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Brand Name Relistor Options - Manufacturer: Pfizer

Relistor Description

Relistor treats constipation that is caused by medicines for moderate to severe pain called opioids (for example morphine, codeine). Opioids are prescribed by your doctor. Relistor is given on top of your usual laxatives.

Relistor Directions

Always use Relistor exactly as your doctor has told you. You should check with your doctor or pharmacist if you are not sure.
The usual dose is 8 mg methylnaltrexone bromide (0.4 ml Relistor) for patients weighing 38-61 kg or 12 mg (0.6 ml RELISTOR*) for patients weighing 62-114 kg. The dose is given every 48 hours (every two days) as an injection under the skin. Your doctor will determine your dose.
Relistor is given by an injection under the skin (by subcutaneous injection) in either (1) your upper legs (thighs), (2) your abdomen (stomach), and (3) your upper arm (if not self-injecting).
You may have a bowel movement within a few minutes to a few hours of the injection; therefore, it is recommended to have a toilet facility or bedpan near you.

Relistor Cautions

Do not use Relistor:
• If you are allergic (hypersensitive) to methylnaltrexone bromide or any of the other ingredients.
• If you or your doctor know that your bowels are obstructed or your bowels are in a state where there is an immediate need for surgical intervention (which has to be diagnosed by your doctor).
Take special care with Relistor
• If you have severe liver or kidney disease.
• If you develop severe or persistent diarrhoea (passing of frequent watery stools) discontinue therapy and contact your doctor immediately.
• It is important to be near a toilet with assistance available if necessary, since bowel movement may happen within 30 minutes after injection of the medicine.
• Please talk to your doctor if you experience persistent stomach pain, nausea, (feeling sick in the stomach) or vomiting that is new or worsened.
• Please also talk to your doctor if you have a colostomy, a peritoneal catheter, or already known disease called diverticular disease or faecal impaction.
• If you have suffered from constipation before you had to take opioids (for pain), please also talk to your doctor.
Using other medicines
Please tell your doctor or pharmacist if you are taking or have recently taken any other medicines, including medicines obtained without a prescription. Your doctor may allow you to take other medicines, including those used for constipation.

Using RELISTOR with food and drink
RELISTOR can be taken with or without food.

Pregnancy and breast-feeding
Ask your doctor or pharmacist for advice before taking any medicine.
The effects of methylnaltrexone bromide in pregnant women are not known, and so the use of RELISTOR during pregnancy is not recommended.
Women using RELISTOR should not breast-feed, since it is not known if methylnaltrexone bromide passes into human breast milk.

Driving and using machines
Relistormay cause dizziness, and this may have an effect on driving and use of machines.

Relistor Side Effects

Like all medicines, Relistor can cause side effects, although not everybody gets them.
The most common side effects likely to occur in more than 1 in 10 patients:
• Abdominal pain (belly ache)
• Nausea (feeling sick in the stomach)
• Flatulence (passing wind)
• Diarrhoea (passing of frequent watery stools)
Common side effects reported in more than one in 100 patients, but in less than one in ten patients receiving Relistor are:
• Dizziness (light-headed)
• Reaction at the site of injection (e.g., stinging, burning, pain redness, oedema)
If any of the side effects gets serious, or if you notice any side effects not listed in this leaflet, please tell your doctor or pharmacist.

Relistor Active Ingredients

Methylnaltrexone