GlobalHealthNews.com September 6, 2019 Imagine a prescription medication that relieves pain just as well as narcotics like Oxycontin, but isn’t addictive. Too good to be true? Turns out, yes. For years, that was the case with Tramadol, a synthetic opioid drug that was released in 1995 under the brand name Ultram to great expectations. This…
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If You’re Worried About Your Elderly Mother’s Pain You Should Be
By Josh Bloom — September 22, 2019 My mother is one of the “lucky ones.” She has a devoted family and caretaker, is able to live in her own home, and doesn’t have to worry about choosing between food and prescription medications. But she is also 92 and recently her chronic back pain has gotten severe enough…
Widely Prescribed Opioid Drug Linked To Higher Hypoglycemia Risk
https://www.medicaldaily.com/opioid-drug-hypoglycemia-risk-441809 One of the five most popularly prescribed opioid analgesics in the United States for chronic pain conditions, tramadol, has proven to cause a tenfold risk of hypoglycemia in nondiabetic patients. There is a need to study the link of opioids to hypoglycemia since it indicates an early sign of diabetes, when blood sugar levels drop…
IN THE NEWS: U.S. Pain’s Emily Lemiska sheds light on patient rights.
This article was posted today (September 14, 2016 at 8:51 am.) Side effect of drug fight means some are left to suffer. Emily Lemiska was in trouble. She was out of medication and she was out of state. “Emily Lemiska is a Hartford resident who lives with chronic pain and manages it with a…
When your caree doesn’t act like your caree
“STOP, Please read this before continuing” Pain medications and their side effects vary from person to person, so please if your reading this and you’ve never had to take any of the medications mentioned here in “Do Not” think just because my mom had these side effects that you will also have…
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