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What is InterStim Therapy?

InterStim® is FDA approved for urinary urge incontinence, nonobstructive urinary retention, and significant symptoms of urgency-frequency in patients who have failed to respond to, or could not tolerate, more conservative treatments.

Reported Purpose & Efficacy

Reasons and Efficacy
Purpose # of patients
# of patients with evaluations Efficacy
Major
Moderate
Slight
None
Can’t tell
Bladder problems 11 5 Efficacy_major Efficacy_moderate Efficacy_slight
Other 2 2 Efficacy_major
Pelvic Floor Tension Myalgia 1 0
Bowel (fecal) incontinence 1 1 Efficacy_major
ICS 1 0
Neurogenic bladder 1 0

See all 11 patients currently having InterStim Therapy

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Reported Side Effects

Side effects as an overall problem

Severe
 0
Moderate
 0
Mild
 4
None
 3

Commonly reported side effects, conditions, and hospitalizations associated with InterStim Therapy

Bladder problems 1
Pain in lower back 1
Annoying sensation 1
Bowel (fecal) incontinence 1
Slowness in bowell movements 1

Reported Adherence, Burden & Cost See details from patient evaluations ▼

Adherence

Taking treatment as prescribed

Adherence of InterStim Therapy

Always
 6 86%
Usually
 1 14%
Sometimes
 0 0%
Never
 0 0%

Burden

Difficulty being on treatment

Burden of InterStim Therapy

Very
 0 0%
Somewhat
 1 14%
A little
 3 43%
Not at all
 3 43%

Cost

Paid out of pocket

Cost of InterStim Therapy

$200+
 2 67%
$100-199
 0 0%
$50-99
 0 0%
$25-49
 0 0%
< $25
 1 33%

Report created on May 28, 2012.