Other Names: Cefixime. Commonly Prescribed For: Suprax is a cephalosporin antibiotic, generally prescribed for treating infections due to bacteria like urinary tract infections, pneumonia, throat infections, bronchitis, lung infections and gonorrhea. Suprax is commonly used with other medications. How to Take it: Suprax is available in the form of a tablet, and as liquid to [...]
Other Names: Efavirenz, Atripla. Commonly Prescribed For: Sustiva is generally prescribed for treating human immunodeficiency virus infection in people either with or without AIDS. This medication can also e used along with other medications for preventing in people who were exposed to HIV. It is commonly used with other medications. How to Take it: Sustiva [...]
Other Names: Fluocinolone. Commonly Prescribed For: Synalar Cream is generally prescribed for treating itchiness, inflammation, redness, scaling, dryness, and discomfort of different skin conditions. It is commonly used with other medications. How to Take it: Synalar Cream is available in the form of an ointment, as cream, as shampoo, and oil to be used on [...]
Other Names: Levothroid, Levoxyl, Unithroid, Levothyroxine. Commonly Prescribed For: Synthroid is a hormone, normally prescribed for treating hypothyroidism (low thyroid hormone). Synthroid is used to treat enlarged thyroid gland due to hormone imbalances, surgical treatment or cancer. It is commonly used with other medications. How to Take it: Take this medication half an hour before [...]
Other Names: Aciphex. Commonly Prescribed For: Raberprazole Sodium is used for treating certain symptoms where the stomach generates too much acid including Zollinger-Ellison syndrome, and ulcers. It can also be used for treating gastroesophageal reflux disease (a condition where the backward flow of acid from stomach into the esophagus leads to heart burn). It eliminates [...]
Other names: Evista, Keoxifene Commonly prescribed for: Raloxifene is generally prescribed for treating and preventing osteoporosis in many women who have experienced menopause. This medication can also be used for reducing the danger of developing breast cancer. It is commonly used with other medications. How to take it: Raloxifene belongs to a group of drugs [...]
Other names: Altace Commonly prescribed for: Ramipril can be used alone or combined with other medications for treating high blood pressure. This medication can also be used for reducing the danger of heart attack in patients who are at a high risk of these problems. It is commonly used with other medications. How to take [...]
Other Names: Ribavirin. Commonly Prescribed For: Rebetol can be used alone or combined with other medications for treating hepatitis C. This medication can also be used sometimes for treating viral hemorrhagic fevers. It can be used for treating severe acute respiratory syndrome. It is commonly used with other medications. How to Take it: Rebetol is [...]
Other names: Edronax. Commonly prescribed for: Reboxetine is generally prescribed for treating depressive illness. This medication can also be used for maintaining clinical improvement in people responding to treatment. It is commonly used with other medications. How to take it: Reboxetine is available in the form of a tablet to be taken via mouth. This [...]
Other names: Metoclopramide Oral, Metoclopramide Hydrochloride Intensol. Commonly prescribed for: Reglan is generally prescribed for relieving nausea, bloating, vomiting, and stomach pin. This medication can also be used for treating slow gastric emptying in patients with diabetes. It can be used for treating heartburn caused due to gastroesophageal reflux in patients for whom other medications [...]
Other names: Mirtazapine. Commonly prescribed for: Remeron is generally prescribed for treating depression. It is commonly used with other medications. How to take it: Remeron is available in the form of a tablet, a disintegrating tablet to be taken via mouth, either with food or without food. This medication is normally taken once every day [...]
Other Names: Tretinoin, Avita, Retin-A. Commonly Prescribed For: Renova is generally prescribed for treating acne, wrinkles, brown spots and roughness on the skin. This medication is said to promote the peeling of skin areas affected by acne and hence unclogs pores. This medication is effective against stretch marks found on the stomach wall in women. [...]
Other Names: Prandin. Commonly Prescribed For: Repaglinide is generally prescribed for treating type 2 diabetes (a condition where the body doesn’t makes use of insulin normally, thereby not able to control the quantity of sugar present in the blood). It is commonly prescribed for other medications. How to Take it: Repaglinide is available in the [...]
Other Names: Ropinirole. Commonly Prescribed For: Requip can be used alone or combined with other medications for treating symptoms of Parkinson’s disease, including shaking body parts, problems with balance and stiffness. This medication can also be used or treating Restless Legs Syndrome. How to Take it: Requip is available in the form of a tablet, [...]
