What is Fludrocortisone?
Fludrocortisone is a synthetic corticosteroid It is used primarily to replace the missing hormone aldosterone in various forms of adrenal insufficiency such as Addison's disease and congenital adrenal hyperplasia. It is the first line of treatment for orthostatic intolerance.
Reasons taken & Efficacy
| Reasons taken | # of patients | Major | Moderate | Slight | None | Can’t tell | # of patients evaluated by |
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| Support another treatment | 1 |
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1 | ||||
| Other | 1 | 0 | |||||
| Low blood pressure (hypotension) | 1 |
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1 | ||||
| Orthostatic/Postural Hypotension | 1 | 0 |
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Patient Evaluations
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- juliaR
- Sex: F
- Mouth/throat: mild
- Arms: mild
- Chest: mild
- Legs: moderate
- See profile
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- juliaR
- 0.1 mg daily
- since Apr 15, 2009
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Efficacy
Major
for Low blood pressure (hypotension)
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Side Effects
None
- See full evaluation
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- dede
- Sex: F
- Mouth/throat: moderate
- Arms: moderate
- Chest: mild
- Legs: severe
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- dede
- 0.1 mg all the time (24/7)
- since Jul 16, 2009
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Efficacy
Moderate
for Support another treatment
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Side Effects
None
- Advice/Tips For some people it works well. As for me i just simply don't sleep well at all. See full evaluation
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Report created on November 23, 2009.