I'm at that age where I get to go through the joy of a prostate exam yearly. I was watching tv the other night and saw a commercial for a new drug called "Flomax". It is supposed to shrink your prostate so you can have better urine flow. One of the side effects was post nasal drip. If you read a decongetant's box, it tells you not to take it because it can cause prostate swelling, so the decongestant dries your nose, but limits your fluid output, while the other frees up your fluid output and causes post nasal drip. I just wondered, what's the connection between the 2? Made be go hmmmm....
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Flomax is not new and I have been taking it for several years to relieve symptoms and lower my blood pressure.
The reason you should not take decongestents if you have an enlarged prostate is because decongestents can actually sewll the prostate and cause urinary retention.
I have many patients on Flomax and none of them has nasal congestion because of it.
The FDA requires that anything found in the control group be listed in the possible side effect profile of every drug it approves.
When a physician prescribes a drug they should tell you of potential side effects as well as benefit vs risk of the drug.
It also reduces your ejaculate considerabally and THAT n=bothers more of my patients than nasal congestion.
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