Other Names: Zidovudine Injection, Retrovir I.V. Infusion, AZT Injection. Commonly Prescribed For: Retrovir can be used alone or combined with other medications for treating human immunodeficiency virus infection in people either with or without AIDS. It is commonly used with other medications. How to Take it: Retrovir is available in the form of tablets, capsules, [...]
Other Names: Copegus, Rebetol. Commonly Prescribed For: Ribavirin can be used alone or combined with other medications for treating hepatitis C. This medication can also be used sometimes for treating viral hemorrhagic fevers. It can be used for treating severe acute respiratory syndrome. It is commonly used with other medications. How to Take it: Ribavirin [...]
Other Names: Rifadin, Rimactane. Commonly Prescribed For: Rifampine is generally prescribed for eliminating bacteria that leads to tuberculosis. This medication is combined with other drugs for treating tuberculosis or eliminating Neisseria meningitidis. It is commonly used with other medications. How to Take it: Rifampine is available in the form of a capsule to be taken [...]
Other Names: Isoniazid, Nydrazid, INH. Commonly Prescribed For: Rifater can be used alone or combined with other medications for treating tuberculosis. This medication can also be used for preventing tuberculosis in patients who had some contact with tuberculosis bacteria. It I commonly used with other medications. How to Take it: Rifater is available in the [...]
Other Names: Risperidone. Commonly Prescribed For: Risperdal is generally prescribed for treating the symptoms associated with schizophrenia in adults and in teenagers. This medication can also be used for treating episodes of mania or mixed episodes in adults and teenagers with bipolar disorder. It is commonly used with other medications. How to Take it: Risperdal [...]
Other Names: Risperdal. Commonly Prescribed For: Risperidone is generally prescribed for treating the symptoms associated with schizophrenia in adults and in teenagers. This medication can also be used for treating episodes of mania or mixed episodes in adults and teenagers with bipolar disorder. It is commonly used with other medications. How to Take it: Risperidone [...]
Other Names: Exelon. Commonly Prescribed For: Rivastigmine is generally prescribed for treating dementia in people suffering from Alzheimer’s disease. This medication can also be used for treating dementia in patients with Parkinson’s disease. It can also be used sometimes for treating Lewy body dementia. Rivastigmine is commonly used with other medications. How to Take it: [...]
Other Names: Maxalt Commonly Prescribed For: Rizatriptan is generally prescribed for treating the symptoms associated with migraine headaches (throbbing headaches that are accompanied by sensitivity to noise and light). It is commonly used with medications. How to Take it: Rizatriptan belongs to a group of drugs known as selective serotonin receptor agonists. This medication works [...]
Other Names: Calcitriol Commonly Prescribed For: Rocaltrol is generally prescribed for treating and preventing low levels of calcium present in the blood of patients whose parathyroid are not working normally. This medication can also be used for treating rickets, osteomalacia, and familial hypophosphatemia. It can also be used to increase the quantity of calcium in [...]
Other Names: Requip XL, Requip. Commonly Prescribed For: Ropinirole Hcl can be used alone or combined with other medications for treating symptoms of Parkinson’s disease, including shaking body parts, problems with balance and stiffness. This medication can also be used or treating Restless Legs Syndrome. How to Take it: Ropinirole Hcl is available in the [...]
Other Names: Avandia, Avandaryl, Avandamet. Commonly Prescribed For: Rosiglitazone is normally used along with a diet or with other medications for treating type 2 diabetes (a condition where the body doesn’t uses insulin properly, thereby unable to control the quantity of sugar level in the blood). How to Take it: Rosiglitazone is available in the [...]
Other Names: Crestor. Commonly Prescribed For: Rosuvastatin Calcium is generally combined with diet, or weight loss for decreasing the quantity of cholesterol and other fatty substances present in the blood. Rosuvastatin Calcium is commonly used with other medications. How to Take it: Rosuvastatin Calcium is available in the form of a tablet to be taken [...]
Other names: Surlid, Rulide, Biaxsig, Roxar. Commonly Prescribed For: Roxithromycin is generally prescribed for treating respiratory infections, urinary tract infections, and soft tissue infections. This medication can also be used for treating various bacterial infections. It is commonly used with other medications. How to take it: Roxithromycin is available in the form of tablets or [...]
