Rivastigmine
Active Ingredients
- Rivastigmine
Brands and Other Names
Manufacturers
- Alvogen Pine Brook Inc
- Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corp
This report is for all products sharing this active ingredient. For more details, please use our Workbench for research on individual brands like Exelon.
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.
Rivastigmine 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 Rivastigmine
Druginformer Identified Side Effects: None
Posted By Anonymous in askapatient.com on May 20, 2015 @ 12:00 am
“Side Effects: My 80 year old mother was taking Namenda which did nothing for her memory. New doctor took her off Namenda and put her on exelon patch. Within 14 days she declined to the point where s...”
Druginformer Identified Side Effects: Nightmare, Anxiety, Hallucination, Thought blocking, Decreased appetite
Posted By Anonymous in askapatient.com on May 14, 2015 @ 12:00 am
“Side Effects: After a 2-3 days my 93 lb mother quit sleeping almost entirely. She suffered a drastic decline in comprehension, became horribly anxious, suffered nightmares when she did sleep for 3-10...”
Druginformer Identified Side Effects: Lethargy, Disturbance in attention, Thought blocking
Posted By Anonymous in askapatient.com on February 28, 2015 @ 12:00 am
“Side Effects: Disoriented. Hard to focus. Lethargy. My husband has dementia and had been taking Aricept and doing pretty well on it. His neurologist recommended using the Exelon patch an...”
Druginformer Identified Side Effects: Hunger, Nightmare, Appetite disorder
Posted By Anonymous in askapatient.com on June 9, 2014 @ 12:00 am
“Side Effects: my Dad went from eating normal meals to eating like a bird,never being hungry. Now, one week after stopping the drug due to donut hole, his appetite is back, and his awful nightmares ha...”
Druginformer Identified Side Effects: Nightmare, Crying, Aggression, Gait disturbance, Psychotic disorder
Posted By Anonymous in askapatient.com on May 13, 2014 @ 12:00 am
“... was progressively Increased to the 13.3mg patch. She had a mental breakdown. She became aggressive, which had never happened before. She was throwing things. Having nightmares, crying spells, did not ...”
Druginformer Identified Side Effects: Erythema, Influenza
Posted By brb in fdb.rxlist.com on December 31, 2013 @ 12:00 am
“... She tried to use up my father's dosages 9.5 mg, but it made her hallucinate, flu symptoms, etc. Changed back to lower dosage and doing fine. Only side effect, is the redness and sometimes itchiness of...”
Druginformer Identified Side Effects: None
Posted By Anonymous in drugs.com on June 5, 2013 @ 12:00 am
“My father has been on the patch now about 2 1/2 months for Alzheimer's dementia. He stepped up to the 13.3 mg about 2 weeks ago and the patches don't want to stay on. Nurse asked if they could use ski...”
Druginformer Identified Side Effects: Investigation
Posted By alice in fdb.rxlist.com on January 7, 2013 @ 12:00 am
“i have never taken this drug but want to investigate if it is right for me.”
Druginformer Identified Side Effects: None
Posted By len berg in fdb.rxlist.com on July 8, 2012 @ 12:00 am
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Druginformer Identified Side Effects: Confusional state, Listless
Posted By Anonymous in drugs.com on April 17, 2012 @ 12:00 am
“... heavy blood pressure medicines and so still did not have the ability to do all I wanted. After 10 days I stopped the patches and quickly went back to my somewhat confused and listless situation. Thr...”
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 Rivastigmine
Nightmare
“Side Effects: After a 2-3 days my 93 lb mother quit sleeping almost entirely. She suffered a drastic decline in comprehension, became horribly anxious, suffered nightmares when she did sleep for 3-10...”
Source: EXELON: Side effects, ratings, and pat...
View full report on Rivastigmine related nightmare
Did the author experience nightmare while taking exelon?
What is this?Hallucination
“... decline in comprehension, became horribly anxious, suffered nightmares when she did sleep for 3-10 minutes, became nearly catatonic and began having occasional hallucinations . Before starting, she sle...”
Source: EXELON: Side effects, ratings, and pat...
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Did the author experience hallucination while taking exelon?
What is this?Anxiety
“Side Effects: After a 2-3 days my 93 lb mother quit sleeping almost entirely. She suffered a drastic decline in comprehension, became horribly anxious , suffered nightmares when she did sleep for 3-10...”
Source: EXELON: Side effects, ratings, and pat...
View full report on Rivastigmine related anxiety
Did the author experience anxiety while taking exelon?
What is this?