Tamsulosin Treatment Report
Most Popular Brands: Flomax
What is Tamsulosin?
Tamsulosin is used to manage the signs and symptoms of benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH). It relaxes the smooth muscle in the bladder neck and prostate causing an improvement of urine flow. Off label it is used for symptomatic treatment of bladder outlet obstruction or dysfunction.
Reasons taken & Efficacy
| Reasons taken | # of patients | Major | Moderate | Slight | None | Can’t tell | # of patients evaluated by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bladder problems | 43 |
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7 | |||
| Urinary retention | 8 | 0 | |||||
| Other | 3 | 0 | |||||
| Urgency - hesitancy | 3 | 0 | |||||
| and forency bladder control during the day | 1 | 0 | |||||
| disease-related symptoms | 1 | 0 |
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Side Effects
Dosages
Stop Reasons
| Reason | # Patients | Percentage of patients | |
|---|---|---|---|
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Did not seem to work
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3 | 23% |
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Side effects too severe
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3 | 23% |
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Course of treatment ended
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3 | 23% |
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Doctor's advice
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2 | 15% |
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Other
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2 | 15% |
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Not indicated
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1 | 8% |
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Adherence, Burden & Cost See details from patient evaluations ▼
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Patient Evaluations
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- mammananny
- Sex: F
- Sensation: Moderate
- Overall: Moderate
- Cognition: moderate
- Vision: moderate
- Speech: moderate
- Swallowing: moderate
- Upper limb: moderate
- Walking: moderate
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- mammananny
- 0.4 mg daily
- since Jul 31, 2008
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Efficacy
Moderate
for Bladder problems
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Side Effects
Severe
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- seajay
- Sex: M
- Sensation: Moderate
- Overall: None
- Cognition: none
- Vision: none
- Speech: none
- Swallowing: mild
- Upper limb: none
- Walking: mild
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- seajay
- 0.8 mg daily
- since Sep 17, 2009
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Efficacy
Major
for Bladder problems
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Side Effects
None
- Advice/Tips Taken WITH and must be WITH ditropan. Impact...bladder is now close to "normal" ...few "accidents"...not the case "pre" See full evaluation
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- pc4069
- Sex: M
- Sensation: Moderate
- Overall: Mild
- Cognition: moderate
- Vision: moderate
- Speech: none
- Swallowing: none
- Upper limb: none
- Walking: moderate
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- pc4069
- 0.4 mg daily
- since Oct 08, 2009
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Efficacy
Moderate
for Bladder problems
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Side Effects
Mild
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See all 7 patient evaluations
Report created on November 23, 2009.