Diflucan is intended for oral administration - you can take it with some food or without. Always drink a full glass of water with your dose of Diflucan to make sure the medicine starts dissolving only once in your stomach. Talk to you health care provider about combining Diflucan with any other medications that you are taking at the moment. Make sure you take it at the same time every day and avoid missing doses. If you happened to miss a dose of Diflucan – take it as soon as possible. However, it often happens so that you remember about the dose missed only when it’s time to take the next one. In that case do not change the schedule of taking Diflucan and never use two doses at once – just skip the dose you missed and go back to the regular schedule of using Diflucan. Make sure you take Diflucan as recommended by your health care provider, as if you stop before it’s time your fungus can develop resistance to antibiotics. This can make it more difficult for you to treat the infection. Long-term treatment with Diflucan is possible only if your health care provider recommended doing otherwise. If you have been taking this medicine for a long time, your health care provider may tell you to switch to some other medicine. Diflucan can interfere with the effectiveness of birth control pills (the hormonal ones). To avoid getting pregnant you will need to use an additional form of birth control that your healthcare provider can tell you more about. Lab tests may be required to access the efficiency of your treatment, so you will need to show up for regular appointments. Never share your medicine with other people to whom it was not prescribed, as you may not be aware of their contraindications. Contraindications for taking Diflucan can include pregnancy, breastfeeding, a history of an allergic reaction to this medicine and some other ones. Obviously, it’s impossible for you to determine whether the aspects mentioned are present, and so the person with whom you decide to share Diflucan may not benefit from it as much as you think they would. Instead of sharing your medicine with others, take it exactly as prescribed and try to avoid skipping doses or missing them. You may need to come up with some way to remember when you are supposed to take Diflucan in order to get as many benefits out of the treatment as possible. Do not change the dose of Diflucan without previously consulting your doctor, as there may be some factors that will prevent you from benefitting from a higher dose. In case you need to have your dose adjusted (due to some side effects or whatever) make sure you have your health care provider’s consent. This is the only way to benefit from your treatment without suffering from serious side effects. If anything is not clear about how you are supposed to take Diflucan - do not hesitate to contact your doctor, as that’s what he is there for. You can also get additional information from reading your label or consulting your pharmacies about any questions that you may have about taking Diflucan safely.