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Flomax increasing pain?

Stone Fighter #28C522Stone Fighter #28C522May 16, 2026👁️ 3.0k❤️ 165
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I've took it a ton of times, I've never had this occurrence, only feeling like I have to pee all the time. I took it about 30 minutes ago and now I have increased pressure in my pelvis and the pain that made then find the stone has greatly increased. Is there anything I can do or just rest? It's quite terrible. even my 1.3cm stone did not hurt like this but it only started like this after the dose.

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Stone Fighter #55983EStone Fighter #55983EMay 3, 2026

This is normal, I find pacing helps...if you can jiggle, jiggle maybe it will move in to a better positions...but sometimes they just suck and you need to wait it out...bad news is it can take days sometimes if its a slow mover. The you want to watch for infection and other things, like back up. I find having a uti make a stone even worse as well, so if you had one before the stone and didn't notice...you sure will once the stone starts moving. I can bare a stone without a uti..but with one ...

Stone Fighter #B1A014Stone Fighter #B1A014May 3, 2026

What's weird is I've had so many stones and taken it countless times but this has never happened for me. Just now I tried to pee and it literally doubled my heart rate from a pain spike that made ovarian torsion look more like a scrape and that's never happened with flomax for me before either if it was like that it was like that so they started it I know this time I'm dealing with pelvic inflammatory disease caused by a non STD cause as well. They checked for UTI it was not present.  I d...

Stone Fighter #17A9FEStone Fighter #17A9FEMay 3, 2026

I can’t do flomax, it makes me totally loopy not just when I take it but when I wake up too.

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