Fludrocortisone Acetate
Active Ingredients
- Fludrocortisone Acetate
Approved Uses *
- Addison's disease
- Adrenocortical insufficiency acute
- Adrenogenital syndrome
- Blood magnesium
- Secondary adrenocortical insufficiency
* Extracted from Drug Label
Brands and Other Names
Show more brandsManufacturers
- Citron Pharma Llc
- Impax Laboratories Inc
This report is for all products sharing this active ingredient. For more details, please use our Workbench for research on individual brands like Florinef.
Explanation
The quarterly trend chart illustrates changing levels of adverse events over time. Results from both the FDA Adverse Event Database (FAERS) and adverse events extracted from social media by Druginformer are plotted side-by-side for easy comparison.
The proportion of people completing user reviews who complained about a side effect.
The proportion of social media adverse event complaints for each adverse event type.
The proportion of FAERS (FDA) adverse event complaints for each adverse event type.
Fludrocortisone Acetate Side Effects
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* DrugInformer calculates alarm using a proprietary algorithm. Alarm should not be taken as an ofiicial signal from the FDA or other regulatory entity.
Tell us about your Experience with Fludrocortisone Acetate
Druginformer Identified Side Effects: None
Posted By Anonymous in askapatient.com on April 10, 2015 @ 12:00 am
“Side Effects: None with .05mg, multiple side effects after increasing dose to .1mg I took this for about one year with no problems. Dr. decided to up dosage & I experienced multiple severe ...”
Druginformer Identified Side Effects: Dizziness, Feeling jittery, Arthralgia, Chest pain, Headache, Thirst, Confusional state, Hypertension, Paraesthesia, Somnolence, Vision blurred, Decreased appetite
Posted By Anonymous in askapatient.com on April 4, 2015 @ 12:00 am
“Side Effects: joint pain , dizziness, blurred vision, jitters, confusion, tingling in hands and feet, tiredness, chest pain, high blood pressure, headaches, thirst, loss of appetite, ”
Druginformer Identified Side Effects: Nausea, Abdominal discomfort
Posted By Anonymous in askapatient.com on April 6, 2014 @ 12:00 am
“Side Effects: Makes me extremely sick to my stomach with all the other meds I am taking. Went off it and felt better. Went back on and immediately felt nauseous. ”
Druginformer Identified Side Effects: Headache, Fatigue, Disturbance in attention, Fluid retention, Migraine, Somnolence
Posted By Anonymous in askapatient.com on May 31, 2012 @ 12:00 am
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Druginformer Identified Side Effects: Presyncope, Oedema, Swelling
Posted By Anonymous in askapatient.com on December 27, 2011 @ 12:00 am
“Side Effects: Severe edema of feet/ankles. I'm not sure this medication helped my POTS much - I was still having some episodes of pre-syncope even after I'd been on this med a few weeks. A...”
Druginformer Identified Side Effects: Vaginal haemorrhage, Haemorrhage
Posted By Anonymous in askapatient.com on March 15, 2011 @ 12:00 am
“Side Effects: Feel somewhat better; however, my periods are nuts - average bleeding about half of any given month. It's ridiculous. (And I have been on the same birth control for 6+ years; no other m...”
Druginformer Identified Side Effects: Nausea, Pain, Eye pain, Lethargy, Migraine
Posted By Anonymous in fdb.rxlist.com on September 27, 2010 @ 12:00 am
“This drug gave me massive migraines and I only been taken it for 4 days,the migraines went away when I stopped taken them. These migraines felt really bad enough to make my eyes hurt and pressure to ...”
Druginformer Identified Side Effects: None
Posted By Anonymous in drugs.com on August 10, 2010 @ 12:00 am
“I have taken this medicine along with Toprol-XL for a few years and it has helped A LOT! I think this medicine paired with Toprol-XL is great!”
Druginformer Identified Side Effects: None
Posted By Anonymous in drugs.com on August 10, 2010 @ 12:00 am
“Florinef (fludrocortisone) for Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome: I have taken this medicine along with Toprol-XL for a few years and it has helped A LOT! I think this medicine paired with Top...”
Druginformer Identified Side Effects: Thirst, Tenderness, Weight increased
Posted By Anonymous in fdb.rxlist.com on March 19, 2010 @ 12:00 am
“I experienced the excessive thirst, muscle tenderness, and weight gain.”
Additional Drug Information
* Warning: The facts and figures contained in these reports are accurate to the best of our capability; however, our metrics are only meant to augment your medical knowledge, and should never be used as the sole basis for selecting a new medication. As with any medical decision, be sure to work with your doctor to ensure the best choices are made for your condition.
* About FAERS: The FDA Adverse Event Reporting System (FAERS) is used by FDA for activities such as looking for new safety concerns that might be related to a marketed product, evaluating a manufacturer's compliance to reporting regulations and responding to outside requests for information. Reporting of adverse events is a voluntary process, and not every report is sent to FDA and entered into FAERS. The FAERS database may contain duplicate reports, the report quality is variable, and many factors may influence reporting (e.g., media attention, length of time a drug is marketed, market share). For these reasons, FAERS case reports cannot be used to calculate incidence or estimates of risk for a particular product or compare risks between products.
User Voices
The following are comments from users that experienced side effects while taking Fludrocortisone Acetate
Headache
“been on it for 2 weeks and they had to up it blood pressure dropping even when I am laying down. Gives me a headache when I first wake up.”
Source: Florinef
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Did the author experience headache while taking florinef?
What is this?Drug Ineffective
“I am not sure if it works at all, it is suppose to raise blood pressure, but I don't think it works well.”
Source: Florinef
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Did the author experience drug ineffective while taking florinef?
What is this?Migraine
“Working, with the side effect of exacerbating migraines , for which I take Depakote.”
Source: Florinef
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Did the author experience migraine while taking florinef?
What is this?