Dosing With Lovastatin

Your healthcare provider will consider a number of factors before prescribing your drug dosing. With lovastatin, these factors will generally include: your age, what you are being treated for, existing medical conditions you have, other medications you may be taking, and your cholesterol goal. The average daily dose of lovastatin for adults is 10 mg to 80 mg, and for children, the recommended starting dosage is 10 mg to 20 mg once daily.

 

Dosing With Lovastatin: An Introduction

The dosage of Lovastatin tablets ("lovastatin") that your healthcare provider recommends will vary depending on a number of factors, including:
 
As is always the case, do not adjust your lovastatin dose unless specifically instructed by your healthcare provider to do so.
 

Dosing With Lovastatin: High Cholesterol

The recommended starting dosage of lovastatin for most people with
 high cholesterol is lovastatin 20 mg once a day, taken with the evening meal.
 
After several weeks, your healthcare provider will recommend that you return to recheck your cholesterol levels. If you have not reached your cholesterol goal at this time, your healthcare provider may choose to increase your lovastatin dosage. The dosage can also be decreased if side effects occur. The average daily dosage is lovastatin 10 mg to lovastatin 80 mg once a day or split into two divided doses. The maximum recommended daily dose of lovastatin is 80 mg.
 
If you are over 65 years of age, taking cyclosporine (Gengraf®, Neoral®, Sandimmune®) or danazol (Danocrine®) or have severe kidney disease, your healthcare provider may choose to start you on a lower dose of lovastatin medication, such as lovastatin 10 mg daily.
 
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Written by/reviewed by: Kristi Monson, PharmD; Arthur Schoenstadt, MD
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