Reasons you might take these medications:
Reasons not to take these medications:
You want a once-a-day medication.
You want to take a pill instead of getting an infusion or injection.
You are willing to be monitored with blood tests for anemia and white blood cell count changes.
You have no chronic heart, blood, or eye conditions.
Your existing medications have not gotten you into remission.
You have heart disease, heart failure, or a heart rhythm disorder.
You have had a recent stroke.
You have a history of severe, untreated sleep apnea.
You have glaucoma or macular disease.
You have anemia.
You take a monoamine oxidase inhibitor.
You are pregnant or could become pregnant.
You have certain other chronic medical conditions. (Talk to your doctor.)
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