Your healthcare provider may do blood tests to check for diabetes while you take PROGRAF. Call your healthcare provider right away if you have any symptoms of high blood sugar, including:
Kidney problems are a serious and common side effect of PROGRAF. Your healthcare provider may do blood tests to check your kidney function while you take PROGRAF.
Nervous system problems are a serious and common side effect of PROGRAF. Call your healthcare provider right away if you get any of these symptoms while taking PROGRAF. These could be signs of a serious nervous system problem:
Your healthcare provider may do blood tests to check your potassium level while you take PROGRAF.
High blood pressure is a serious and common side effect of PROGRAF. Your healthcare provider will monitor your blood pressure while you take PROGRAF and may prescribe blood pressure medicine for you, if needed. Your healthcare provider may instruct you to check your blood pressure at home.
Tell your healthcare provider right away if you get any of these symptoms of heart problems while taking PROGRAF:
Tell your healthcare provider right away if you have fever and bruising under the skin that may appear as red dots, with or without unexplained tiredness, confusion, yellowing of the skin or eyes, decreased urination. When taken with sirolimus or everolimus, the risk of developing these symptoms may increase.
In people who have received a kidney, liver, heart, or lung transplant are:
Tell your healthcare provider if you have any side effect that bothers you or that does not go away.
These are not all the possible side effects of PROGRAF. For more information, ask your healthcare provider or pharmacist.
Call your doctor for medical advice about side effects.
You are encouraged to report negative side effects of prescription drugs to the FDA. Visit www.fda.gov/medwatch or call 1-800-FDA-1088.
PROGRAF capsules
PROGRAF Granules
Keep PROGRAF and all medicines out of reach of children.
General information about the safe
and effective use of PROGRAF
Active ingredient: tacrolimus
Inactive ingredients:
PROGRAF capsules: croscarmellose sodium, hypromellose, lactose monohydrate, and magnesium stearate. The 0.5 mg capsule shell contains ferric oxide, gelatin, and titanium dioxide. The 1 mg capsule shell contains gelatin and titanium dioxide. The 5 mg capsule shell contains ferric oxide, gelatin, and titanium dioxide.
PROGRAF Granules: croscarmellose sodium, hypromellose, and lactose monohydrate.
To help offset the cost of your PROGRAF prescription, ask your healthcare provider about the PROGRAF Copay Card. Enrollment is easy and eligible patients may pay as little as $0 copays and save up to $3000 per year.a
At Astellas Cares™, you'll find a list of lab tests your transplant team may want to perform after surgery and beyond. Before getting your blood drawn, be sure to ask your healthcare provider if there are any instructions you need to follow.
aEligible participants in the PROGRAF Copay Card Program ("Program") may receive annual savings up to $3000 for PROGRAF. Patients must have prescription drug coverage for PROGRAF. However, this Program offer is not valid for patients whose prescription claims are reimbursed, in whole or in part, by any federal or state-government funded prescription drug benefit program including but not limited to, Medicaid, Medicare, Medigap, Veterans Affairs (VA), Department of Defense (DoD), TRICARE, Puerto Rico Government Insurance, or any state patient or pharmaceutical assistance program. Patients who reside in the states of Massachusetts and California are not eligible to participate in the Program. Furthermore, this offer is not valid in the state of California. The PROGRAF Copay Card Program is valid for twelve (12) months from date of enrollment. Annual reenrollment in the Program is required and subject to eligibility. Restrictions may apply. This offer is void where prohibited by law. Astellas reserves the right to rescind, revoke, or amend this offer without notice. This Program is not insurance.
What is PROGRAF?
IMPORTANT SAFETY INFORMATION
What is the most important information I should know about PROGRAF?
PROGRAF can cause serious side effects, including:
Do not take PROGRAF if you are allergic to tacrolimus or any of the ingredients in PROGRAF.
What should I tell my healthcare provider before taking PROGRAF?
Before you take PROGRAF, tell your healthcare provider about all of your medical conditions, including if you:
Tell your healthcare provider about all the medicines you take, and when you start a new medicine or stop taking a medicine, including prescription and over-the-counter medicines, vitamins, natural, herbal, or nutritional supplements. Especially tell your healthcare provider if you take:
Ask your healthcare provider or pharmacist if you are not sure if you take any of the medicines listed above. PROGRAF may affect the way other medicines work, and other medicines may affect how PROGRAF works. Know the medicines you take. Keep a list of your medicines and show it to your healthcare provider and pharmacist when you get a new medicine.
How Should I Take PROGRAF?
PROGRAF capsules:
PROGRAF Granules:
What should I avoid while taking PROGRAF?
PROGRAF may cause serious side effects, including:
The most common side effects of PROGRAF in people who have received a kidney, liver, heart, or lung transplant are:
Tell your healthcare provider if you have any side effect that bothers you or that does not go away. These are not all the possible side effects of PROGRAF. For more information, ask your healthcare provider or pharmacist. Call your doctor for medical advice about side effects.
General information about the safe and effective use of PROGRAF.
You are encouraged to report negative side effects of prescription drugs to the FDA. Visit www.fda.gov/medwatch, or call 1-800-FDA-1088.
Please see the accompanying Patient Information and full Prescribing Information, including Boxed Warning.