Oxycontin and the elderly
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Due to my involvement with homeless, addicted, and elderly people I am also involved with a people that have residency in subsized apartments. One of the women I have gotten to know has some serious pain issues and has had 17 surgeries. She is going to one of the major hospitals in Cleveland Oh. for her PM. Last friday she picked up her medications and her pack back, straped to her wheelchair, was stolen along her wallet and ID's. She called the Dr. after reporting the theft to the police.
Pain management is complicated and knowing the reason why your father is taking the meds he is prescribed as well as the long-term goals and effects seems like something you have a right to ask about.
Here are a few links:
http://www.eorthopod.com/content/pain-management-medications
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.
m not going back on the percs- just tapering from the morph right now and will be done with this sh*$ after that.
So the question is- is it all about the same as far as w/d time or are some more difficult and last longer? I know when I've taken vic's- they were (for me), like taking an advil. So weak- I guess because my DOC was so much stronger and my tolerance was higher than many peoples. But I'm just curious if ther's some sort of order (difficult to most difficult)?
Hi. 5'10" Gent, and brand spankin newbie to this site. i just turned 56 in April. In my journal August. 12, 2013, I recorded wgt. 247.5 lb, BP 157/101, severe depression & anxiety with heaart palpitations and mid-nightime panic attacks. Also using CPAP setting of 14cm for severe sleep apnea, and suffered almost daily migraines. Plus my triglicerides were, as my dr put it, "through the roof!
A home health nurse visited for 2 weeks and stopped. She was given the Diltiazem, Lasix and Seroquel while in the hospital and has been on them about 2 months. Her doctor wants her to stay on the Seroquel indefinitely and hasn't really been concerned about monitoring her. I plan to take her to another doctor soon.
If a person is young (ish) and otherwise healthy and gets a UTI, that person will feel the normal symptoms of it, but someone who is elderly (although someone does not necessarily have to be 'elderly' to have Alzheimers), and suffers from dementia or Alzheimers, will have a much different experience.
I went through this with my mother and currently, my MIL, and it is absolutely true.
Below is a short excerpt taken from the link I will share below...
00am. I never heard of a person sleeping like this, he will get up and go to the bath room but go right back to bed. He has mild parkinson's disease, and sick sinus syndrome with a pacemaker, mild to moderate dementia, and other than that no other problems. No renal failure.
The hospital staff said I neede to stop all blood thinnig drugs (aspirin, fish oil, advil, etc) but did not say anything about pain mends (Oxycontin 4mg 2x day and Norco for the breakthrough pain (10 - 50 mg per day depending) Can I take the pain meds right up to the surgery?
When Purdue Pharma reformulated the pill and renamed it Oxycontin OP, that extended the patent on Oxycontin. Purdue Pharma won the lawsuit and all the generic manufacturers that were producing Oxycontin had to exit the market. A similar scenario happened with Opana ER. Endo Pharmaceuticals reformulated Opana ER so that it couldn't be crushed and snorted. When they did that, it extended their patent for at least another 10 years.
Hi everyone,
i am so done with being handcuffed to my Rx's and being handcuffed because of because of being on my meds..
I suffered a instant brain anuerism some years ago. Was life flighted to Stanford, had emergency brain surgery and survived, which I later was told is a miracle, since most people bleed out in 4 mins. Unfortuntley the outcome was nerve damage which left me in extreme pain.
Needless to say I was referred to a pain mgmt. Doc.
m right and these headaches are being caused by the analgesics the only solution I see here is to somehow wean totally off the oxycontin. The bone and muscle pain is unbearable and I cannot walk without the oxycontin but the headaches incapacitate me too. I don't want to simply exist. I want to participate in life.
t explain how to go about that. My husband cut the oxycontin in half and I took that once at night and once in the morning for 3 days. When I thought about the next steps to get off the oxycodone, I thought to call the pharmacy for advice. I found out that I was on a 20mg time release oxycontin, and that cutting it in half meant I was cutting through the time release shell, and was just getting a burst of the oxycontin. Well, I wasn't going back there, so I just didn't take anymore.
s some advice. You should be taking the OxyContin for persistent pain and the Percocet for breakthrough pain. Since OxyContin is a 12 hour extended-release formulation of oxycodone it can probably be reduced to just twice daily initially since there's only 24 hours in one day. Of course Percocet is an immediate release formulation of oxycodone and thus has a shorter half-life than the OxyContin. Detoxification from oxycodone depends on your level of pain and your desire to stop taking it.
He is unaware of what real withdrawal is like and reading here about the vomiting and stress to the body, his heart cannot take it. We are very scared and do not know what to do with him. He will not do treatment in a center. What are our options? His physician has been his doctor for over 50 years and has given him is perscription and is too old and disengaged to try to help.
Suggestions?? Much appreciated.
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