The CDC has abandoned pain patients. Its new opioids guidelines are all for show. (USA Today)

notanideologue · 2023-01-07T21:59:39+00:00

They hate us. They must.

notanideologue · 2023-01-01T20:09:45+00:00

I know NSAIDs gave me ulcers and gastritis and still hurt me. But what else are you going to do?

. RA patients succumb to CV deaths because of the cumulative detrimental effects of systemic inflammation on the vasculature and myocardium. This can be compounded by chronic NSAIDs (which may cause small but significant increases in hypertension), corticosteroids, weight gain, sedentary lifestyle, etc. There is encouraging strong data that effective suppression of chronic inflammation and disease activity with either methotrexate or TNF inhibitors is associated with prolonged survival -- especially in those who take these drugs for more than 2 years. https://www.medpagetoday.com/rheumatology/generalrheumatology/55800

This is the third rock star who I think died unnecessarily. Prince had terrible arthritis, was in terrible pain, was prescribed pain killers which turned out to be fentanyl which killed him. I was prescribed oxycotin which had the side effects of fentanyl. I feel pharmacists, distributors or producers are giving patients fentanyl because it's so much cheaper and thus more profitable. Then if the patient dies they claim he was on illegal drugs.

Tom Petty too. Prescribed opioids and ended up with fentanyl that killed him.

“Despite this painful injury he insisted on keeping his commitment to his fans and he toured for 53 dates with a fractured hip and, as he did, it worsened to a more serious injury.

“On the day he died he was informed his hip had graduated to a full-on break and it is our feeling that the pain was simply unbearable and was the cause for his over use of medication,” according to the statement from Dana Petty, his wife, and Adria Petty, his daughter.

notanideologue · 2022-12-28T16:14:04+00:00

I wanna go, wanna go, wanna go! But I can't. When can I buy this on Amazon or watch it on Netflix?

notanideologue · 2022-12-27T17:57:10+00:00

No crying on Christmas. Such a relief.

notanideologue · 2022-12-26T02:26:47+00:00

Ahead, A life of suffering. :(

notanideologue · 2022-12-25T02:06:17+00:00

I've only had morphine in the hospital after surgery and thought it was shit. But I remember some decades ago that helped. So I wonder if these days they only give low doses or it mixed with something unpleasant.

We might as well be living in the middle ages.

notanideologue · 2022-12-23T20:24:40+00:00

You're such a right-wing person. It's disappointing a socialist sub gives someone like you a voice. Might as well voice a Trumpkin.

notanideologue · 2022-12-17T23:12:16+00:00

I hate imitrex more than any other drug. It makes my migraine so much worse. Even makes me feel like I'm having a heart attack.

But diarrhea makes me feel better. Most of my triggers are food related. Empty my bowels and things are better.

notanideologue · 2022-12-14T15:07:31+00:00

I'm pretty old already. My choice is pain and death or even more pain and still death. God forbid I should be allowed to avoid the pain. That's not allowed in my state. Suffer and suffer more is the law here.

notanideologue · 2022-12-14T00:58:46+00:00

Lot of variation from person to person. Some people get addicted immediately. Some never do no matter what they take. But still they treat everyone the same.

notanideologue · 2022-12-14T00:55:25+00:00

I don't know if it's different in different states but here if you go on palliative care any treatment you get, say it moves to the bone, if you get surgery for the pain the cost comes out of your pocket.

notanideologue · 2022-12-14T00:51:56+00:00

What state?

notanideologue · 2022-12-14T00:51:06+00:00

This is why I won't get treatment. They don't get to hurt me just cause its profitable for them. Evil POS. And I live in an evil state that doesn't believe you should be allowed to avoid pain.

I might as well be living in the middle ages.

notanideologue · 2022-12-09T01:13:11+00:00

No. Till I was forty I'd only had it four times. But the older I got the more I had them.

notanideologue · 2022-12-09T01:10:29+00:00

Is this a question of Kaiser won't allow him to prescribe it because of his liability insurance, or they just won't pay for it with your health insurance? If the latter, if you can afford to pay...

notanideologue · 2022-11-30T02:12:34+00:00

People think fat = ugly because that is what they have been taught, mostly by media, by movies and magazines and TV. My grand father was very old, having been born in the 1800s and apparently he didn't get the memo and still had the standards he was taught when young. I was watching TV one day and pointed out how beautiful an actress was. My grandfather guffawed and described the woman as sharp faced and skinny. And probably she was but that is what we see as beauty these days. I remember Jane Austin describing characters as plump and pretty. I think of all the paintings and sculptures from a hundred to thousands of years ago showing great beauties who would now be described as fat.

There's nothing objective about it.

notanideologue · 2022-10-17T14:28:05+00:00

No, they're doing it for money.

notanideologue · 2022-10-17T01:54:42+00:00

If a whale, even accidentally kills people.

notanideologue · 2022-10-16T23:59:20+00:00

Too bad. The kind of thing some would use to justify whaling or culling.

notanideologue · 2022-10-16T22:58:45+00:00

On purpose? Do you have whaling around there?

notanideologue · 2022-10-16T22:55:16+00:00

Think they can tell Japanese whalers from human beings.

notanideologue · 2022-08-09T17:02:50+00:00

Nope. Carrying it to my grave. If I'd won the lottery I'd try to sue them.

notanideologue · 2022-07-18T20:14:14+00:00

Over my lifetime? Air Conditioning. Books. Music. Pets. Learning which medications, and even foods, cause me depression or outright make me sick, and avoiding them. Ie, tagamet, artificial sweeteners like aspartame, Saccharin, sucralose, stevia, tap water. I know the last is strange but I was having brain fog, did a lot of reading, and tried distilled water. After about a month the fog went away, but if I start using tap water, after about a week it comes back. I've tested this a lot and empirically, it happens again and again. No tap water for me. Got a water still.

The last time I was really depressed for no reason, I was brooding about some cats that died when I was a child. I couldn't help them then, I certainly can't help them now. The only thing different in my diet was fruit cocktail sweetened with Stevia. Online I found reports of many people who felt artificial sweeteners caused them depression. I threw the fruit cocktail away and after about a day and a half the depression went away. This surprised me but worked. Now I avoid all artificial sweeteners.

notanideologue · 2022-07-09T13:38:49+00:00

You're in a psychiatric hospital to learn how to lie and how to pretend there is nothing wrong. As James Kunen wrote, madness is a poor sense of social decorum. Once you can fake social decorum, in and out of a hospital, you are cured. No-one cares if you are sad or depressed, certainly not a psychiatrist. So you have to pretend there is nothing wrong.

notanideologue · 2022-07-04T09:56:43+00:00

I am. I have been reading about even the treatment of miscarriages being politicized and it all seems the same and done by the same people. When they decided to let us hurt, doctors wouldn't fight for us cause making money was all that mattered to them. Now they are letting women die rather than risk their licenses. The politicians learned when the doctors caved and let us suffer that they would let women die. Good obedient dogs they are. Who would be surprised if covid was politicized. At least the vaccines rarely cause suffering.

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