Heart attack or heart-related chest pain informational guide...

Heart Attack or Heart-related Chest Pain

After a life-changing event we often think of our lives differently. The path you were traveling along has suddenly been altered. And you’ll want to do everything you can to help keep another heart attack or heart-related chest pain or stroke from being a part of your future. Here you’ll learn what causes a heart attack and how PLAVIX taken with aspirin can help protect, along with finding questions for your doctor and tips for coping after a heart attack.

PLAVIX helps reduce your future risk

PLAVIX is a prescription antiplatelet medicine that helps protect against another heart attack or stroke. Reducing your risk with PLAVIX taken with aspirin may be especially important because having a heart attack, or even heart-related chest pain, increases the ongoing risk of future events, including a future heart attack or even stroke.

What to do next:

Find out what causes a heart attack or
heart-related chest pain

See how PLAVIX can help

View our latest heart attack video

Talking with your doctor

The important questions you need to ask your doctor about PLAVIX.

PLAVIX taken with aspirin

PLAVIX, taken with aspirin, plays its own role in helping to keep platelets from sticking together.

Recovery Guide

Download "Looking ahead"—your guide to recovery after a heart attack or heart-related chest pain.

Important Safety Information: Certain genetic factors and some medicines such as Prilosec reduce the effect of PLAVIX leaving you at greater risk for heart attack and stroke. Your doctor may use genetic tests to determine treatment. Don’t stop taking PLAVIX without talking to your doctor as your risk of heart attack or stroke may increase. People with stomach ulcers or conditions that cause bleeding should not use PLAVIX. Taking PLAVIX alone or with some other medicines, including aspirin, may increase bleeding risk, so tell your doctor when planning surgery. Tell your doctor all medicines you take, including aspirin, especially if you’ve had a stroke. If fever, unexplained weakness or confusion develops, tell your doctor promptly. These may be signs of TTP, a rare but potentially life-threatening condition, reported sometimes less than 2 weeks after starting PLAVIX. Other rare but serious side effects may occur.

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Please consult your doctor if you have any questions about your health or your medicine.

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