Before taking atorvastatin, 1  tell your doctor and pharmacist if you are allergic to atorvastatin, any other medications, or any of the ingredients in atorvastatin tablets. 2  Ask your pharmacist for a list of the ingredients.
Inability to Urinate Overview. When you cannot empty your bladder completely, or at all, despite an urge to urinate, you have urinary retention. To understand how urinary retention occurs, it is important to understand the basics of how urine is stored in and released from the body.
*Urinary retention facts by John P. Cunha, DO, FACOEP. 1  Urinary retention is the inability to empty the bladder. Urinary retention can be acute or chronic. Acute urinary retention is a medical emergency.  Urinary retention is most common in men in their 50s and 60s because of prostate enlargement.