MACUGEN (PEGAPTANIB)

Macugen Information

Macugen Indications

Macugen Warnings

You should not start using Macugen (Pegaptanib) if you are suffering from an eye infection. Before you start your treatment with this medicine, you should alert your personal physician if you are suffering from allergic reactions to this medicine, to any of its ingredients or to any other substances (such as dyes, foods, preservatives, etc).

Macugen is usually administered as a shot through a needle that is regularly placed directly into the patient’s eye. Your personal health care provider should give you this injection in a hospital or in another medical setting. This drug is usually used to treat one eye at a time. Such injections are usually administered every 6 weeks.

Before you receive a Macugen injection, you will probably be given a numbing drug in order to make you comfortable. You should also be treated with a powerful antibiotic in order to prevent the risk of developing an unwanted infection.

After you receive the injection, your personal physician should check your eyes at regular time intervals for the next half an hour. Other checks will probably be needed in the following days (regularly, in 2 and 7 days after the procedure).  While you are following a treatment with Macugen, you should protect your eyes (avoid exposing them to direct bright light).

Macugen is a category B FDA pregnancy drug. Therefore, a treatment with this medicine during pregnancy should not harmfully affect a growing fetus. However, you should ask for your physician’s opinion before you start a treatment with this medicine if you are currently breastfeeding an infant. It has not been clearly determined whether Pegaptanib’s main ingredients can pass into breast milk or not. It is not known if this medicine could affect a nursing infant. You should not start taking Macugen without your personal physician’s approval if you are currently breastfeeding a child.

Macugen Intake Guidelines

Macugen Dosage

Macugen Overdose

Macugen Missed Dose

Macugen Side Effects

• eye pain, irritation or redness;
• discharge or drainage from your eyes;
• vision problems or any other vision changes;
• feeling that your eyes have become more sensitive to direct light.

You may continue your treatment with this medicine (but you should inform your personal physician) if you experience any of these less severe, but more common side effects:

• cough;
• diarrhea, vomiting, nausea, upset stomach;
• dizziness, headache;
• joint pain;
• burning or painful burning urination.

Some other side effects that have not been listed (mentioned) here might also occur during a treatment with Macugen. Alert your physician immediately if you experience anything unusual or bothersome during your treatment with it.

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