I just use MSM powder that I get from Amazon. I add it to my protein drink or a smoothie, but you can add it to juice or water, and you can also get the tablets instead.
Pain Relief
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Mary Stetler
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Isn't Exedrin a combination of aspirin and tylenol?
Beth Gallagher
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From Google... "It contains a combination of acetaminophen, aspirin, and caffeine...", so yes. The newer ones contain ibuprofen and acetaminophen, but no aspirin or caffeine.
Marie Mallory
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Waiting for Oncologist appointment.
Finally got a referral to oncologist, will call tomorrow to set appointment.
Finally got a referral to oncologist, will call tomorrow to set appointment.
Faye Fox
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That is great to hear! Hopefully your doc put it in as an urgent referral. Start writing down every question or concern as you think of them. Glad you feel like posting and hope your pain is getting easier to manage. Hugs!
That is great news, @Marie Mallory , and I hope that they can now give you proper medications that will help with the pain, since they know what is causing it.
Marie Mallory
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Went tyo er 'again' today, to see if they could give me Morphine, after we left it was another script for hydrocodone.
.Rumor has it that morphine is best for cancer pain in elderly.
This is frustrating.
Not just bone cancer but bone cancer on the spine bone in at least 2 places. Survival rate is not good so why worry about addiction!!
I would think that they would take both the age and the survival rate into consideration when giving pain medication to people with cancer, I can see that with the illegal drug epidemic that they have to be careful about just handing out addictive drugs, but taking care of seniors who are in pain should be an exception to any kind of rules.Went tyo er 'again' today, to see if they could give me Morphine, after we left it was another script for hydrocodone.
Rumor has it that morphine is best for cancer pain in elderly.
This is frustrating.
Not just bone cancer but bone cancer on the spine bone in at least 2 places. Survival rate is not good so why worry about addiction!!
I am glad that they are finally getting you to see a regular oncologist, and hopefully, that will help a lot, since they can give you something for pain. I think any of it is going to mess with your head, but it is going to be a trade off between pain and having a dizzy head.
Sending hugs, and you and Jake are in our prayers.
Marie Miller
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Marie rumor and internet are not the best physicians to rely on. You have an oncology appointment which is an important step into an actual treatment plan which should replace these trips to ER/doc in the box and the resulting medication cocktail.Went tyo er 'again' today, to see if they could give me Morphine, after we left it was another script for hydrocodone.
Rumor has it that morphine is best for cancer pain in elderly.
This is frustrating.
Not just bone cancer but bone cancer on the spine bone in at least 2 places. Survival rate is not good so why worry about addiction!!
Please bring a very detailed list of medications (prescribed when and by whom, dosage, reactions) and everything else you are taking and doing. No sugar coating, no I am tough, no head in the sand! You have people who care about you! Please care about them by standing up and demanding proper treatment.
Marie Mallory
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Thank you Marie. I don't take the meds much at all, they do nothing for pain but do have side effects that make it worse to deal with.
Last night I did take a Gabapentin along with the only thing so far that stops pain for a few hours, Tylenol.
I have lots of Hydro, Ibuprofen, tramadol.Muscle relaxers ,etc, yet I only take Tylenol ,the only one that stops pain.
I went to a few docs yesterday chasing Morphine. So far no morphine.
We read that morphene is the one best for elderly, les sode efects..
Marie Mallory
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Yvonne we left message with oncologist today, Qhen he calls back we set appt.I have been to so many Urgent Care, and hospital er's ,trying to get referal to a doc.
Its a crazy medical world we live in.
Marie Mallory
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Yvonne can you or Ken combine these threads or just keep one up? We didn't realize how 2 or 3 is not a good idea,
Marie Miller
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Are you discussing this during your medical visits? Morphine has a plethora of side effects. Again, please discuss this with your medical providers. They need to justify the prescription.
Marie Mallory
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My primary care doc is a sweet lady but she too is going thru some mental issues, crying telling me her provlems. But she is ok even if a little nuts.
She finally referred me to oncologist when doc at Urgent Care called her and told her to do so.
The medical field ain't what it use to be.
I don't take pain relievers often, but that is what I now take. Apparently the two drugs complement each other, plus you don't get a high dose of either. Walmart has their own generic of it.
The times that I have taken pain relievers, whether Aspirin, Tylenol, or various prescribed pain relievers after operations and such, they never seemed to do much of anything, so I don't take them. I would probably never take Tylenol again, but I can't say that I'll never take a pain reliever. I just like to reduce the number of medications that I take, and if the things aren't going to actually relieve the pain, then I'll just say no. I did take "baby aspirin" (which should never be given to a baby, by the way) for a while when I was persuaded that it would reduce the chances of heart problems, but I later came to believe that was not true, at least in my case, since my blood is rather thin anyhow, so I don't do that anymore.
Marie Miller
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Marie, you doc’s problems have nothing to do with you. You need a physician not a friend who bills insurance to spend time with you. Time to get someone who is a medical provider?
Marie Mallory
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Marie, thanks for your concern.
As it is right now, the pickens are slim to none for 'choosing' a good doctor.
I did ok till now so didn't go to doctors other than blood work.
My primary care doc retired last year, and finding a new doc this day and time is not easy.
Marie Mallory
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Ken I can deal with pain, but this is the worse pain to deal with.
It is in my spine, leg and I can not sit on my ass since the tailbone is being eaten by the cancer.much of the end is already eat up and on xray looks like cheese.
I have every kind of opioid, buprofin,etc,etc,
Tylenol is the only thing that helps with the pain.
I'm going to pick up hydrocodone today, opioid with tylenol I think.
I completely agree with you about finding a good doctor, @Marie Mallory ! I have had the same cardiologist for almost 20 years (ever since we moved from Idaho to Alabama), and he is the BEST, but finding good PCP doctor has not been easy at all, and Bobby and I have changed several times, looking for one we like and can trust not to just be a pill pusher.
This year, our Devoted Health Medicare offered a virtual online PCP plan, and we decided to try it and see how it worked for us. We really like how good Devoted Insurance is, and so far, we like the virtual doctor, too.
We have an initial visit, than a follow up, and they sent orders to LabCorp for our lab work, which we just did yesterday. My follow up appointment is in another week.
It is a video conference, and Bobby’s lasted well over a half hour while they went over his health with him, and are now setting him up for appointments with a pulmonary doctor to check his lungs, and then probably a cardiologist for an echocardiogram; so they seem to be pretty efficient, and we can do it right from home, except for lab work or scans where you have to go to a doctors office to have it done.