Precautions
Drug information provided by: Merative, Micromedex®
It is very important that your doctor check your progress at regular visits. This will allow your doctor to see if the medicine is working properly and to decide if you should continue to take it. Blood tests will be needed to check for unwanted effects.
Your body's ability to fight infections may be reduced while you are using deucravacitinib. It is very important that you call your doctor at the first sign of an infection. Check with your doctor right away if you have a fever, chills, cough, flu-like symptoms, or unusual tiredness or weakness.
You will need to have a skin test for tuberculosis before you start using this medicine. Tell your doctor if you or anyone in your home has ever had a positive reaction to a tuberculosis skin test.
Check with your doctor right away if you have burning or stinging of the skin or painful cold sores or blisters on the lips, nose, eyes, or genitals. These may be symptoms of herpes simplex infection or shingles.
This medicine may cause serious allergic reaction, including angioedema, which can be life-threatening and requires immediate medical attention. Check with your doctor right away if you have large, hive-like swelling on the face, eyelids, lips, tongue, throat, hands, legs, feet, or sex organs.
This medicine may increase your risk of cancer, including lymphoma. Check with your doctor right away if you have black, tarry stools, general feeling of illness, swollen glands, weight loss, or yellow skin and eyes.
This medicine may cause rhabdomyolysis (severe muscle problem). Check with your doctor right away if you have dark-colored urine, fever, muscle cramps, spasms, pain, or stiffness, or unusual tiredness or weakness.
This medicine may increase your risk of developing blood clots (eg, deep vein thrombosis, pulmonary embolism), especially in patients with rheumatoid arthritis who are 50 years of age and older and with a heart or blood vessel disease. Check with your doctor right away if you have anxiety, chest pain, cough, dizziness, lightheadedness, or fainting, fast heartbeat, pain, redness, or swelling in the arm or leg, tenderness, pain, swelling, warmth, skin discoloration, and prominent superficial veins over the affected area, or trouble breathing.
Do not have any live vaccines (immunizations) while you are being treated with deucravacitinib. Check with your doctor before having any vaccines.
Portions of this document last updated: Feb. 01, 2024
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