Why in the world does nifedipine IR even exist?

[TianjinNVhai]

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It’s pretty much contraindicated in ALL pts, why does this drug even exist?

 

[JustFillIt]

Who knows.

 

[bacillus1]

-Compounding for nifedipine ointment for anal fissures
-Achalasia

 

[BidingMyTime]

Because back in the day when it first came out, everybody was on it. People used it when their blood pressure rose, they used it around the clock scheduled, they used it like candy. People were instructed to poke a hole in the capsule and use it sublingually. Just like now every other person is on an SSRI, back then, every other person was on nifedpine IR. Then around 2000, it came out that this was a bad idea and leading to deaths, so now nobody uses nifedipine IR. Maybe it was hard for the drug companies to accept that the glory days of nifedipine IR were gone, and now there are still a few hold-outs (and probably some old should have retired 20 years ago dr who still prescribes it.)

 

[Rainbowdash]

Some ob's still prescribe it for premature contractions

 

[Dred Pirate]

Some ob's still prescribe it for premature contractions

it is restricted to tocolytic therapy at my hospital,

 

[RxPreceptor]

because I've got one anal MD in the area who has one patient using a QPM dose of the ER and a QAM dose of the IR...><

 

[Selladore]

We still use it for autonomic dysreflexia