Incivek side effects by duration, gender and age - a phase IV clinical study of FDA data
Summary:
Side effects are reported by people who take Incivek. Common side effects include anaemia among females and anaemia among males.
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15,492 people who take Incivek and have side effects are studied.
What is Incivek?
Incivek has active ingredients of telaprevir. It is often used in hepatitis c. eHealthMe is studying from 15,524 Incivek users for its effectiveness, alternative drugs and more.
Number of Incivek reports submitted per year:

Incivek side effects by time on the drug *:
Incivek side effects by gender *:
Incivek side effects by age *:
* Approximation only. Some reports may have incomplete information.
Do you take Incivek?
Personalize this study to your gender and ageHow to use the study?
You can discuss the study with your doctor, to ensure that all drug risks and benefits are fully discussed and understood.
How the study uses the data?
The study is based on telaprevir (the active ingredients of Incivek) and Incivek (the brand name). Other drugs that have the same active ingredients (e.g. generic drugs) are not considered.
Related studies
Alternative drugs to, pros and cons of Incivek:
- Incivek (15,524 reports)
Common Incivek side effects:
- Abdominal discomfort: 173 reports
- Abdominal distension: 182 reports
- Abdominal pain: 185 reports
- Abdominal pain upper: 211 reports
- Acute kidney failure: 109 reports
- Adverse event: 137 reports
- Agranulocytosis (a deficiency of granulocytes in the blood, causing increased vulnerability to infection): 154 reports
- Anaemia (lack of blood): 2,096 reports
- Anal pruritus (anal itching): 729 reports
- Anorectal discomfort: 1,398 reports
- Appetite - decreased (decreased appetite occurs when you have a reduced desire to eat): 883 reports
- Back pain: 176 reports
- Blister (small pocket of fluid within the upper layers of the skin caused by forceful rubbing (friction), burning, freezing, chemical exposure): 207 reports
- Breathing difficulty: 962 reports
- Chest pain: 260 reports
- Chills (felling of cold): 684 reports
- Confusional state: 190 reports
- Constipation: 286 reports
- Cough: 275 reports
- Death: 124 reports
- Dehydration (dryness resulting from the removal of water): 288 reports
- Depression: 512 reports
- Diarrhea: 1,510 reports
- Dizziness: 859 reports
- Drowsiness: 203 reports
- Drug ineffective: 495 reports
- Drug intolerance (drug sensitivity): 149 reports
- Drug rash with eosinophilia and systemic symptoms (adverse drug reactions with rash): 107 reports
- Dry mouth: 224 reports
- Dry skin: 317 reports
- Fatigue (feeling of tiredness): 2,863 reports
- Fever: 915 reports
- Haematochezia (passage of stools containing blood): 203 reports
- Haemoglobin decreased: 464 reports
- Haemorrhoids (a swollen vein or group of veins in the region of the anus): 712 reports
- Hair loss: 317 reports
- Headache (pain in head): 1,247 reports
- Head injury: 102 reports
- Hyperhidrosis (abnormally increased sweating): 138 reports
- Hypoaesthesia (reduced sense of touch or sensation): 107 reports
- Hypotension (abnormally low blood pressure): 151 reports
- Indigestion: 152 reports
- Influenza like illness: 745 reports
- Injection site erythema (redness at injection site): 140 reports
- Insomnia (sleeplessness): 770 reports
- Irritability: 277 reports
- Itching: 1,868 reports
- Joint pain: 314 reports
- Loss of consciousness: 127 reports
- Malaise (a feeling of general discomfort or uneasiness): 438 reports
- Memory loss: 203 reports
- Mood swings (an extreme or rapid change in mood): 148 reports
- Muscle aches (muscle pain): 228 reports
- Muscle spasms (muscle contraction): 143 reports
- Nausea (feeling of having an urge to vomit): 2,651 reports
- Nausea and vomiting: 1,360 reports
- Nosebleed (bleeding from nose): 164 reports
- Oedema peripheral (superficial swelling): 216 reports
- Oropharyngeal pain: 143 reports
- Pain: 676 reports
- Pain in extremity: 159 reports
- Pancytopenia (medical condition in which there is a reduction in the number of red and white blood cells, as well as platelets): 101 reports
- Paraesthesia (sensation of tingling, tickling, prickling, pricking, or burning of a person's skin with no apparent long-term physical effect): 114 reports
- Pneumonia: 187 reports
- Proctalgia (pain in the rectum): 351 reports
- Pruritus generalised (generalized itching): 368 reports
- Rash erythematous (redness of the skin): 245 reports
- Rashes (redness): 2,934 reports
- Rash macular (small, flat red spots): 115 reports
- Rash papular (redness with papule): 232 reports
- Rash pruritic (redness with itching): 712 reports
- Rectal haemorrhage (bleeding from anus): 233 reports
- Red blood cell count decreased: 265 reports
- Skin exfoliation (removal of the oldest dead skin cells): 147 reports
- Stomatitis (inflammation of mucous membrane of mouth): 198 reports
- Stress and anxiety: 347 reports
- Swelling face: 166 reports
- Taste - impaired: 493 reports
- Thrombocytopenia (decrease of platelets in blood): 624 reports
- Tremor (trembling or shaking movements in one or more parts of your body): 168 reports
- Urticaria (rash of round, red welts on the skin that itch intensely): 126 reports
- Vision blurred: 211 reports
- Visual impairment: 105 reports
- Weakness: 1,000 reports
- Weight decreased: 577 reports
- Weight increased: 258 reports
- White blood cell count decreased: 721 reports
All Incivek side effects from A to Z:
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