A Comparison of Analgesic İmpacts of Piroxicam and Diclofenac Sodium in the Treatment of Primary Dysmenorrhea

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2014-07-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: Female

Summary

• Currently, nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drugs are widely used by emergency physicians in Turkey for the treatment of patients with Primary Dysmenorrhea.

• The objective of the study is compare intramuscular Diclofenac sodium and piroxicam's pain reduction dysmenorrhea in emergency department (ED) adults.

• The investigators second aim was to compare recurrent dysmenorrhea pain within 24 hours after discharge.

• Phase: Phase 4
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Pamukkale University
• Treatments: Analgesics; Diclofenac; Pharmaceutical Solutions; Piroxicam

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• patients were eligible for inclusion if they were aged 18 years or older, 45 years or younger

• had Primary Dysmenorrhea

• VAS (visual analog scale) score >5.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Patients with severe liver, kidney and heart failure

• After the use of aspirin or other nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drugs, asthma, nasal polyps, angioedema and urticaria to be seen

• To have active peptic ulcer bleeding or perforation

• Have a history of upper gastrointestinal disease

• The presence of Phenylketonuria disease

• To be Pregnancy and breast-feeding

• To be Asthma patients

• Have received analgesics in the last 4 hours

• Patients of childbearing age who are not using a birth control method.

• The patient who using digoxin, lithium, furosemide and other diuretics, acetylsalicylic acid and anticoagulant coumadin

• Physical examination and suspected acute abdomen.