lovastatin

There are many other drugs that can increase your risk of serious medical problems if you take them together with lovastatin.

You may need to take lovastatin on a long-term basis for the treatment of high cholesterol.

This list is not complete and other drugs may interact with lovastatin.

The first statin drug available to the general public was lovastatin.

Answer: Your father should not be taking lovastatin and pravastatin.

Use effective birth control to avoid pregnancy while you are taking lovastatin.

Studies have shown they contain up to 2.8% lovastatin on a dry weight basis.

Do not take lovastatin and niacin if you are pregnant.

Nonetheless, the drug agency did not give lovastatin a blanket approval.

Daily use of alcohol may increase your risk for liver problems, especially when combined with lovastatin.

If you take lovastatin several times daily, take it with meals.

Stop taking lovastatin and call your doctor at once if you have any of these serious side effects:

Do not take lovastatin and niacin on an empty stomach.

These products can react with lovastatin, preventing its full absorption.

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Your pharmacist can provide more information about lovastatin and niacin.

You may need to stop using lovastatin for a short time if you have surgery or a medical emergency.

Lovastatin belongs to a group of drugs known as "statins."

I had been taking 20mg/day of lovastatin, prescribed for a 200mg/dl cholesterol level.

If, in a few years, lovastatin does turn out to be safe, gemfibrozil may look less attractive, experts said.

The drug, lovastatin, blocks the activity of an enzyme involved in cholesterol synthesis.

But nearly 90 percent of patients, according to Kaiser's research, can reach their cholesterol-lowering goals with lovastatin.

Patients with liver disease should not take lovastatin.

The drug combinations included colestipol with either lovastatin or niacin.

His doctor at Kaiser finally said, "You've tried everything else, let's try lovastatin."