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Do not use PUREGON if you:

• are allergic (hypersensitive) to follitropin beta or any of the other ingredients of PUREGON
• have a tumour of the ovary, breast, uterus, testis, pituitary gland or hypothalamus
• are pregnant or breast-feeding
• have heavy or irregular vaginal bleeding where the cause is not known
• suffer from primary ovarian failure
• have ovarian cysts or enlarged ovaries not caused by polycystic ovarian disease (PCOD)
• have malformations of the sexual organs which make a normal pregnancy impossible
• have fibroids in the uterus which make a normal pregnancy impossible.

Take special care with PUREGON

Please inform your doctor if you have experienced an allergic reaction to neomycin and/or streptomycin (antibiotics) in the past.

Close supervision by your doctor is very important. Usually ultrasound scans of the ovaries are regularly made, and blood or urine samples are regularly taken. The results of these tests allow your doctor to choose the correct dose of PUREGON from day to day. This is very important since too high a dose of FSH may lead to rare but serious complications in which the ovaries become overstimulated. This may be noticed as pain in the abdomen. Regular monitoring of the response to FSH-treatment helps your doctor to prevent ovarian overstimulation. So contact your doctor without delay if you are experiencing significant abdominal pain, also if this occurs some days after the last injection has been given.

Treatment with PUREGON (like pregnancy itself) may increase the risk of thrombosis (the formation of a blood clot in a blood vessel, most often in the veins of the legs or the lungs).

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