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| Medicine | |
| Alchohol Interaction | Taking Dienogest with alcohol can cause minor side effects |
| Pregnancy Interaction | Visanne Tablet is highly unsafe to use during pregnancy.Human and animal studies have shown significant adverse effects on the foetus. Please consult your doctor. |
| Lactation Interaction | Visanne Tablet is probably unsafe to use during lactation. \nLimited human data suggest that the drug could represent a significant risk to the baby.Nonhormonal and progestin-only contraceptives are preferred in breastfeeding women, especially during the first 4 weeks postpartum |
| Expert Advice | • Inform your doctor if you or close relatives of yours have the propensity to form blood clots, e.g clots in blood vessels of leg, lungs, or have experienced heart attack, stroke, or suffer from compromised blood supply to any part of the body, especially hands and legs. • Tell your doctor if your close relative has or has had breast cancer. • Seek immediate medical attention if you notice possible signs of a blood clot such as a blood clot in the leg (pain, swelling, redness, discoloration of the leg), a blood clot in the lung (pulmonary embolism; breathlessness, wheezing, irregular heartbeats, cough, dizziness etc.), a heart attack or a stroke. •Tell your doctor if you have a disease that first appeared during pregnancy or earlier use of sex hormones, such as hearing loss, porphyria (a disease of the blood), gestational herpes (skin rash with blisters during pregnancy) or Sydenham’s chorea (a nerve disease causing sudden, uncontrolled movements of the body). • Seek immediate medical attention if you experience symptoms of angioedema/allergy such as swollen face, tongue and/or throat and/or difficulty swallowing or itchy rash, together with difficulty breathing. • Tell your doctor if you are pregnant or breastfeeding or if you have just given birth. • Patients allergic to dienogest or any of its ingredients should not be given dinigest. • Women with presence or risk of venous thromboembolism (blood clots in blood vessels of the leg or lungs) should avoid it. • Women undergone any major surgery with prolonged immobilization should avoid dienogest intake. • Women with presence or risk of arterial thromboembolism (blood clots in arteries, causing compromised blood supply to heart, brain, hands, and legs) should avoid it. |
| Common Side Effect | Edema (swelling), Abdominal bloating, Anxiety, Irritability, Depression, Muscle pain. |
| How to Use | Take this medicine in the dose and duration as advised by your doctor. Swallow it as a whole. Do not chew, crush or break it. Visanne Tablet may be taken with or without food, but it is better to take it at a fixed time. |
| Driving | Visanne Tablet does not usually affect your ability to drive. |
| Kidney | There is limited information available on the use of Visanne Tablet in patients with kidney disease. Please consult your doctor. |
| Liver | There is limited information available on the use of Visanne Tablet in patients with liver disease. Please consult your doctor. |
| Mechanism of action | Visanne Tablet is a progestin (female hormones). It works to prevent pregnancy by preventing the release of an egg from the ovary or preventing fertilization of the egg by sperm (male reproductive cells). It also may work by changing the lining of the uterus (womb) to prevent the development of a pregnancy. |
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