Other names: Roxithromycin. Commonly prescribed for: Rulide is generally prescribed for treating different types of bacterial infections, such as acute bronchitis, soft tissue infections, acute pharyngitis, skin infections, impetigo, pneumonia, and tonsillitis. This medication can also be used for treating mild to moderate infections of throat, ears, skin, respiratory tract, and genitor-urinary tract infections caused [...]
Other Names: Propafenone Hcl. Commonly Prescribed For: Rythmol is generally prescribed for treating arrhythmias. This medication can also be used for maintaining a normal heart rate. It is commonly used with other medications. How to Take it: Rythmol is available in the form of a tablet to be taken via mouth. This medication is normally [...]
Other names: Qualaquin Commonly prescribed for: Quinine can be used alone or combined with other medications for treating malaria (a life-threatening illness caused due to mosquitoes in some parts of the world). This medication can also be used for treating babesiosis (life-threatening illness, normally spread from animals to human beings by ticks). It is commonly [...]
Other names: Accupril, Accuretic Commonly prescribed for: Quinapril can be used alone or combined with other medications for treating high blood pressure. This medication can also be used with other drugs for treating heart failure. It is commonly used with other medications. How to take it: Quinapril is available in the form of a tablet [...]
Other name: Seroquel Commonly prescribed for: Quetiapine is generally prescribed for treating certain symptoms associated with schizophrenia (a mental illness, which causes unusual thinking, inappropriate emotions, and loss of interest in life). This medication can also be used for treating episodes of mania, or depression in people with bipolar disorder. It is commonly used with [...]
Other Names: Bromocriptine. Commonly Prescribed For: Parlodel is generally prescribed for treating amenorrhea (a condition where menstrual period doesn’t occur), atypical ejection of milk form breasts, and infertility in women, acromegaly (excessive amounts of growth hormone in the body), Parkinson’s disease, and hypogonadism. Parlodel is commonly used with other medications. This medication can also be [...]
Other Names: Protonix. Commonly Prescribed For: Pantoprazole is generally prescribed for treating gastroesophageal reflux disease (a condition where acid flows backward from the stomach and leads to heartburn and esophageal injury). This medication can also be used for treating Zollinger-Ellison syndrome (a condition where the stomach secretes excessive amounts of acid). Pantoprazole is commonly used [...]
Other Names: Nortriptyline, Aventyl. Commonly Prescribed For: Pamelor is generally prescribed for treating depression. This medication can also be used for treating post-herpetic neuralgia (stabbing pains, which last for several months after shingles infection) and panic disorders. Pamelor is commonly used with other medications. How to Take it: Pamelor is available in the form of [...]
Other Names: Paxil. Commonly Prescribed For: Paroxetine Hcl is generally prescribed for treating depression, premenstrual syndrome, panic attacks, post-traumatic stress disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and severe form of anxiety disorders. This medication can also be used for lowering premenstrual symptoms like increased appetite, and depression. How to Take it: Paroxetine Hcl is available in the form [...]
Other Names: Olopatadine Ophthalmic Commonly Prescribed For: Patanol is generally prescribed for treating the symptoms associated with allergic pink eye. It is commonly used with other medications. How to Take it: Patanol is available in the form of an eye drop to be applied to the eye. This medication is normally applied to the eye(s) [...]
Other Names: Paroxetine Hcl, Pexeva. Commonly Prescribed For: Paxil is generally prescribed for treating depression, panic disorder (unexpected attacks of excessive fear), and social anxiety disorder (fear of interacting or performing before others). This medication can also be used for treating obsessive-compulsive disorder, generalized anxiety disorder, and posttraumatic stress disorder. How to Take it: Paxil [...]
Other Names: Paroxetine Hcl CR. Commonly Prescribed For: Paxil-CR is generally prescribed for treating depression, panic disorder (unexpected attacks of excessive fear), and social anxiety disorder (fear of interacting or performing before others). This medication can also be used for treating obsessive-compulsive disorder, generalized anxiety disorder, and posttraumatic stress disorder. How to Take it: Paxil-CR [...]
Other Names: Ciclopirox Topical Solution. Commonly Prescribed For: Penlac is generally prescribed along with regular nail trimming for treating fungal infections of finger and toenails (infections that may lead to nail discoloration and pain). How to Take it: Penlac is available in the form of a solution to be applied to the nails and skin [...]
