Follitropin Beta (Systemic)

Brand Names : Follistim

Precautions While Using This Medicine

It is very important that your doctor check your progress often at regular visits, such as every other day , to make sure that the medicine is working properly and to check for unwanted effects. Your doctor will probably want to follow the developing eggs inside the ovaries by doing an ultrasound examination and measuring hormones in your blood stream. After you no longer receive follitropin beta, your progress still must be checked every other day for at least 2 weeks .

If your doctor has asked you to record your basal body temperature (BBT) daily, make sure that you do this every day. Using a BBT record or some other method, your doctor will help you decide when you are most fertile and when ovulation occurs. It is important that sexual intercourse take place around the time when you are most fertile to give you the best chance of becoming pregnant. Follow your doctor's directions carefully .

If abdominal pain occurs with use of follitropin beta, discontinue treatment and report the problem to your doctor immediately. Do not receive the injection of hCG and avoid sexual intercourse .

This medicine may cause some people to become dizzy. If this side effect occurs, do not drive, use machines, or do anything else that could be dangerous if you are not alert while you are using follitropin beta and for 24 hours after you stop using it.