The First FDA-approved Branded Prescription Medicine for Lowering Uric Acid Levels in Adults With Gout in More Than 40 years!
If you're hoping to manage your gout, we have some interesting news for you. Lowering your uric acid level and keeping it low may help you do just that. Keeping your uric acid level low (less than 6 mg/dL) is the goal for long-term management of gout.
If you have a new ULORIC prescription in hand or even if you've already started taking ULORIC, we have some guidance to help you stay on track.
If you have gout, high uric acid can lead to more attacks. ULORIC can help lower uric acid to a healthy level (less than 6 mg/dL).
ULORIC is a prescription medicine used to lower blood uric acid levels in adults with gout. ULORIC is not for the treatment of high uric acid without a history of gout.
Individual results may vary.
Do not take ULORIC if you are taking Azathioprine, Mercaptopurine, or Theophylline.
For some people, gout may flare up when starting certain gout medicines, including ULORIC. If you have a flare while taking ULORIC, do not stop taking your medicine. Your healthcare provider may give you other medicines to help prevent your gout flares.
A small number of heart attacks, strokes, and heart-related deaths were seen in clinical studies. It is not certain that ULORIC caused these events.
Your healthcare professional may do blood tests to check your liver function while you are taking ULORIC.
Tell your healthcare professional about liver or kidney problems or a history of heart disease or stroke.
The most common side effects of ULORIC are liver problems, nausea, gout flares, joint pain, and rash.
Please see the complete Prescribing Information and talk to your healthcare professional.
You are encouraged to report negative side effects of prescription drugs to the FDA. Visit www.fda.gov/medwatch, or call
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