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Information and Resources

Use the buttons below to access educational video content and downloadable resources designed to help you reach your treatment goals.

Connie's Story: A Real Patient's Journey to Success

ITP Diagnosis and Early Treatment

Connie shares her experiences and challenges with ITP, including how she and her healthcare team worked together to stabilize her platelet counts.

A Different Approach to Treating ITP

Connie talks about how TAVALISSE works differently from the other medications she has tried to help her achieve her treatment goals.

Controlling Chronic ITP with TAVALISSE

Connie discusses how TAVALISSE fits into her lifestyle with the convenience of a pill that can be taken with or without food.

The TAVALISSE Treatment Journey With Advanced Nurse Practitioner Charina Toste

A Different Approach to Treatment

Chronic ITP can become serious if left untreated, but it can be effectively managed with the right treatment. This video describes chronic ITP and how TAVALISSE works.

What to Expect with TAVALISSE

Knowing what to expect from your medication can help you reach your treatment goals. Watch this video to learn what you can expect during treatment with TAVALISSE.

Fitting TAVALISSE into Your Lifestyle

To get the benefit of your medication, you need to take it as prescribed. Therefore, it’s important to have a medication with dosing flexibility. This video shares tips on how to fit TAVALISSE into your lifestyle.

Setting Your Treatment Goals

Identifying your personal goals—like getting back to traveling, hiking, or other activities—and discussing them with your healthcare provider are important steps to achieving treatment success. Learn about setting treatment goals and tracking your progress.

Raynelle's Story: Overcoming ITP Disruptions With TAVALISSE

Patient Experience–Raynelle's Story

For a decade, Raynelle struggled with frequent disruptions in her daily routine due to chronic ITP. Then her doctor prescribed TAVALISSE. Watch this video to hear more about her journey.

TAVALISSE Brochure

Gives you an overview of the benefits and safety profile of TAVALISSE and what you can expect from treatment.

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The TAVALISSE Treatment Journal

Take advantage of suggestions that will help you incorporate TAVALISSE into your lifestyle, stay on track with your treatment, and monitor your progress.

Be sure to share the information you record in this journal with your healthcare provider at each appointment.

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TAVALISSE Patient InformationDownload

Read important information about TAVALISSE, including for whom TAVALISSE is intended, how to take TAVALISSE, and what to expect while on treatment.

TAVALISSE Discussion GuideDownload

There are many considerations when choosing a treatment for chronic ITP, such as how it fits with your priorities, goals, and lifestyle. By answering the questions in this guide and sharing your responses with your healthcare provider, together you can determine if TAVALISSE is right for you.

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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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