I think the doctors don't realize how long I'm taking this. They keep renewing the prescription. I started to take it for help urinating but I didn't think it was a lifelong drug. Please give me a ball park of the usual treatment time. Thanks alot.
I have been using flomax for five yrs . How long do most people use it?
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- 29 Sep 2009 by chetlola
- Topics:
- flomax, benign prostatic hyperplasia (bph)
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m42orion7 Oct 2009
I was told it will be lifelong, as well as my newest, 6 months ago, medication of Avodart-also forever;I am 67. The 2 together are a dynamite combo, more effective than either singularly, and this I read is common. I'll have them forever, and I take the Flomax 0.4 mg 2 times a day. I do not like that, but, I guess I'll get used to it. I often forget my a.m. dose, and I do not notice the difference.
27 Apr 2010
Hello all,
I didn't quite understand this BPH until I came by this site and started looking through the web some time back.
I don't know if anyone has heard of the Nymox trial but I decided to have this procedure done instead of taking pills. I have been in it for 2 months now and it really helped for relief so far.
I am wondering if anyone else has tried it with good results?
Retired-in-NJ
17 days ago
I tried to join a Nymox 1207 trial but was ineligible because I had a TUMT procedure a couple of years ago. I don't understand why NYMOX has reported excellent (twice as good as Flomax) trial results for almost a decade and still has not been submitted to the FDA for approval. The same is true for Botox injections to the prostate. So after a decade of promising statements the only two options are still meds like Flomax and surgery. There are so many postings of people not satisfied with surgery, that meds seem the only safe option at present.
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