Flomax For Women?

I heard a urologist saying he uses this to increase urine output in women. Is this something you have seen?

He described a couple of patients who had swollen legs and abdomen, nausea, very little urine output, non-specific, odd-sounding abdominal pains intermittently. He also puts these folks on macrodantin low dose nightly for a couple of weeks, keeps up with their BUN and creatinine, and checks them for various causes of obstruction of urine outflow. Hard to tell whether they have obstructive uropathy or renal failure.

Interesting to hear him discuss it. Anyone familiar with this?

I guess this is an off label use for Flomax?
I have only seen it once or twice. I wasn't sure of the reason except that I thought that the woman had some obstruction or orther. I haven't seen it in a long time.

I've never seen it given to women before.

I do medical transcription for a urology practice and they occasionally prescribe Flomax to women to help with renal calculi passage.

I am a female and every time I pass a kidney stone I get a months supply of it... maybe it is just my urologist, but when I questioned him about it the first time, he said it is his standard practice.

Female here. I had some adhesions due to radiation and was given Flomax to try to increase output - I was down to a dribble.Didn't work for me though. I had to be cathed and keep a cath while the adhesion area healed.

Thanks for the info. Interesting and informative. Multiple stones, YOUCH! Did the Flomax help ease them out?

We have a urologist who has prescribed it for women a number of times.It's an alpha agonist and relaxes the detrusor muscle, enabling them to urinate more easily.

Quote from bollweevilI heard a urologist saying he uses this to increase urine output in women. Is this something you have seen?He described a couple of patients who had swollen legs and abdomen, nausea, very little urine output, non-specific, odd-sounding abdominal pains intermittently. He also puts these folks on macrodantin low dose nightly for a couple of weeks, keeps up with their BUN and creatinine, and checks them for various causes of obstruction of urine outflow. Hard to tell whether they have obstructive uropathy or renal failure. Interesting to hear him discuss it. Anyone familiar with this?I guess this is an off label use for Flomax?

I have seen it prescribed for a woman once. I don't remember why but I did question the doctor!

Wow Evelyn, urinary frequency and working as a nurse seem incompatible, any tips you could share? Patients have asked me what they can do about their frequency, so I am wondering what you recommend.Thanks for giving a full description of how flomax works on the bladder neck, I was aware that this is the reason for giving it to both men and women and I have seen it work successfully on a couple of women. regardsdishes

I had a female patient who was on Flomax for a kidney problem.

I am guessing here but is this a brand name for Tamslosin? The hospital I am working in at the moment prescribes it all the time for renal calculi. In another place I saw it prescribed for 2 women who had MS which was causing urinary retention and they had quite bad spasms in their hands and were unable to straight cath themselves. It worked quite well for one and no real change for the other woman