Medication and side effects

[David]

Hello everyone has anyone out there experienced any bad side effects to any particular type of medication they recieved for a particular type of incontinence I would be very interested to know about them as I will probably be prescribed some soon after my cystoscopy.

[Alyssa]

I haven't taken any medications. But I just saw an article that came out on April 3rd about a product waiting to be approved by the FDA. Astella's Mirabegron is used to treat Overactive Bladder. Some of the side effects seen in clinical trials are increased blood pressure and increased heart beat as well as hypersensitive reactions ranging from painful rashes to anemia.
Here's the link to the article http://mobile.bloomberg.com/news/2012-04-03/astellas-overactive-bladder-drug-raises-risks-fda-staff-says.html

[David]

Thanks for the info I will check that out

[RichardJ]

I took Probanthine many years ago. It helped a little but my incontinence was due to nerve damage so it never got better. As best I can recall I had dry mouth a lot.
Rarely I would get a bladder spasm. That means I would get a tremendous urge to urinate and within 10 seconds
I would wet myself. That's when a pad came in handy.
Other than that the medication kept me from wetting myself a lot.
It kept it down to just a drip.

[Alyssa]

Yes, in the above article I was reading that often medications can cause dry mouth and that was one of the main reasons people stop using them. Not for sure if the above medication causes dry mouth or not, it's still in clinical trials so no guarantee that it will be approved by the FDA.