How can this medicine affect other medicines?

There may be an increased risk of side effects on the muscles (myopathy) if this medicine is taken with any of the following: - fibrates for lowering cholesterol, eg bezafibrate, gemfibrozil - ciclosporin - nicotinic acid - erythromycin. Colestyramine decreases the absorption of fluvastatin from the gut. If both are required, the dose of fluvastatin should be taken at least four hours after the colestyramine to prevent this happening. Rifampicin decreases the blood levels of fluvastatin. Your doctor may need to increase your fluvastatin dose if you are also prescribed this antibiotic. The anti-blood-clotting effect of anticoagulants such as warfarin may be increased by fluvastatin. For this reason, if you are taking an anticoagulant your doctor may want to check your blood-clotting time (INR) when you start or stop treatment with fluvastatin.

Other medicines containing the same active ingredients

Lescol

Lescol XL

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