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.
Patient Information Publications 1 Managing Bladder Dysfunction. may empty automatically whenever it is. full, causing incontinence, or it may not. empty at all, causing retention of urine. Your doctor may prescribe diuretics. (water pills), which make the kidneys. excrete more water and which may make.