Tacrolimus Side Effects

First just let me show them in a list from Mayo Clinic:

More common

• Abnormal dreams ✅
• agitation
• chills ✅
• blurred vision ✅
• confusion
• cough ✅
• diarrhea ✅
• dizziness ✅
• dry mouth ✅
• fever
• flushed, dry skin ✅
• frequent urination ✅
• fruit-like breath odor
• general feeling of discomfort or illness ✅
• headache
• increased hunger ✅
• increased thirst ✅
• increased urination ✅
• itching, skin rash ✅
• joint pain
• loss of appetite ✅
• loss of consciousness ✅
• loss of energy or weakness ✅
• mental depression
• muscle pains, trembling, or twitching
• nausea ✅
• pale skin
• runny nose ✅
• seeing or hearing things that are not there
• seizures
• shivering ✅
• sore throat ✅
• stomach pain ✅
• sweating ✅
• swelling of the feet or lower legs
• tingling ✅
• trembling and shaking of the hands
• trouble breathing
• trouble sleeping ✅
• unexplained weight loss ✅
• unusual bleeding or bruising
• unusual tiredness or weakness
• vomiting ✅

Less common

• Chest pain
• increased sensitivity to pain
• muscle cramps ✅
• numbness or pain in the legs ✅
• ringing in the ears

Rare

• Enlarged heart
• flushing of the face or neck
• weight loss ✅

Out of the plethoria of items, I have had the joy of experiecing about one-half of them. The latest theory is by taking the anti-viral aimed at my throat infection, I need to take down my tacrolimus intake by one, leaving the doctors without much room to manueuvr. I need to take tacrolimus but with only one pill, the test returns 12.0. I was nornally at 6-8 previously, but now they want it to be over 10.0, whlich will trigger more side effects in quantity and intensity.

Looking through all the documents the hospital generates, I dug around and found a Tacrolimus tapering schedule based on body weight: