DailyMed and FDA labels
Bethesda / Silver Spring - The current US prescribing information is read first. A dose that cannot be found there does not appear on these pages.
Drug reference · Stockholm
Ten labelled tablets, read from the current U.S. files
Ten medicine pages, one side-by-side of the PDE5 tablets, and twenty short articles. Each page is built from the current U.S. label and reviewed by Dr. Nora Lindqvist.
Educational reading. Use it to prepare questions for the next appointment.
Shorter reads
Twenty articles on the questions that come up next
How far one tadalafil 20 mg tablet reaches, why dinner delays sildenafil 50 mg, which ECG questions come before vardenafil 5 mg, and the five-week gap fluoxetine 20 mg still needs before an MAOI.
Postscript
How far one 20 mg tadalafil tablet is measured
PostscriptOnce-daily Cialis is 2.5 mg or 5 mg
PostscriptA high-fat meal delays the 50 mg sildenafil peak
PostscriptViagra tablets are 25 mg, 50 mg, and 100 mg
PostscriptQT work before a vardenafil 5 mg tablet
PostscriptLevitra is taken about 60 minutes before activity
PostscriptWeek-one jitter on a 20 mg fluoxetine capsule
PostscriptFive weeks after the last fluoxetine capsule before an MAOI
PostscriptShift-work modafinil is taken about one hour before the shift
PostscriptModafinil is Schedule IV
PostscriptYear-one sexual rates on the 1 mg finasteride tablet
PostscriptThree months of daily 1 mg before benefit is judged
PostscriptWhen a 20 mg prednisolone course needs a taper
PostscriptFever during a 20 mg prednisolone course
PostscriptCreatinine clearance writes the gabapentin ceiling
PostscriptOpioids plus gabapentin: respiratory depression is on the label
PostscriptQT limits and why milk supply stays off-label
PostscriptTen milligrams before meals, usually one week
PostscriptModalert 200 mg and Provigil name the same molecule
PostscriptRead the INN and the milligram on a Modalert pack
How a page is built
Label first, numbers checked, then reviewed
01
Open
Pull the live label, the named trial, and the registry record. The first draft is written for this desk, not lifted from another site.
02
Annotate
Every dose, half-life and contraindication is checked against the current FDA prescribing information. Where literature and label part, the letter says so.
03
Countersign
Dr. Nora Lindqvist reads the page the way a ward round would. Technically true but useless counselling is rewritten.
04
Seal
The letter goes live with a visible review date and a source trail. A label change sends it back to annotate.
Who reviews these pages
Dr. Nora Lindqvist, clinical pharmacology
Nitrates stay contraindicated with every PDE5 inhibitor on this site. Fluoxetine still needs five weeks before an MAOI. A steroid course needs a written end date.
Dr. Nora Lindqvist, MD
Clinical pharmacology · Karlavägen 58, Stockholm
She countersigns Cialis 20 mg, Viagra 50 mg, Levitra 5 mg and the seven other letters on this desk.
All ten
Medicines covered on this site
The 20 mg Cialis tablet is taken as needed
Most patients start as-needed Cialis at 10 mg. The 20 mg tablet is the labelled higher step. Frequency in most patients is once per day. Ere…
Fifty milligrams about an hour before activity
Most men start Viagra at 50 mg, about one hour before activity. The same paragraph allows the tablet anywhere from 30 minutes to 4 hours bef…
Five milligrams on the Levitra label
Levitra tablets include a 5 mg strength; many adults begin at 10 mg, about 60 minutes before activity. Labelled film-coated tablets are 2.5 …
Prozac 20 mg capsules start most adult depression charts
Adult major depression on the Prozac capsule label opens at 20 mg by mouth each morning. That capsule is the labelled adult starting dose. N…
Neurontin 800 mg tablets follow creatinine clearance
Neurontin tablets are 600 mg and 800 mg. Capsules are 100, 300, and 400 mg. Day-one postherpetic neuralgia is a single 300 mg dose. When cre…
Provigil 100 mg is a labeled tablet, timed to the shift
Provigil tablets are 100 mg and 200 mg. The recommended dose for narcolepsy or obstructive sleep apnea is 200 mg once each morning. Shift-wo…
Modalert 200 mg is modafinil under another brand name
Modalert is a brand name for modafinil tablets. The molecule is modafinil. Two hundred milligrams is a usual labeled morning dose for narcol…
Propecia 1 mg is taken once daily for male pattern hair loss
Propecia for male pattern hair loss starts at 1 mg taken once a day. Benefit may take three months or more of daily use. Related articles: d…
Twenty milligrams of prednisolone is a counted short course
If after long-term therapy prednisolone is to be stopped, withdraw gradually. Corticosteroids may mask some signs of infection. New infectio…
Motilium 10 mg has no FDA-approved US tablet
Domperidone is excreted in human breast milk after oral Motilium 10 mg. Breast-fed infants receive less than 0.1% of the maternal weight-adj…
Side by side
Tadalafil, sildenafil and vardenafil compared
Cialis 20 mg as needed beside Viagra 50 mg and Levitra 5 mg
This sheet lines up tadalafil 20 mg as needed , sildenafil 50 mg , and vardenafil 5 mg from the current U.S. prescribing information. Each chapter below is one tablet. The opening table is the only place the three rows s…
Where the facts come from
Labels and registries cited here
EMA product information
Amsterdam - Because the editors work in Stockholm, European product information is read alongside the US label. Where the two differ, the page says so.
PubMed and ClinicalTrials.gov
Bethesda - Named trials and registry records support the numbers quoted here. A percentage without a citation gets cut.
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