Ezetimibe Side Effects

Serious Ezetimibe Side Effects:

Fever, headache, sore throat with a severe blistering, and red skin rash or pancreatitis (severe pain in your upper stomach that spreads to your back) and fast heart rate
Chest pain, unusual muscle weakness, tenderness or pain.
Nausea, stomach pain, low fever, dark urine, jaundice (yellowing of the skin or eyes), loss of appetite, or clay-colored stools.

Less Serious Ezetimibe Side Effects:

Headache, tired feeling and depressed mood.
Runny or stuffy nose (cold symptoms)
Numbness or tingly feeling and cough.
Mild stomach pain, diarrhea or joint pain, back pain.

Warnings & Recalls for Ezetimibe

Warnings

Be sure to tell your doctor if you have ever had unexplained muscle pain or weakness. Also if you have ever had any liver problems such as unexplained high liver enzymes or active liver disease then Ezetimibe is also not recommended.
Inform your healthcare provider if you drink alcohol frequently before starting this medication.

Drug interactions
Any of the following drugs are known to interact moderately with ezentime:

Advicor (lovastatin/niacin)
Altocor (lovastatin)
Altoprev (lovastatin)
amlodipine/atorvastatin
Antara (fenoribrate)
aspirin/pravastatin
atorvastatin
Atromid-S (clofibrate)
Baycol (cerivastatin)
Caduet (amlodipine/atorvastatin)
chenodeoxycholic acid
cholestyramine
Cholestyramine Light (cholestyramine)
clofibrate
colesevelam
Colestid (colestipol)
colestipol
Crestor (rosuvastatin)
cyclosporine
ezetimibe/simvastatin
fenofibrate
Fenoglide (fenofibrate)
fluvastatin
gemfibrozil
Gengraf (clyclosporine)
Juvisync (simvastatin/sitagliptin)
Lescol (fluvastatin)
Lescol XL (fluvastatin)
Lipidil EZ (fenofibrate)
Lipidil Micro (fenofibrate)
Lipitor (atorvastatin)
Lipofen (fenofibrate)
Livalo (pitavastatin)
Locholest (cholestyramine)
Locholest Light (cholestyramine)
Lofibra (fenofibrate)
Lopid (gemfibrozil)
lovastatin
lovastatin/niacin
Mevacor (lovastatin)
Neoral (cyclosporine)
niacin/simvastatin
pitavastatin
Pravachol (pravastatin)
pravastatin
Pravigard Pac (aspirin/pravastatin)
Prevalite (cholestyramine)
Questran (cholestyramine)
Questran Light (cholestyramine)
Rapamune (sirolimus)
red yeast rice
rosuvastatin
Sandimmune (cyclosporine)
Simcor (niacin/simvastatin)
simvastatin
simvastatin/sitagliptin
sirolimus
temsirolimus
Torisel (temsirolimus)
TriCor (fenofibrate)
Triglide (fenofibrate)
Vytorin (ezetimibe/simvastatin)
Welchol (colesvelam)
Zocor (simvastatin)

The following drugs are known to have minor drug interaction with ezetimibe.

anisindione
Coumadin (warfarin)
dicumarol
Jantoven (warfarin)
Miradon (anisindione)
warfarin

Family planning:
Be sure to immediately tell you health care provider if you become pregnant, are breastfeeding, or are considering becoming pregnant while on this drug as it may be harmful to the fetus.

The FDA has assigned Ezetimibe as pregnancy category C. So far there is no controlled data showing fetal harm in human pregnancies, therefore the drug is only prescribed during pregnancy when the benefits out-weight the risk.

Ezetimibe Treatment and Use

What is Ezetimibe?

Ezetimibe | Zetia reduces the amount of cholesterol that is absorbed by the body. It is used to treat those with high cholesterol and can be given with other cholesterol lowering medications.

How does Ezetimibe work?

Ezetimibe | Zetia works by blocking the absorption of cholesterol from the foods consumed daily.

Ezetimibe dosage

Ezetimibe recommended dosage for once a day is 10 mg with or without food to reduce cholesterol levels. It should be taken at the same time each day in order to keep an even level of medication in the body.

Other Names for Ezetimibe

Brand Name:

Zetia

Simvastatin