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Tips for getting off Flomax (tamsulosin)?
Prostate Cancer | Last Active: Jul 16 9:29am | Replies (29)Comment receiving replies
I started taking Flomax 5 days after I started proton beam therapy pain during urination. I tried going off about3 months after my treatment and the pain was still there. Kept using it for another year and tried it again and pain was gone. Haven't used it sense. Not sure if it's used for other reasons and might need long term use. For me, I believe it was for irritation of the muscles in the urethra from the radiation. Eventually the irritation went away. It's been over 5 years since my treatment and no discomfort. I get up 1 to 2 times a night.
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Oh I'm so envious. Its been 9 years since I had Proton therapy for my mild prostate cancer treatment, and I still have a basket full of issues. 1) can't get a full erection or even keep the 80% I can get; 2) can't ejaculate; 3) takes a long, long time to get to a mild orgasm; 4) painful urination most of the time; 5) have to pee about every hour to an hour and a half; 6) get up at least six time a night to pee due to the pain waking me up when my bladder fills with just 3-4 oz; 7) bladder wall has nonhealing scarring from the radiation which causes the pain; 8) and I sometimes have loss of rectum sphincter control (several "accidents" have happened over the years).
I have been to 5 different Urologist over this time; tried Hyperbaric therapy twice; several drugs; so far no solutions.
Like I said, I'm so envious.