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That's very interesting! Like Scarlett, I can't tolerate narcotics at all. I did fine with Tylenol/ibuprofen after my c section, which luckily has been my only surgery, but I did rest with the baby and let my mom bring me soup and toast. I also meditate, and I think that helped me not freak out when it started hurting some.I thought this article about how German doctors have a different approach to pain management ("pain is part of life"), and don't prescribe opioids after hysterectomies was eye-opening:
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/27/opinion/sunday/surgery-germany-vicodin.html
Because it's really the fear or dread of pain that's the worst part, isn't it? I don't know, I haven't felt pain like I've seen people experience, just my arthritis, so it's easy for me to say, I expect
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Yes, it is a redhead thing, there's a gene for that! Be careful with anesthesia, as sometimes redheads with the pain thing also have early resistance and can quickly become oversedated. Many anesthesiologists are extra careful with redheads. Even the 'caines, like for dental work, and epidurals may work unevenly.I think people do need to realize that just as reactions to pain medications can differ, people's perception of pain can differ.
I'm fairly tough. I've had 3 home births, and a partially unmedicated c-section. I'm not a wuss. But the idea of a few tylenol or advil being enough for post surgical pain is laughable to me. My mother, yes, that would work. Me? Nope. Wouldn't touch it. I am not 100 percent sure tylenol even does anything for me. Advil does, but not enough to cover surgical pain, depending on the surgery.
Now, I've been told that a sensitivity to pain is a redhead thing, maybe it is. And I do know I metabolize many pain meds much faster than normal, as does my father. My mother is the opposite. But yeah, some of us really do feel enough pain to justify a few codeine or vicodin.
Last time I was given nucynta, which I think is less addictive supposedly? It worked pretty well though.
Edit: I see this was already discussed! I should read before yapping! :)
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Come on, don't judge and gloat. You haven't walked in his shoes.I am not sure. It is really hard to say. I feel like my dh is MUCH more physically disabled than him......but my dh powers through where as this other person seems to give in to it.
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Some people become addicted, and don't feel normal unless they have the drug. Your husband is one of the lucky ones who has taken them without incident.They say that with more than 3 weeks use you are at great risk of becoming addicted. I really cannot even comprehend that...I have seen dh through 4 or surgeries that required opioids....but he weans himself off asap because he HATES the way they make him feel. My understanding is that some people LIKE the way they make them feel.
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And subutex is actually a pain medication, so can help in that way, too.Around here, he could seek help via subutex clinic. I don't mean he would get the medications for his pain, but the idea is subutex would stabilize the addiction to opiods component legally. If his area has lots of addicts, I imagine it also has clinic(s).
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No I didn't mean your boys, I mean anyone could break in, a friend of yours or your sons could be curious, a plumber unclogging the drain... These things are like bombs. It's a disgrace of our health care system and its dependence on pharmaceuticals.Well, if you are suggesting our boys would steal drugs from us and sell on the streets. No. I am positive that would not happen, not with the current way they are living. My brother? yes. I think he would steal from me with no conscience at all.
We are very open about all of this stuff and I in fact read all of the texts about person in detox to my ds17.
"For the CDC study, scientists analyzed prescription data for almost 1.3 million non-cancer patients who were prescribed opioids for the first time between 2006 to 2015. What they found was disturbing: People who had a one-day prescription of opioids had a 6 percent chance of being on the drug a year later, those who took opioids for 12 days had an almost 25 percent chance of still being on the drug a year later, and those with a monthlong prescription had a worrisome 30 percent chance of continuing to be on prescription opioids a year later.
Patients in the study were only meant to be on opioids for the short-term and suffered from things like pain from surgery, fractures, or headaches—but they ended up seemingly forming a long-term dependence..."
https://www.self.com/story/how-to-avoid-opioid-addiction-when-youre-prescribed-pain-medication
Edit: forgot to post link
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Does he have constipation problems?
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I think of it as storing vials filled with wads of $20 bills (or poison darts) and store accordingly.This thought has crossed my mind.....but honestly the two boys we have..... I would be shocked if it ever crossed their mind to take these drugs. I need to talk to dh about how we store them. We are careful when we have workers...and heaven forbid my brother came to visit they would be taken from the house....
I hate to sound so naive...God I hate drugs.
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I have a sticker on my car that says Take Me To (Local) Hospital. Luckily I don't know if it works.
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Lock them up with teens in the house, please. Or throw them out.Ugh I feel sick. And soooooo thankful that my dh doesn't handle opioids well.....he has several chronic conditions that have allowed him to be prescribed opioids over the years, but we just sort of stock pile them just in case he needs them. He rarely takes them. So glad he never got addicted.
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Yes, it is happening. :( And thus the heroin epidemic has been spawned, and the epidemic of deaths from overdoses of pills is spreading.
I wish your friend the best. If you live in a medical marijuana state, he may want to consider using it instead of or in adjunct with the narcotics.
Edit: saw your update. If he's mentioned the word heroin, tbh I would be scared. There are new meds that help break the narcotic cycle that are better than methadone. And he needs therapy/talk/outpatient rehab as well after the short term detox. I'm not a fan of AA or Narcotics Anon, but something.
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QFTI wonder if they're looking at the one-stop model CVS is trying to incorporate. Doctor, pharmacy- RX and OTC, all of it in one location and cut out the middle man.
