers high cholesterol and prevents blood clots. Decreases risk of heart attack, stroke, heart disease, and death due to heart disease or stroke. Also helps prevent the need to have surgery for heart problems. This package contains an HMG-CoA reductase inhibitor, sometimes called a "statin."
Storage
- Store the medicine in a closed container at room temperature, away from heat, moisture, and direct light.
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Ask your pharmacist, doctor, or health caregiver about the best way to dispose of any leftover medicine after you have finished your treatment.
- You will also need to throw away old medicine after the expiration date has passed.
Keep all medicine away from children and never share your medicine with anyone.
How To Use
- APPEARANCE: Tablet, Tablet.
Your doctor will tell you how much of this medicine to use and how often.
- Your dose may need to be changed several times in order to find out what works best for you.
- Do not use more medicine or use it more often than your doctor tells you to.
You may take this medicine with or without food.
Carefully follow your doctor's instructions about any special diet.
- You might be told to follow a low-fat diet and to exercise more.
Drink a full glass of water (8 ounces) when you take the aspirin, unless your doctor tells you not to.
Side Effects
- Call your doctor right away if you notice any of these side effects:
Allergic reaction: Itching or hives, swelling in your face or hands, swelling or tingling in your mouth or throat, chest tightness, trouble breathing.
Blistering, peeling, red skin rash.
Bloody or black, tarry stools.
Bloody vomit or vomit that looks like coffee grounds.
Change in the way you are breathing.
Dark-colored urine or pale stools.
Fever.
Nausea, vomiting, loss of appetite, pain in your upper stomach.
Ringing in your ears.
Unusual bruising or bleeding.
Unusual or severe muscle pain, tenderness, or weakness.
Yellowing of your skin or the whites of your eyes.
Precautions
- You should not use this medicine if you have had an allergic reaction to pravastatin, aspirin, or any other nonsteroidal (NSAID) pain medicine (such as ibuprofen, naproxen, Advil®, Aleve®, Celebrex®, Motrin®).
- Do not use this medicine if you are pregnant or might become pregnant, and do not breastfeed if you are using this medicine.
- You should not use this medicine if you have active liver disease, or if you have nasal polyps (small bumps inside your nose and sinuses) with asthma and a stuffy nose.
- Never give aspirin to a person less than 18 years old.
Missed Dose
- If you miss a dose or forget to use your medicine, use it as soon as you can.
- If it is almost time for your next dose, wait until then to use the medicine and skip the missed dose.
- Do not use extra medicine to make up for a missed dose.
Drug Interactions
- Using this medicine while you are pregnant can harm your unborn baby.
- Use an effective form of birth control to keep from getting pregnant.
- If you think you have become pregnant while using the medicine, tell your doctor right away.
Make sure your doctor knows if you have liver disease, kidney disease, low blood pressure, epilepsy, stomach ulcer, or bleeding or blood-clotting problems.
Make sure any doctor or dentist who treats you knows that you are using this medicine.
Your doctor will need to check your blood at regular visits while you are using this medicine.
- Be sure to keep all appointments.
Aspirin may contain sodium (salt).
- Tell your doctor if you are on a low-salt diet, or if you have a health condition affected by salt, such as congestive heart failure.
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CONDITIONS OF USE: The information in this database is intended to supplement, not substitute for, the expertise and judgement of healthcare professionals. The information is not intended to cover all possible uses, directions, precautions, drug interactions or adverse effects, nor should it be construed to indicate that use of a particular drug is safe, appropriate or effective for you or anyone else. A healthcare professional should be consulted before taking any drug, changing any diet or commencing or discontinuing any course of treatment.
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