Dragon Pharma Raloxifene 60 mg Hydrochloride Tablets, 100 ct

Raloxifene is a selective estrogen receptor modulator prescribed to prevent and treat osteoporosis in women who have been through menopause, and to lower the risk of invasive breast cancer in postmenopausal women who are at high risk or who have osteoporosis. It acts like estrogen on bone and blocks estrogen in breast tissue. It cannot treat invasive breast cancer that is already present, and it is not used in women who have not yet been through menopause.

The labelled dose is one 60 mg tablet once a day, with or without food, taken at about the same time each day. Treatment is continued even when the patient feels well, and it is not stopped without talking to the doctor. As with other medicines on a fixed daily schedule, a missed dose is taken when remembered, but a double dose is never used to catch up.

Common effects are hot flashes, which are more frequent in the first six months, leg cramps, swelling of the hands, feet, ankles or lower legs, a flu-like syndrome, joint pain, sweating and trouble falling or staying asleep. Serious effects are the ones named in the boxed warning about blood clots, so leg pain, warmth in the calf, sudden chest pain or shortness of breath needs emergency care rather than waiting.

Yes, and that is the main warning on the label. Raloxifene can raise the chance of a clot in the veins of the legs or in the lungs, and anyone who has had such a clot is usually told not to take it. It is stopped at least three days before a planned operation and is not taken during extended bed rest. On long trips, sitting still for hours is avoided. Call a doctor at once for calf pain, warmth, swelling, chest pain or breathlessness.

Cholestyramine is not recommended with raloxifene, because it reduces the absorption and the enterohepatic cycling of the drug. With warfarin, prothrombin time is monitored whenever raloxifene is started or stopped. Because raloxifene is more than 95 percent bound to plasma proteins, other highly protein-bound medicines such as diazepam, diazoxide and lidocaine are used with caution. Tell the prescriber about every medicine and supplement in use.

Yes. Raloxifene is listed here as 60 mg per tablet in packs of 100, and the page above shows the current price of 171.00 USD and the live availability. The U.S. domestic option is open on this listing and delivers in 2 to 5 days; the international button is currently disabled, so this product is a domestic order for now.