FLOMAX Reviews (TAMSULOSIN HYDROCHLORIDE)Average Rating: 2.2 (614 Ratings)Filter ResultsCompare FLOMAX with similar:
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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR FLOMAX | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 1 | Prostate | Feeling like passing out.rapid heart rate,intermittently | Need to research heart effects | M | 93 | 14 days 0.4mg 1X day | 1/22/2013 | 1 | Weak flow | Crazy dreams unable to sleep high heart rate hallucinations unstable to walks | Do not take!!!!! | M | 91 | 3 days 1X day | 2/6/2015 | 1 | Prostate Enlargement | Extreme morning fatigue. Severe lower back ache. Poor balance. Dry mouth and stuffy nose. Heavy legs feel like Concrete. | Forgot to take one night and all side effects disappeared. Never had any of these problems before now. My physician tried to figure out what was wrong. Now That I forgot to Take, we know.. | M | 90 | 60 days .4mg x2 | 5/25/2020 | 1 | BPH | constant urinating - every 10-20 minutes, including through the night. incontinence. | Caused *extreme* muscular weakness and dizziness - fell 4 times during last month on this med- unusual for me and dangerous. Going off of flomax slowly now under doctor's supervision - was on .8 mg. Did NOT help with incontinence. Doc is trying me on enablex now. | M | 90 | 2 months | 7/18/2006 | 1 | getting up to pee at night | My father took this drug while hospitalized a few years earlier & had vivid realistic sometimes fightening dreams. Most recently, last summer he began taking it again & began having hallucinations after taking for 4 days. He stopped taking but a couple of weeks later "had a bad dream" and ended up being taken to the hospital after a violent episode. Doc diagnosed him as having dementia, but has been fine since getting out of the hospital almost 8 months ago. The only time he was messed up was within the first few weeks of taking flowmax. | M | 89 | 4 days | 4/23/2012 | 1 | Retention urine,blood in bladde | Have bleeding in bladder, the clot worms are sometimes 2 and 3 inchs long,and plug a catheter, cath has to be removed wash clot out reinsert, repete this until bladder clear and empty pf urine, flomax softens clots,cause’s a jelly,blocking mass, which. must be removed prior to starting irreregation of the bladder, man in Italy, died from over irregation bladder liner seprated from bladder, SIGN’S OF BLEEDING DON’T TAKE FLOMAX | FLOMAX is a dangous drug should only be prescribed by competent urologist. As I found out the hard way, not all Doctors are smsrt enough to prescribe FLOMAX | M | 86 | 7 days .047 1X day | 8/17/2023 | 3 | Frequent night urination | I wanted to ask anyone if they have had this type of experience: My dad (mid 80's) was on Flomax for some time and it worked great to keep him from getting up all night long. He was recently hospitalized and had trouble voiding at the time. Then it appeared that his usual pattern for voiding reversed: he would not go all day and get up every night. Any insight into why this may have happened or what could be done to reverse this change? Changing his pill time has not helped. Thank you so much. | M | 85 | 1X day | 11/8/2011 | 4 | incontinence | None that I could notice, except going for two hours without a bathroom break, instead of 30 minutes (maybe). After radiation for prostate cancer. I would prefer 8 hours, for sleep. | M | 84 | 1 years | 8/13/2007 | 1 | BPH, failure to empty bladder, etc | After two days, every time I pee'd, I'd also pooh. Soiled several shorts per day. Things got worse and I quit using it. Loss of bowel control still lingers after more than a year. | Reading the comments of others seems to indicate Flomax is like most prostate symptom-control meds. Maybe this will encourage others to report with similar embarrassing side effects. | M | 83 | 4 days | 2/11/2007 | 4 | Bog problems | Sore muscles | M | 82 | 6 years 0.4 mg 1X day | 7/14/2020 | 1 | BPH | Episode of multiple bleeds in the brain. Hospitalized in semi-comatose condition and having seizures. During recovery in hospital medication resumed and had an additional bleed in the brain after taking it for two days. | M | 82 | 14 days | 11/7/2005 | 4 | Slow release of urine | Loss of ejaculate, but not organism. Did not help much in lessening my visits to the toilet. | M | 81 | 30 days | 5/6/2005 | 1 | Enlarged prostate | Horrible drug...Debilitating, energy-draining side effects... nearly fainted several times... lowered my heart rate to low forties, lowered blood pressure too far...Completely crippling. You won't have much of a life if you take this drug... | M | 81 | 40 days 0.08 mg 1X day | 2/20/2021 | 3 | urgency | none | it did all right to begin with, but lately it doesn't seem to help much. Urgency is there and some loss of control. | M | 80 | 9 months | 11/16/2006 | 1 | Prostate | Fainting, Dizziness, Leg Cramps, BP Unstable, Confusion, and Stomach Pain This product is potentially deadly. | M | 80 | 3 months 10 | 6/11/2012 | 4 | prescribed by MD | requires 2 capsules per day to work for me | Very happy with it | M | 78 | 1 years | 12/30/2003 | 4 | BPH pre and post TURP | Occasional light head, different bowel movement, Overall not a lot of side effects | Helped urine flow prior to TURP surgery To the point that I almost canceled the TURP surgery but I decided to go forward with the surgery and not depend on Flomax the rest of my life. I know Flomax is not for everyone, but it certainly worked for me | M | 78 | 45 days 0.4 1X day | 11/15/2021 | 2 | Poor urinary flow | Extreme dizziness when getting up from recumbent or sitting position. Tiredness. Poor sexual performance. | These are troublesome and probably dangerous effects as a fall could result. Capsules cannot be split to reduce the dose. Wonder if anyone has tried an every other day, or every third day dosage scheme. Will have to discontinue the medication unless I find a way to deal with these pesky side effects. Ask you doctor if this medicine is right for you? Not really. The doctor really does not know except what the pharma rep tells him. I'd rather ask a real expert, that is a patient. | M | 78 | 21 days 0.4 mg 1X day | 12/20/2016 | 1 | post prostate cancer treatment | severe lower back pain | M | 78 | 30 days .4mg 1X day | 11/2/2021 | 4 | Frequent night time urination | None | M | 77 | 4 years | 10/19/2008 |
FLOMAX (TAMSULOSIN HYDROCHLORIDE): Tamsulosin is used by men to treat the symptoms of an enlarged prostate (benign prostatic hyperplasia-BPH). It does not shrink the prostate, but it works by relaxing the muscles in the prostate and the bladder. This helps to relieve symptoms of BPH such as difficulty in beginning the flow of urine, weak stream, and the need to urinate often or urgently (including during the middle of the night). Tamsulosin belongs to a class of drugs known as alpha blockers. Do not use this medication to treat high blood pressure. FDA Approval Date: 1997-04-15 (Sources: U.S. Centers for Medicare Services, FDA)