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Tips for getting off Flomax (tamsulosin)?
Prostate Cancer | Last Active: Mar 21 5:45pm | Replies (41)Comment receiving replies
About half way through my 25 proton therapy treatment started having trouble peeing, especially at night. My RO didn't know why it would be a problem at night by not during the day, but prescribed tamsulosin, ay first one a day but that didn't do much, but two took care of the problem. A couple weeks after therapy ended I cut back to one a day with no issues. After a couple weeks I forgot one morning and by evening was having trouble, so I'll be continuing with one for a while more. I may try to get off eventually but it's not that big a deal.
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@daveinflorida I only had 1 day of adverse side-effects during my 28 sessions of proton beam radiation treatments (during April-May 2021). On the 3rd day of treatment, I had urinary issues. My RO told me that with some men there’s an inflammatory response to the radiation, and if that inflammation is near the urethra can cause the issues that I was experiencing. He recommended that I take 2 Tamsulosin/day for the remainder of the treatments. Everything cleared up by the next day.