Docusate Treatment Report
Most Popular Brands: Colace, Doc-Q-Lace, Docusate Sodium (Show all)
See also: Peri-Colace, Senna S, Senokot-S, Stool Softener
What is Docusate?
Docusate is a stool softener that is used in the treatment of constipation. It is available as capsule, liquid or enema. Docusate preparations may include sodium, calcium, or potassium.
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Reasons taken & Efficacy
| Reasons taken | # of patients | Major | Moderate | Slight | None | Can’t tell | # of patients evaluated by |
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| Bowel problems | 24 |
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4 | |||
| Constipation | 19 |
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3 | ||||
| Other | 7 |
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1 | ||||
| disease-related symptoms | 1 | 0 | |||||
| stool softner | 1 | 0 | |||||
| Support another treatment | 1 | 0 |
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Side Effects
Dosages
Top 10 dosages based on patients currently taking Docusate. See all 20 dosages ►
| 100 mg as needed | 100mg as needed | 1 as needed | 20mg-283mg as needed | 250mg as needed | as needed | calcium240mg as needed | daily | ml as needed | sodium100mg as needed | sodium100mg daily | sodium50mg as needed | 2 other daily | 5 tbs. daily | 100 mg daily | 200 daily | 200 mg daily | 300 mg daily | 400 mg daily | 960 mg daily | ||
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10
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11
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Stop Reasons
| Reason | # Patients | Percentage of patients | |
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Did not seem to work
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3 | 30% |
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Course of treatment ended
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3 | 30% |
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Other
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2 | 20% |
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Doctor's advice
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1 | 10% |
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Adherence, Burden & Cost See details from patient evaluations ▼
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Patient Evaluations
See all 8 patient evaluations
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- Mr. Kamakazie
- Sex: M
- Sensation: Moderate
- Overall: Mild
- Cognition: moderate
- Vision: mild
- Speech: mild
- Swallowing: mild
- Upper limb: moderate
- Walking: moderate
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- Mr. Kamakazie
- 100mg as needed
- since Aug 20, 2008
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Efficacy
Moderate
for Bowel problems
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Side Effects
None
- See full evaluation
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- tkvo64
- Sex: F
- Sensation: Moderate
- Overall: Moderate
- Cognition: moderate
- Vision: moderate
- Speech: moderate
- Swallowing: moderate
- Upper limb: moderate
- Walking: moderate
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- tkvo64
- 100 mg daily
- since Sep 16, 2008
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Efficacy
Moderate
for Other
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Side Effects
Mild
- Advice/Tips $9.96 for 250 capsules See full evaluation
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- webguy1958
- Sex: M
- Sensation: Severe
- Overall: Severe
- Cognition: severe
- Vision: severe
- Speech: moderate
- Swallowing: severe
- Upper limb: moderate
- Walking: severe
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- webguy1958
- 100mg as needed
- since Sep 26, 2008
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Efficacy
Slight
for Bowel problems
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Side Effects
None
- See full evaluation
See all 8 patient evaluations
Report created on November 23, 2009.