Recently diagnosed BPH and Tamsulosin
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Hi
Recently diagnosed with BPH - Tamsulosin working pretty well. Has anyone had side effects?
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Notes on Recently diagnosed BPH and Tamsulosin
Allondon jay79298
Posted
Jay,
If you are under 80, work and drive a lot - then IMHO you can't rely on Tamsulosin in the long run.
Depending on the size and shape of your prostate, you may need to start thinking about surgery before it gets worse or you have a retention.
Get an MRI to better assess your prostate and the probability of cancer.
You may try other alpha-blockers or Cialis but they all come with side-effects which doctors forget to mention.
Guest jay79298
Posted
I was prescribed Tamsulosin but it gave me heart palpitations so was taken off it now take Doxasozin instead. initially had hypotension with that too but meds adjusted and it has been fine since. no other side effects. can pee easier but prostate is getting bigger.
chris15677 jay79298
Posted
Geoff and Ken, thank you for your responses, so now I will cath in the morning as well as at night so residual urine isn't there for 24 hours, which may be the cause of infection. If need be, I will cath at 5pm as well but first I must experiment further because I really do not want surgery at my age.
My residual is usually 100 m, sometimes more sometimes less but I don't think that matters.
I have a few days of A/B to do and then I'll see how things pan out.
Best,
Chris.