Common side effects associated with bromocriptine use include: nausea, dizziness, fatigue and diarrhea, abdominal cramps or discomfort, drop in blood pressure, dry mouth and fainting.
Bromocriptine dosage should be increased slowly to lessen the incidence of side-effects. Taking the drug with food may also help lessen abdominal discomfort.
• If you are 65 or older, use this medicine with caution. You could have more side effects.
• Check medicines with healthcare provider. This medicine may not mix well with other medicines.
• You may not be alert. Avoid driving, doing other tasks or activities until you see how this medicine affects you.
• Avoid alcohol (includes wine, beer, and liquor) or other medicines and natural products that slow your actions and reactions.
• Avoid grapefruit and grapefruit juice.
• Use birth control that you can trust to prevent pregnancy while taking this medicine.
• Feeling lightheaded, sleepy, having blurred vision, or a change in thinking clearly. Avoid driving, doing other tasks or activities that require you to be alert or have clear vision until you see how this medicine affects you.
• Feeling dizzy. Rise slowly over several minutes from sitting or lying position. Be careful climbing.
• Headache.
• Nausea or vomiting. Small frequent meals, frequent mouth care, sucking hard, sugar-free candy, or chewing sugar-free gum may help.
• Inability to sleep.
• If you suspect an overdose, call your local poison control center or emergency department immediately.
• Signs of a life-threatening reaction. These include wheezing; chest tightness; fever; itching; bad cough; blue skin color; fits; or swelling of face, lips, tongue, or throat.
• Severe dizziness.
• Significant change in balance.
• Significant change in thinking clearly and logically.
• Severe nausea or vomiting.
• Any rash.
• No improvement in condition or feeling worse.
Trade Name: Parlodel
Bromocriptine (Parlodel) is a fertility medication that belongs to a class of drugs called dopamine receptor agonists. It has some of the same effects as dopamine, a neurotransmitter which occurs naturally in your body. Bromocriptine works by suppressing the the production of prolactin, a hormone produced by your pituitary gland.
High levels of prolactin disrupts the production of follicle stimulating hormone (FSH) and luteinizing hormone (LH), the hormones that play an important part in ovulation.
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• This medicine does not mix well with many medicines. Serious reactions may occur. Check all medicines with healthcare provider.
• If you have an allergy to bromocriptine or any other part of this medicine.
• Tell healthcare provider if you are allergic to any medicine. Make sure to tell about the allergy and how it affected you. This includes telling about rash; hives; itching; shortness of breath; wheezing; cough; swelling of face, lips, tongue, or throat; or any other symptoms involved.
• If you have any of the following conditions: Heart disease, high blood pressure, or poor blood flow to the legs.
• If you are pregnant or may be pregnant.
• If you are breast-feeding.
• Bromocriptine improves the chemical balance in the brain.
• It prevents prolactin secretion.
• Take this medicine at least 4 hours before bedtime to decrease nausea.
• Take this medicine with or without food. Take with food if it causes an upset stomach.
• Take a missed dose as soon as possible.
• If it is almost time for the next dose, skip the missed dose and return to your regular schedule.
• Do not take a double dose or extra doses.
• Do not change dose or stop medicine. Talk with healthcare provider.
• Change in condition being treated. Is it better, worse, or about the same?
• Check blood pressure and heart rate regularly. Talk with healthcare provider.
• Follow up with healthcare provider.
• Store at room temperature.
• Protect from light.
• Protect from moisture. Do not store in a bathroom or kitchen.
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• If you have a life-threatening allergy, wear allergy identification at all times.
• Do not share your medicine with others and do not take anyone else's medicine.
• Keep all medicine out of the reach of children and pets.
• Most medicines can be thrown away in household trash after mixing with coffee grounds or kitty litter and sealing in a plastic bag.
• Keep a list of all your medicines (prescription, natural products, supplements, vitamins, over-the-counter) with you. Give this list to healthcare provider (doctor, nurse, nurse practitioner, pharmacist, physician assistant).
• Call your doctor for medical advice about side effects. You may report side effects to FDA at 1-800-FDA-1088 or in Canada to Health Canada's Canada Vigilance Program at 1-866-234-2345.
• Talk with healthcare provider before starting any new medicine, including over-the-counter, natural products, or vitamins.
• This medicine is used to treat acromegaly.
• This medicine is used to treat females who do not have a menstrual cycle.
• This medicine is used to treat females who have too much milk production.
• This medicine is used to treat Parkinson's disease.
• This medicine is used to treat some prolactin-secreting tumors.