I do think it's a terrible idea overall for companies to have employees private health data, but that ship has sailed with company managed insurance plans. HIPPAA is a sham- there's no privacy on this stuff anymore. Especially once employees rolled over and handed their FitBit data over to their company to save $40 a month on premiums. I don't see how it could be any worse with these players in it, but maybe I'll be surprised.
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Carbohydrates are the body's main fuel source. For healthy people without diabetes or insulin issues, whole grain foods and starchy vegetables, fruits, etc are healthy. Dh and I have been vegan for more than ten years, and those are our staples, tbh. :)
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Yes, thank you, slaughterhouses, for spraying the liquified blood and feces onto my spinach.Being vegan doesn't help you - Carlos was cooking beans, and people seem to get sick (bacteria caused illness, I mean) from produce in this country as much as from animal products. :( As ktgrok said, factory farming causes a lot of these problems.
It sure is easier in my kitchen since we don't have animal products, though. We are careful about beans since they cool down so slowly, and with cooked rice because there is a weird bacteria that can grow in it that can make you very sick.
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There's bacteria on everything, even your clean pots, even the cookie sheet a PP uses to spread her chili on to cool it.Can anybody enlighten me about the source of bacteria in thoroughly cooked , covered, food in my kitchen on timescales of hours?
If I have a pot of, say, mashed potatoes or chilli with a lid sitting on my counter, from what source do harmful bacteria come and enter this pot?
This is a completely different scenario from unrefrigerated raw foods that can already be bacterially contaminated when you buy them, and where refrigeration inhibits the increase of bacterial count. Or from a potluck where strangers have access to foods and can contaminate them with bacteria they carry on their unwashed hands.
So if something sits out at room temp, there is time and ripe conditions for the few bacteria to multiply into enough that could affect you if eaten.
I've never heard of these flash cooling methods in my life. Sometimes I'm so glad to be vegan.
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Hmm, this is interesting stuff. The stock market took a hit that is said to be related to this news.
Amazon is getting its fingers in so many pies, at some point isn't the M word (monopoly...) going to be brought up?
They'll probably do a far better job for far less $. Amazonacare 2019!
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Healthier and costlier soy sauce
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OooOoo what did you make? My mom knit babies beautiful blankets, booties, hats, sweaters. Handmade baby stuff is extra special.Much of what my sister received was either custom made, or even....hand made. As was my gift to my sister.
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Pharmacists are not trained in patient care or IM injections. I assume that the pharmacy probably has a training course for them.
Once I was waiting for meds in a Walgreen's and saw (HEARD) the pharmacist give a very elderly wheelchair-bound woman a flu shot. He hit the bone, as she had little muscle in her upper arm, and he used a standard 1.5" needle. She cried.
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There are new recommendations from the ACOG in the US now regarding paps. If she's never had a suspicious pap, it's now every 3-5 years, depending upon age. They still want women to get annual exams and some deny birth control refills if the exam's been over a year. Really all that's needed to refill BC pills is a quick blood pressure check.I do vaguely remember a check for descended testicles when DS5 was a baby. He was fine and that was that. I honestly can't recall any sort of quick visual check like you describe as young kids though. I know I have been ASKED, as the parent, if there were concerns. And I am not sure I would automatically call a quick check like you describe "creepy." But....a GOWN? The idea of a 5yr old, a 10 yr old needing a GOWN....for a well check visit....I do kinda find that creepy.
In the US, I think pap smears are done more often due to BCP regulations. It's considered an annual thing and with most insurances, a BCP refill can't be hand without it. For myself, no BCP, so I dont' think I have had one since DS5 was born. I should probably go, but there's no doc here I am comfortable with and really, it takes months just to get a sitter to have a tooth fixed. A sitter so I can sit in the stirrups....yeah no thanks.
Mammogram recommendations are changing in the US too, though.....I don't know what the current ones are.
Aren't a pelvic exam and a pap smear the same thing?
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Please be quiet, spy car. You are coming off as a creep, whether you know it or mean to or not. A creep who wants to listen to women talk about rape and then shame them for supporting a fabulous judge who successfully sent this pedophile mass rapist to prison.
Stop.beating.a.dead.horse.
You.have.made.your.point.
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Stay home one more day; be kind to yourself and your coworkers ;)Thanks for the kind thoughts.
Better today. Mostly weak. Haven't taken any OTC stuff today. No fever. I was miserable a couple of days ago.
I have a long work related training tomorrow. I'll make a decision in the morning about attending. If I go I'll sit in the back and stay away from people. I'm not sure though. Right now I'm exhausted walking across the room.
Dh and younger ds got the vaccine in December. I got it in October. Dh thinks the vaccine was reformulated before he got it. So far dh and younger ds are not ill. My other dc are away at school.
This is my first experience with tamiflu and I'd say it really works.
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We need to tell our daughters, especially the ones in uni, to #watchoutforeachother .
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"EAST LANSING, MI - Cries of "one, two, three, four, kick the board out the door" and "go green, go white, do what's right" rang through the streets of East Lansing Friday night as hundreds rallied in support of sexual assault survivors, calling for change in Michigan State University's handing of sexual assault claims.
"For many survivors of Larry Nassar's abuse, their silence came to an end this week as he was sentenced. And I hope that tonight the silence ends at Michigan State University," senior Ewurama Appiagyei-Dankah told the crowd gathered in front of "the rock," freshly-painted with the names of the 156 sexual assault survivors who testified at the disgraced former MSU doctor's sentencing earlier in the week. ..."http://www.mlive.com/news/flint/index.ssf/2018/01/times_up_msu_protesters_fill_s.html
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Opioid epidemic
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