METHODS OF TREATING GASTROINTESTINAL AND GENITOURINARY PAIN DISORDERS USING VINLAFAXIN AND DERIVATIVES

摘要

This invention provides a method of treating functional gastrointestinal and genitourinary disorders in a mammal by administering to the mammal an effective amount of hydroxycycloalkane phenethylamine of the following structural formula (I) in which A is a moiety of the formula (II) where the dotted line represents optional unsaturation; R1 is hydrogen or alkyl; R2 is alkyl; R4 is hydrogen, alkyl, formyl, or alkanol; R5 and R6 are, independently, hydrogen, hydroxyl, alkyl, alkoxy, alkanoyloxy, cyano, nitro, alkylmercapto, amino, alkylamino, dialkylamino, alkanamido, halo, trifluoromethyl, or taken together, methylene dioxy; R7 is hydrogen or alkyl; and n is 0, 1, 2, 3, or 4, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof.