Posted on 03/31/2016 6:02:17 AM PDT by Wolfie
I think you and the Government should absolutely decide who needs what. $crew the Doctors and what they think. The same goes for birth control and abortions-—right?
Having had four major lower back surgeries, morphine drips are fairly common for pain from major surgery. If they ever put that stuff in six-packs, I'm buying it!
All joking aside, I've also been given opiods after having major back surgery and never found them to be addictive myself. I typically stopped taking them after a few days at home and threw the rest away.
While they're great at relieving pain, I really didn't like the effect of my head feeling like it was floating three feet over my body and sleeping most of the time. I like to be in control of my faculties and opiods really inhibit that.
That's just me though I suppose.
I think you and the Government should absolutely decide who needs what. $crew the Doctors and what they think. The same goes for birth control and abortions-—right?
I think you and the Government should absolutely decide who needs what. $crew the Doctors and what they think. The same goes for birth control and abortions-—right?
This is common whining and they were not nurses.
I'm not saying there aren't. I'm noting that, in the article, there is no mention of alternatives. I'm still curious.
Mean while the makers of cheap Mexican Tar Heroin are smiling. More potential customers.
God only knows what they are mixing with it.
I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that I don't think the pills were the initial problem here.
I take it you’ve never had a broken bone that had to be re-set without surgery.
I certainly wouldn’t want to show up that hospital with a broken bone. Someone should give Dr. Rosenberg a badly fractured wrist, and then discuss pain management for acute pain with him.
Indeed, they seem to have it backwards. They should be limiting opioids to acute cases, and banning them for chronic conditions. A week or so of painkillers won’t cause addiction. It’s the long term use for chronic pain management that’s causing the problem.
Yes...I saw that and thought the same. Shame she has no shame.
It looks as if the PC medical community doesn’t feel your pain anymore.
Decades ago I read a science fiction novel, possibly by Heinlein, where only the elites received modern drugs for medical treatment. Common people had to content themselves with aspirin.
Seems as if we are almost there.
Perhaps I wasn’t clear, the nurses joined the discussion after the phone call.
I have a friend who is a dentist, after having some work done he prescribed me some powerful pain killers. He talked about how many phone calls they get or people who come in just hoping to get drugs.
I don’t think anyone should find this shocking, Rush did it.
I am personally acquainted with kidney stones. If I pass a few more, I can re-gravel my driveway.
I’m almost 70. I’ve had two neck fusions, rotator cuff repair, and the re-attachment of four severed tendons in my right hand. (My surgeons agree that I have an active lifestyle.) The severed tendons were, by far, the most painful. Even then, I was off the opioids within a week. I was off the painkillers, other than Tylenol, within 48 hours.
In each surgery, I was usually given a prescription for 60 opioids with two or three renewals. I do think that is over prescribing, but it is a matter of personal discipline too. Problem is, doctors prescribe a pill every four/six hours and give patients enough pills to last several weeks. Patients believe they should follow this instructions so they take the pills for weeks on end. Now we wonder why people become addicted.
Try Vitamin C ...start with 1000mg day....work up to the tolerance level. ..you’ll know...cause you won’t have a bowel problem any more...could be 4000mg day or more
They really are not nurses. Maybe one nurse in the office if he does conscious sedation.
I hear that kind of thing a lot. It’s a superiority healthcare worker thing.
I hear it mostly from the clerical and medical assistant staff.
Almost never in the ER.
Very rarely from professional staff.
I was embarrassed to try it but damn it worked.
Right. And burns. Sure, there are other options for burns. /s
If there is an attempt to "ban" opioids by the fedgov I will be right there with you.
But I don't have any problem at all with a hospital that decides to take them out of the ED.
Unless you have worked in an ED or urgent care center you have no idea how much time and money is wasted in dealing with whingeing drug seekers. And it's your money, because 80% of them are on Medicaid or subsidized Obamacare plans.
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