Tennessee CoverRx Covered Drug List – Effective January 1, 2019 Form Number: TNCX1214 Revision Date: January 2019 © 2019, Magellan Health, Inc. Data Class: Public How to use Plavix. Read the Medication Guide provided by your pharmacist before you start taking clopidogrel and each time you get a refill. If you have any questions, ask your doctor or pharmacist. Read all of this leaflet carefully before you start taking this medicine because it contains important information for you. - Keep this leaflet. Clopidogrel official prescribing information for healthcare professionals. Includes: indications, dosage, adverse reactions, pharmacology and more. By mouth. For Adult. Loading dose 300 mg, to be taken prior to the procedure, alternatively loading dose 600 mg, higher dose may produce a greater and more rapid inhibition of platelet aggregation. Clopidogrel is used to prevent heart attacks and strokes in persons with heart disease (recent heart attack), recent stroke, or blood circulation disease (peripheral vascular disease). Learn about side effects, drug interactions, dosages, warnings, and more. Patient information for CLOPIDOGREL 75 MG FILM-COATED TABLET Including dosage instructions and possible side effects. Each film-coated tablet contains 75 mg of clopidogrel (as hydrogen sulphate) Excipients with known effect: Each film-coated tablet contains 67.6 mg lactose and 7.5 mg hydrogenated castor oil Clopidogrel oral tablet is a prescription drug that’s available as the brand-name drug Plavix. It’s also available as a generic drug. Generic drugs usually cost less than the brand-name version. DOSAGE AND ADMINISTRATION Acute Coronary Syndrome. In patients who need an antiplatelet effect within hours, initiate Plavix with a single 300 mg oral loading dose and then continue at 75 mg once daily.