DESOXYN- methamphetamine hydrochloride tablet
Lundbeck LLC
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Read the Medication Guide that comes with DESOXYN® before you or your child starts taking it and each time you get a refill.
There may be new information. This Medication Guide does not take the place of talking to your or your child's doctor about your or your child's treatment with DESOXYN.
What is the most important information I should know about DESOXYN?
The following have been reported with use of methamphetamine
hydrochloride and other stimulant medicines.
1. Heart-related problems:
Tell your or your child's doctor if you or your child have any heart problems, heart defects, high blood pressure, or a family history of these problems.
Your or your child's doctor should check you or your child carefully for heart problems before starting DESOXYN.
Your or your child's doctor should check you or your child's blood pressure and heart rate regularly during treatment with DESOXYN.
Call your or your child's doctor right away if you or your child has any signs of heart problems such as chest pain, shortness of breath, or fainting while taking DESOXYN.
2. Mental (Psychiatric) problems:
All Patients
Children and Teenagers
Tell your or your child's doctor about any mental problems you or your child have, or about a family history of suicide, bipolar illness, or depression.
Call your or your child's doctor right away if you or your child have any new or worsening mental symptoms or problems while taking DESOXYN, especially seeing or hearing things that are not real, believing things that are not real, or are suspicious.
What is DESOXYN?
DESOXYN is a central nervous system stimulant prescription medicine. It is used for the treatment of Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder; (ADHD).
DESOXYN may help increase attention and decrease impulsiveness and hyperactivity in patients with ADHD.
DESOXYN should be used as a part of a total treatment program for ADHD that may include counseling or other therapies.
DESOXYN is also used short-term, along with a low calorie diet, for weight loss in obese patients who have not been able to lose weight on other therapies.
DESOXYN is a federally controlled substance (CII) because it can be abused or lead to dependence. Keep DESOXYN in a safe place to prevent misuse and abuse. Selling or giving away DESOXYN may harm others, and is against the law.
Tell your or your child's doctor if you or your child have (or have a family history of) ever abused or been dependent on alcohol, prescription medicines or street drugs.
Who should not take DESOXYN?
DESOXYN should not be taken if you or your child:
DESOXYN is not recommended for use in children less than 6 years old in the treatment of ADHD.
DESOXYN may not be right for you or your child. Before starting DESOXYN tell your or your child's doctor about all health conditions (or a family history of) including:
Tell your or your child's doctor if you or your child is pregnant, planning to become pregnant, or breastfeeding.
Can DESOXYN be taken with other medicines?
Tell your or your child's doctor about all of the medicines that you or your child take including prescription and nonprescription medicines, vitamins, and herbal supplements.
DESOXYN and some medicines may interact with each other and cause serious side effects. Sometimes the doses of other medicines will need to be adjusted while taking DESOXYN.
Your or your child's doctor will decide whether DESOXYN can be taken with other medicines.
Especially tell your or your child's doctor if you or your child takes:
Know the medicines that you or your child takes. Keep a list of your medicines with you to show your doctor and pharmacist.
Do not start any new medicine while taking DESOXYN without talking to your or your child's doctor first.
How should DESOXYN be taken?
What are possible side effects of DESOXYN?
See "What is the most important information I should know about DESOXYN?" for information on reported heart and mental problems.
Other serious side effects include:
Common side effects include:
• fast heart beat • decreased appetite
• tremors • headache
• trouble sleeping • dizziness
• stomach upset • weight loss
• dry mouth
DESOXYN may affect your or your child's ability to drive or do other dangerous activities.
Talk to your or your child's doctor if you or your child has side effects that are bothersome or do not go away.
This is not a complete list of possible side effects. Ask your or your child's doctor or pharmacist for more information.
Call your or your child's doctor for medical advice about side effects. You may report side effects to FDA at 1-800-FDA-1088.
How should I store DESOXYN?
General information about DESOXYN
Medicines are sometimes prescribed for purposes other than those listed in a Medication Guide. Do not use DESOXYN for a condition for which it was not prescribed. Do not give DESOXYN to other people, even if they have the same condition. It may harm them and it is against the law.
This Medication Guide summarizes the most important information about DESOXYN. If you would like more information, talk with your or your child's doctor. You can ask your or your child's doctor or pharmacist for information about DESOXYN that was written for healthcare professionals.
For more information about DESOXYN, contact Lundbeck Inc. at 1-800-455-1141 or visit www.Lundbeckinc.com.
What are the ingredients in DESOXYN?
Active Ingredient: methamphetamine hydrochloride
Inactive Ingredients: Corn starch, lactose, sodium paraminobenzoate, stearic acid and talc
This Medication Guide has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
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Revised: May 2009