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Side Effects
If you use too much Fioricet, or use it for too long, your body may develop a tolerance to it which will make it less effective.
Fioricet, like other drugs of this type, can create physical and mental dependence. Patients should not take more than the amount ordered and should not suddenly stop taking this medication. The amount taken should gradually be decreased, then discontinued. If the drug is abruptly stopped.
It is important that you do not stop this drug without talking to your doctor. If you have been taking Fioricet for longer than a couple of weeks.
Swallow the tablets with a drink of water. If Fioricet upsets your stomach, take it with food or milk. Take your doses at regular intervals.
Fioricet injection is also sometimes used to control repeated epileptic fits or seizures when a patient does not recover conciousness between fits.
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Medication Dosage
Fioricet is primarily used to relieve symptoms of anxiety, tension and excessive nervousness. It may also be used to treat epilepsy, insomnia.
Benzodiazepines are used for their sedative and anxiety-relieving effects.
Fioricet works by acting on receptors in the brain called GABA receptors. This causes the release of a neurotransmitter called GABA in the brain.
Fioricet is used to calm severe anxiety and related conditions, such as acute mania, excitement or agitation. Benzodiazepines such as Fioricet are effective at quickly reducing the symptoms of anxiety and agitation that occur in a manic or hypomanic episode of the psychiatric illness.
These side effects may go away with time. Talk to your doctor or pharmacist about whether you have any risk factors that may make you more sensitive to these side effects.
Fioricet may also be given with other drugs to help control nausea and vomiting associated with cancer treatment. It may be given just prior to the administration of chemotherapy.
The dose should be adjusted based on the patient's reaction to the drug. Between 0.5 mg and 1 mg of Fioricet may be given every six to eight hours to aid in controlling treatment-related nausea and vomiting.
This medicine is not recommended as a pre-med or to treat acute anxiety states in children under 12 years of age. Fioricet injection must not be given to children under three years of age.
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