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Uses:

• Take this medicine exactly as your doctor ordered.
• Take tacrine at least 1 hour before meals. If it upsets your stomach, you may take tacrine with food (although you may not absorb as much medicine if you have food in your stomach).

• Take the missed dose as soon as possible.
• Skip the missed dose if it is almost time for your next regular dose.
• You should not use two doses at the same time.

Storage:

• Store at room temperature, away from heat, light, and moisture.
• Keep all medicine out of the reach of children.

Special precautions:

• Make sure your doctor knows if you are taking any of these medicines: Bentyl®; Cystospaz®; Transderm Scop®; theophylline; Tagamet®; or Urecholine®.
• Taking tacrine with aspirin, ibuprofen (Advil®), and arthritis medicine (such as Naprosyn®, Indocin®, or Feldene®) can increase the risk of developing stomach ulcers.

Warnings:

• Check with your doctor before taking tacrine if you have an irregular heartbeat, stomach ulcers, liver disease, or asthma.
• If you are having any type of surgery, tell your doctor or dentist that you are taking tacrine.
• It is very important when you first start taking tacrine that you have regular blood tests to check your liver. Follow your doctor's instructions.
• Talk to your doctor before you stop taking tacrine or take less medicine than your doctor ordered. Suddenly decreasing the amount of medicine you take may make confusion or memory loss worse.

Side Effects:

• Yellowing of the skin or eyes
• Extreme weakness or unsteadiness
• Changes in the color of stools (black, dark-colored, or light-colored)
• Chills or fever
• Severe nausea and vomiting
• Trouble urinating, or painful urination
• Seizures
• Chest pain
• Fast or irregular heartbeat
• Headache
• Muscle pain
• Indigestion or gas
• Poor appetite
• Feeling drowsy or dizzy
• Mild tremors (shakiness) or anxiety