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Is TAVALISSE right for you?

There’s a lot to think about when choosing an ITP treatment. I like that TAVALISSE helps get my platelet count up and is easy to take. —Patient taking TAVALISSE

When choosing a treatment for chronic ITP, there are many considerations

Identify your personal goals to help find a chronic ITP treatment that's best for you

Because chronic ITP is a long-term disease, it is important to consider how well treatment fits in with your priorities and goals. It should help reduce your risk of bleeding by increasing your platelet counts, while also fitting into your lifestyle, so you can stick with it over time. What matters most may be different for everyone, just like the symptoms of chronic ITP.

Think about what is important to you, such as:

  • What are your personal goals of treatment?
  • How is treatment administered?
  • How often do you need to take the medication?
  • Can you eat before, during, or after you take the medication?
  • What are the potential side effects?
  • What type of monitoring is required and how often is it needed?

Start the conversation with your healthcare provider about ITP treatment with TAVALISSE

Please take a few minutes to answer the following questions; when you’re done, a print-friendly PDF of this Discussion Guide will be available for download.

Be sure to take the Discussion Guide to your next appointment and share your answers with your healthcare provider to help them determine if you’re getting the most out of your current ITP treatment, and whether TAVALISSE is an appropriate treatment for you.

If you prefer, you can download the Discussion Guide if you don’t have time to complete it today.

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Setting Your Treatment Goal

Treatment success is about more than just an increase in your platelet counts. Identifying your personal goals—like getting back to traveling, hiking, or other activities—and discussing them with your healthcare provider can also help guide your treatment plan. Watch this video to learn from advanced nurse practitioner Charina Toste about setting treatment goals and tracking your progress.

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Important Safety Information

What is TAVALISSE?

TAVALISSE is a prescription medication used to treat adults with low platelet counts due to chronic immune thrombocytopenia (ITP) when a prior treatment for ITP has not worked well enough. It is not known if TAVALISSE is safe and effective in children.

What is the most important information I should know about TAVALISSE?

TAVALISSE can cause serious side effects including: 

  • High blood pressure (hypertension). New or worsening high blood pressure is common in people treated with TAVALISSE and can be severe. Your healthcare provider will check your blood pressure regularly during treatment with TAVALISSE. If needed, your healthcare provider may start you on blood pressure medicine or change your current medicine to treat your blood pressure. Tell your healthcare provider if you get headaches, confusion, dizziness, chest pain, or shortness of breath.
  • Liver problems. Changes in liver function blood tests are common with TAVALISSE. Liver problems may occur and can be severe. Your healthcare provider will regularly do blood tests to check how well your liver is working during treatment with TAVALISSE.
  • Diarrhea. Diarrhea is common in people treated with TAVALISSE and can be severe. Tell your healthcare provider if you get diarrhea during treatment with TAVALISSE. Your healthcare provider may recommend changes in your diet, drinking more water, or medicine to limit these symptoms.
  • Decreases in white blood cell count (neutropenia). Decreases in your white blood cell count are common with TAVALISSE and can be severe. This may increase your risk for infection, including serious infections. Your healthcare provider will regularly do blood tests to check your white blood cell counts.

Your healthcare provider may change your dose, temporarily stop, or permanently stop treatment with TAVALISSE if you have side effects.

What do I need to discuss with my healthcare provider before taking TAVALISSE?

Before you take TAVALISSE, tell your healthcare provider about all of your medical conditions, including if you: 

  • have high blood pressure
  • have liver problems
  • are pregnant or plan to become pregnant. TAVALISSE can harm your unborn baby.
    • Your healthcare provider will check if you are pregnant before starting treatment with TAVALISSE.
    • Females who can become pregnant should use effective birth control during treatment with TAVALISSE and for at least 1 month after the last dose.

Tell your healthcare provider about all the medicines you take, including prescription and over-the-counter medicines, vitamins, and herbal supplements. Taking TAVALISSE with certain other medicines may affect how the other medicines work or how TAVALISSE works. 

What are the possible side effects of TAVALISSE?

The most common side effects of TAVALISSE include:

  • Nausea, rash, dizziness, tiredness, respiratory infection, chest pain, and stomach (abdomen) pain.

These are not all the side effects of TAVALISSE. For more information, ask your healthcare provider or pharmacist. Call your doctor for medical advice about side effects. You may report side effects to FDA, at 1-800-FDA-1088. 

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Important Safety Information

What is TAVALISSE?

TAVALISSE is a prescription medication used to treat adults with low platelet counts due to chronic immune thrombocytopenia (ITP) when a prior treatment for ITP has not worked well enough. It is not known if TAVALISSE is safe and effective in children.

What is the most important information I should know about TAVALISSE?

TAVALISSE can cause serious side effects including:

  • High blood pressure (hypertension). New or worsening high blood pressure is common in people treated with TAVALISSE and can be severe. Your healthcare provider will check your blood pressure regularly during treatment with TAVALISSE. If needed, your healthcare provider may start you on blood pressure medicine or change your current medicine to treat your blood pressure. Tell your healthcare provider if you get headaches, confusion, dizziness, chest pain, or shortness of breath.

September is ITP Awareness month

Join Rigel in helping to raise awareness of immune thrombocytopenia (ITP) and showing support for ITP patients, care partners, and healthcare providers

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