Diclofenac Treatment Report
Most Popular Brands: Voltaren, Voltaren Gel, Voltaren XR (Show all)
See also: Diclofenac Epolamine Patch
What is Diclofenac?
Diclofenac is a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) taken to reduce inflammation and pain in conditions such as in arthritis or acute injury. Preparations available as diclofenac sodium, diclofenac potassium, diclofenac epolamine.
Reasons taken & Efficacy
| Reasons taken | # of patients | Major | Moderate | Slight | None | Can’t tell | # of patients evaluated by |
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| Pain | 44 |
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| Other | 16 |
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| joint pain | 12 |
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| Inflammation, joints | 10 |
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| Inflammation | 8 |
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| Arthritis | 8 |
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See all 107 patients currently taking Diclofenac
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Side Effects
Dosages
Top 10 dosages based on patients currently taking Diclofenac. See all 32 dosages ►
| 150mg as needed | 1g as needed | 1other as needed | 25 other all the time (24/7) | 4g as needed | 50 mg as needed | 50mg as needed | 8 mg as needed | daily | sodium100mg as needed | sodium25mg as needed | sodium50mg as needed | sodium75mg as needed | 1 mg daily | 1.3 g daily | 2 g daily | 2 hr daily | 4 g daily | 4 mg daily | 4 mg one time | 6 g daily | 100 g weekly | 20 g daily | 25 mg daily | 30 mg daily | 32 g daily | 50 mg daily | 75 mg daily | 100 mg daily | 150 mg daily | 200 mg daily | 225 mg daily | ||
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Stop Reasons
| Reason | # Patients | Percentage of patients | |
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Did not seem to work
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16 | 37% |
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Course of treatment ended
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8 | 19% |
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Doctor's advice
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8 | 19% |
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Side effects too severe
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6 | 14% |
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Other
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5 | 12% |
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Personal research
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2 | 5% |
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Not indicated
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1 | 2% |
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Adherence, Burden & Cost See details from patient evaluations ▼
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Patient Evaluations
See all 28 patient evaluations
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- six
- Sex: F
- Pain: Most
- Fatigue: All
- Sleep: All
- Stiffness: All
- function: None
- external_stress: Some
- Stickman: all
- Description:F55y
- FM:17y Dx
- See profile
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- six
- 4 g daily
- since Dec 06, 2008
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Efficacy
Major
for Other
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Side Effects
None
- Advice/Tips It reduces or eliminates joint pain See full evaluation
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- NW native son
- Sex: M
- Sensation: Moderate
- Overall: Moderate
- Cognition: moderate
- Vision: mild
- Speech: mild
- Swallowing: moderate
- Upper limb: moderate
- Walking: moderate
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- NW native son
- 200 mg daily
- since Mar 19, 2009
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Efficacy
Can't tell
for Pain
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Side Effects
None
- See full evaluation
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- goldielocks
- Sex: F
- Pain: Some
- Fatigue: All
- Sleep: Little
- Stiffness: Little
- function: Little
- external_stress: Some
- Stickman: some
- Description:F38y
- FM:1y Dx
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- goldielocks
- 150 mg daily
- since Jan 20, 2009
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Efficacy
Moderate
for Other
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Side Effects
Moderate
- Advice/Tips That it does help with the pain and inflamation See full evaluation
See all 28 patient evaluations
Report created on November 21, 2009.