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Ness:
ordinary paracetamol... bleh...
I'm another arthritis sufferer - I absolutely detest taking prednisone, on high doses it makes me high (can't stand feeling like that!), on low dosed it makes me cranky and aggressive... I live on panadeine - a combination of paracetamol and codeine phosphate - I've got all the different brands sussed out and I know exactly how much codeine is in each!
the current drug of choice is mersyndol (tension headaches for over a month) - parecetamol, codeine phosphate and doxylamine succinate... leaves me very happily dozy and actually ensures that I get a good night's sleep! and it's available without a prescription - some days I worry that I could become seriously addicted to sedatives!
Ness
laeshanin:
Z.Z. - Dihydrocodeine sends you off anyway. It is an opiate and addictive. In fact, in this country it has only just been licensed for sale over the counter but I can't recall what it retails as. Might be worth checking with the quack about any counterindications with current meds you're taking and also if there are any real issues for folk with thyroidal probs.
My poor mum has to have paracetamol for her arthritis as she takes Warferin, but has a thyroid problem too. I believe she was on something stronger before the DVT set in so I'll ask and see if she remembers the name of the drugs.
Kitiara:
Quote from: laeshanin on 2005 September 09, 20:09:10
Ugh, gallstones... Had those and they were the worst pain I've ever had to endure. I had dihydocodeine, which is a lovely, spacey drug that sends you off into la-la-land. Unfortunately, when I had mine out they didn't use keyhole surgery and even now I look like the surgeons used a wood chisel and hammer to get in there and do the removal. ;D
Z.Z. - acupuncture is good, no doubt about that. I know that some G.P.'s refer their patients and it can be available on the NHS in some areas. I take it you don't live in one of those though?
Had gallstones too, in fact they are probably still lurking about. When diagnosed I was about 6 weeks pregnant (3 1/2 years ago). I had to have dietary treatment only. Since then, nothing else has been done. I have no insurance (can't afford it) but can't get gov't insurance (apparently we make too much for medicaid, though I don't see how). I still sometimes have bouts of extreme pain and nausea. When they come about I take a few tylenol and a couple of OTC sleeping pills and hope that when I wake up the pain will have reduced to tolerable. Most of the time it does.
ZephyrZodiac:
Quote from: laeshanin on 2005 September 11, 15:31:01
Z.Z. - Dihydrocodeine sends you off anyway. It is an opiate and addictive. In fact, in this country it has only just been licensed for sale over the counter but I can't recall what it retails as. Might be worth checking with the quack about any counterindications with current meds you're taking and also if there are any real issues for folk with thyroidal probs.
My poor mum has to have paracetamol for her arthritis as she takes Warferin, but has a thyroid problem too. I believe she was on something stronger before the DVT set in so I'll ask and see if she remembers the name of the drugs.
Thanks laeshanin, I know that codeine is an opiate - back in the 60's it was banned because kids were putting it in Coca Cola (I think) and for a long time I don't think you could get it on presecripton either. I think they've had to allow it back becaue of the issues with Aspirin and Ibuprofen, and also the higher doses of paracetomol (which I understand is why Co-proxamol is not longer available) and quite frankly why people who really need a powerful pain-killer should be unable to get it because of people who don't bother to read the instructionson the packet is beyond me!
Again, Anti-inflammatories like Voltarol Retard work wonders for me, but my doctors will only prescribe them in short bursts, not all the time, because they too have issues for people with stomach problems!
Half the problem anyway is that my GP's don't really believe I have arthritis, they say aches and pains are common with people with thyroid problems and don't mean anything! In fact, the hospital x-rayed my neck when they were trying to find out what was wrong with my hand, and found arthritis there - and that is one of the places I get a lot of pain! But what can you expect from GP's who, when you visit them because you feel ill, inform you that you are depressed! It's the easy way out, she's a woman, she's in a stressful job (which I was) therefore she's depressed! And once they've made their wonderful, insightful diagnosis, they can't be shifted from it! Every time I go, I'm asked to try some new anti-depressant as if I'm some kind of guinea-pig - they don't even know how much harm anti-depressants actually do to thyroid patients!
Danni:
Kitiara, you can actually sleep through a gallstone attack? Wow! Good for you!
I found lying in a bath as hot as I could tolerate helped a little with the pain, but there were a few times I went to A&E soaking wet because I'd tried to deal with it myself and failed. Tramadol is also an opiate, which is why it makes me feel high (oh, and I sometimes get visual hallucinations from it, but am that high I don't care... as for aural hallucinations, I get to live with them without medication... what fun!). Morphine was great, though it did send me straight to sleep.
I have a few 60mg (I think) codiene tablets, and was allowed to take them with two paracetamol after my gallstone op. Codiene also never did anything to me, but helped a little with the post-op pain.
Co-proxamol is being withdrawn because the combination of paracetamol and the other thingie that's in it is so dangerous in overdose, more so than paracetamol alone, and can be fatal if taken with alcohol. Paracetamol requires normally at least 30-32 tablets to be especially harmful (though it can cause liver damage from around 10) whereas co-proxamol is fatal with just 8-10. I've got to stop looking up toxicology sites :P
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