PHARMACIST STEVE

Maybe this is why you don’t look SICK ?

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   Paincare2014, on November 9, 2014 at 10:14 am said:

   I placed a full length mirror over a friends amputated leg mirroring his good leg making it look like he had two legs again while he was sitting up in bed putting 3 pillows behind his back to prop him up so he could see the mirror, this is called mirror box therapy and it works. I read about this therapy and saw it on the TV series HOUSE and thought my friend could benefit. He was having severe phantom pain ,where his neural transmitters sent false signals to his brain making it seem like his amputated leg was still there and hurting like all hell. By mirroring his good leg and him looking directly at the mirror for a long time without moving his eyes away for about 8 minutes his phantom pain began to subside.
   Even though it was temporary pain relief any amount of time without ongoing pain is priceless and well worth the time I was able to help him. He was paralyzed from the waist down and I saw him go in and out of hospitals with urinary tract infections and wound care for 9 years. His doctors told him he shouldn’t be feeling any pain beings though he was paralyzed in both legs but pain in our brains is not fully understood but this guy Elliot is doing a good job moving things forward.

   There will come a day when people will no longer have to suffer with ongoing pain, with enough research eventually doctors will find a way be deal with ongoing pain fast and efficient. We should be there already but because of people that are anti – opioid mongers were stuck dealing with these numb sculls.
   Seems peoples time could be better spent finding a solution to chronic pain instead of thinking of ways to keep opioids from those that truly need them and suffer every day of their lives, Dr. K#####y, you hateful jerk.

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   boilerrph, on November 7, 2014 at 10:20 pm said:

   If they were prescribed to you…there your pills…no

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   kim. Lawson, on November 7, 2014 at 8:24 pm said:

   Is it illegal to keep a surplus of pain pills.. I tend. To save them for.bad days. I take them for flu or severe colds .

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     Paincare2014, on November 9, 2014 at 9:04 am said:

     Kim,
     You take pain pills for the flu or a cold ,your joking correct, if your not joking your not playing with a full deck of cards. Pain pills cant and do not help in any way if you have a cold or the flu. Please tell me your messing around and just joking and your not a severe idiot.

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   Gene, on November 7, 2014 at 1:50 am said:

   His explanation of pain is an oversimplification and he missed 60% of pain management. There are many mechanisms of pain and you must adjust your treatment with respect to a particular mechanism of pain. This way you can help your patient and avoid getting your patient addicted to opioids.
   This is coming from a compounding pharmacist.

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     musicfedsoul, on November 7, 2014 at 9:57 am said:

     Gene, and what do you do when that doesn’t work? What happens when the statistics, “proven” treatments, therapies, modalities don’t work? How should patients correctly and accurately convey to health professionals that they’ve given considerable effort to the process and it’s still not working?

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