Brand name: DOSTINEX® - CMI
Cabergoline 500 microgram

(Pfizer)
CONSUMER MEDICINE INFORMATION

All medicines have risks and benefits. Your doctor has weighed the risks of you using Dostinex against the benefits they expect it will have for you.If you have any concerns about using this medicine, ask your doctor or pharmacist.

Keep this leaflet with the medicine.

You may need to read it again.
What Dostinex is used for
Dostinex may be prescribed by your doctor to reduce your body's level of a hormone known as prolactin. Dostinex may be needed if your levels of prolactin are abnormally high (hyperprolactinaemia).

Abnormally high prolactin may cause menstrual changes in women, and impotence in men.

Dostinex can also be prescribed to prevent the production of milk in women after birth, if breast-feeding is to be prevented for medical reasons.Ask your doctor if you have any questions about why this medicine has been prescribed for you.

Your doctor may have prescribed it for another reason.

Dostinex is only available with a doctor's prescription.
Before you start to use it
When you must not use it

Do not take Dostinex if you have an allergy to:

• any medicine containing cabergoline
• any of the ingredients listed at the end of this leaflet
• ergot alkaloids (medicines used to treat migraine)

Some of the symptoms of an allergic reaction may include shortness of breath, wheezing or difficulty breathing; swelling of the face, lips, tongue or other parts of the body; rash, itching or hives on the skin.

Do not take Dostinex if you have or have had any lung problems associated with the use of dopamine agonists.

Do not take this medicine if you are pregnant.

It may affect your developing baby if you take it during pregnancy.

Do not give this medicine to a child under the age of 16 years.

There is little experience with the use of Dostinex in children.

Do not take this medicine after the expi