Subscribe Facebook Twitter Instagram
Submit an Article to Pharmacy HQ     
Please include the author's name, title, and citations.     

ADCIRCA- tadalafil tablet


  1. Never Take Adcirca With Any Nitrate Or Guanylate Cyclase Stimulator Medicines:
  2. Nitrates Include:
  3. Guanylate Cyclase Stimulators Include:
  4. What Is Adcirca?
  5. Who Should Not Take Adcirca?
  6. Before Taking Adcirca, Tell Your Healthcare Provider About All Of Your Medical Conditions, Including If You:
  7. What Should I Avoid While Taking Adcirca?
  8. The Following Side Effects Were Reported Rarely In Patients Taking Tadalafil:
  9. What Are The Ingredients In Adcirca?

Never Take Adcirca With Any Nitrate Or Guanylate Cyclase Stimulator Medicines: 

  • Your blood pressure could drop quickly to an unsafe level
  • You could get dizzy, faint and even have a heart attack or stroke.

Nitrates Include: 

  • Medicines that treat chest pain (angina)
  • Nitroglycerin in any form including tablets, patches, sprays, and ointments
  • Other nitrate medicines (isosorbide mononitrate or dinitrate)
  • Street drugs that are inhaled, called poppers (amyl nitrate, butyl nitrate or nitrite)

Guanylate Cyclase Stimulators Include: 

  • Riociguat (Adempas) a medicine that treats pulmonary arterial hypertension and chronic-thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension

Ask your healthcare provider or pharmacist if you are not sure if you take a nitrate or guanylate cyclase stimulator medicine.

What Is Adcirca? 

ADCIRCA is a prescription medicine used to treat pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH, high blood pressure in your lungs) to improve your ability to exercise.

It is not known if ADCIRCA is safe or effective in children.

Who Should Not Take Adcirca? 

Do not take ADCIRCA if you

  • take any medicines called nitrates.
  • use recreational drugs called poppers like amyl nitrate, butyl nitrate or nitrite.
  • take any medicines called guanylate cyclase stimulators
  • are allergic to tadalafil or any other ingredient in ADCIRCA.

Before Taking Adcirca, Tell Your Healthcare Provider About All Of Your Medical Conditions, Including If You: 

  • are allergic to ADCIRCA or Cialis or any of its ingredients.

    • Take ADCIRCA exactly as your healthcare provider tells you.
    • Take ADCIRCA tablets at the same time every day. You should take both tablets at the same time, one after the other, every day. Do not split your dose.
    • ADCIRCA can be taken with or without food.
    • Do not change your dose or stop taking ADCIRCA without speaking to your healthcare provider.
    • If you take too much ADCIRCA, call your healthcare provider or go to an emergency department right away.

What Should I Avoid While Taking Adcirca? 

Do not have more than 4 alcohol-containing drinks in a short period of time while you take ADCIRCA. Drinking too much alcohol can lower your blood pressure. You could get dizzy or faint.

The Following Side Effects Were Reported Rarely In Patients Taking Tadalafil: 

  • Decreased eyesight or loss of vision in one or both eyes (NAION). If you notice a sudden decrease or loss of vision in one or both eyes, contact a healthcare provider right away.
  • Sudden decrease or loss of hearing, sometimes with ringing in the ears and dizziness. If you notice a sudden decrease or loss of hearing, contact a healthcare provider right away.
  • In men, an erection that lasts more than 4 hours (with or without pain).Talk to your healthcare provider or go to the emergency department right away.An erection that lasts more than 4 hoursmust be treated as soon as possible or you can have lasting damage to your penis, including the inability to have erections.

Store ADCIRCA at room temperature between 59 and 86 F (15 and 30 C).

Keep ADCIRCA and all medicines out of the reach of children.

General Information about the safe and effective use of ADCIRCA

Medicines are sometimes prescribed for conditions that are not mentioned in patient information leaflets. Do not use ADCIRCA for a condition for which it was not prescribed. Do not give ADCIRCA to other people, even if they have the same symptoms you have. It may harm them.

This patient information leaflet summarizes the most important information about ADCIRCA. If you would like more information, talk with your healthcare provider. You can ask your healthcare provider or pharmacist for information about ADCIRCA that is written for healthcare professionals. For more information, go to www.ADCIRCA.com or call 1-800-LILLYRX (1-800-545-5979).

What Are The Ingredients In Adcirca? 

Active Ingredient: tadalafil

Inactive Ingredients: croscarmellose sodium, hydroxypropyl cellulose, hypromellose, iron oxide, lactose monohydrate, magnesium stearate, microcrystalline cellulose, sodium lauryl sulfate, talc, titanium dioxide, and triacetin.

Rx only

ADCIRCA(tadalafil) is a trademark of Eli Lilly and Company.

*The brands listed are trademarks of their respective owners and are not trademarks of Eli Lilly and Company. The makers of these brands are not affiliated with and do not endorse Eli Lilly and Company or its products.

Revised 08/2017

Manufactured by: Eli Lilly and Company, Indianapolis, IN 46285, USA

Marketed by: United Therapeutics Corporation

Copyright 2009, 2017, Eli Lilly and Company. All rights reserved.

ADC-0003-PPI-20170801



Your use of this website constitutes your agreement to the terms and conditions linked below:
Terms and Conditions | Resources |
2017 © Copyright PharmacyHQ.com. Questions?
Please contact: phq.contact@gmail.com