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Side Effects
Be sure to tell your health-care practitioner if you experience any side effects while taking clonidine. Only your health-care practitioner can determine whether it is safe for you to continue taking this drug.
Tablets
- Most Common: dry mouth, sedation, constipation, drowsiness
- Common: headache, fatigue, dizziness. These take about 4 to 6 weeks to disappear.
- Less Common: loss of appetite, nausea, vomiting, weight gain, breast pain or enlargement, swollen, painful glands in the throat, heart failure, palpitations, rapid heartbeat, dizziness when rising quickly from a lying or seated position, problems sleeping, hallucinations, anxiety, depression, nervousness, restlessness, rash, difficult or painful urination, dry nose, dry and burning eyes, fever, joint and muscle pain, leg cramps, thinning or loss of scalp hair, nightmares, reduced or loss of sex drive
Transdermal Patch
- Most Common: dry mouth, drowsiness
- Less Common: nausea, constipation, taste changes, dry throat, fatigue, headache, lethargy, nervousness, dizziness, impotence, mild skin reactions (itching, swelling, burning, peeling, white patches)
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