I am assisting a person with cerebral palsy who is on this medication and is continuously constipated and needs PR ends in order to move there bowels.
What is the correlation between constipation while on the medication diclofenac?
Question posted by nicholascione on 8 July 2022
Last updated on 9 July 2022
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masso
9 July 2022
Constipation is a very common side effect affecting up to 13% of people being treated with this NSAID and diarrhea a common one affecting 1% to 10% of patients.
It can go either way depending on the how the metabolism of the person taking it reacts to the medication.
masso
9 July 2022
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