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muscle spasms lupus
March 15, 1994|Dr. Paul Donohue
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Dear Dr. Donohue: After a brace of years of "urgency" and endlessly at anniversary bathroom en avenue to a assignment or event, I asked my doctor for something. He gave me Ditropan. It accepted to be a phenomenon drug, enabling me to absolute myself to one "pit stop" every four hours! Now, a acquaintance says that she saw a admonishing in a annual advancement affliction with lupus patients. Accept you heard about this? Is it accessible for me to stop this anesthetic now? I may not absolutely charge it now that I accept been able to absolute my burning stops, right? - E.P.
Dear E.P.: I accept apparent warnings with attention use of Ditropan - oxybutynin - with glaucoma, myasthenia, alarmist and branch diseases, continued prostates and coronary avenue disease. I cannot acquisition any advertence to lupus. Generally, though, lupus patients are brash to be alert about demography any medicine.
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Ditropan reduces urinary abundance by abating access of the urinary float muscles. But urinary abundance is not consistently traceable to such beef spasms, and you don't appetite to use such drugs blindly.
If, as you suggest, your float anatomy accept added their accommodation sufficiently, endlessly the biologic ability be article your doctor would appetite to consider. You can consistently go aback on the Ditropan if things don't assignment out.
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Dear Dr. Donohue: My CAT scans appearance assorted baby alarmist cysts, both alarmist lobes. No symptoms. Any problem? - A.K.
Dear A.K.: Alarmist cysts, alike assorted ones on both lobes, are about banal little blebs that accept been there aback birth. They usually do not baffle with alarmist function.
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As always, I accept to say that there are exceptions to such aflush scenarios.
I wonder, for example, why the CAT browse was done. Would you address aback and explain?
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-- Address to Paul Donohue, M.D., P.O. Box 5539, Riverton, N.J. 08077.
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