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View Post: HERPES ZOSTER-SHINGLES. NOT A GOOD THING TO HAVE : Veterans Today ...
2 Nov 2009
Those who have severe, unrelenting pain may need nerve blocking injections and or require opiods such as morphine, codeine, or oxycodone. Medications may reduce your chances of developing complications from shingles. ..... thank you carol. my wife has had this awful occurance on her face, and in an eye. we visited an opthalmalogist for months and months. she is a 1%'er as was proven again with her face lift and allergy to the bandage used after that. lucky us. anyway, ...
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View Post: Doctor Goes to the ER Room – His Story About Over Diagnosing First ...
5 Oct 2009 by The Medical Quack  
problem and once he arrived at the ER room, he found out how vulnerable he was after a day at the hospital, 2 MRIs, a CT Scan, visits with specialists, etc. Overall it was over a $9000.00 day and he had the shingles that he thought was ...
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View Post: Shingles Symptoms and Treatment
17 Sep 2007
For moderate to severe pain, more potent pain killers like prescription NSAIDs (Diclofenac, Fenoprofen, Etodolac, Flurbiprofen, Ketoprofen, Nabumetone, Sulindac) or narcotic analgesics (Codeine Tablets, Morphine ER, Meperidine Oral, ...
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View Post: Health News for the Week of: Monday, November 16, 2009
23 Nov 2009 by skripa  
Morphine May Help Tumors Spread in Cancer Patients http://newsletters.medicinenet.com/cgi-bin21/DM/y/eBCSh0Nl5gN0GuQ0BsyU0El. Study Shows Hospital Report Cards Unlikely to Spur Improvement ...
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View Post: Alternative Medicine Discussion and Q&A: what other drug feels ...
28 Nov 2009 by your doctor  
However, the inventor of chiropractic, DD Palmer, invented it one week and hung up his shingle to start treating people the next week, and shortly thereafter set up the first school to teach others. ... The germ theory hadn't been established, and neither had genetics, and there were no real medicines other than morphine. It was a century earlier when yet another isolated lone maverick...Hahneman...invented homeopathy and coined the term allopathy to describe what the ...
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View Post: how we treat chronic pain
25 Apr 2009 by admin  
examples include duragesic (or generic fentanyl) patches that last 2 to 3 days, avinza or kadian (morphine), or ultram er (tramadol) that have 24 hour duration, and twice/thrice daily narcotics like oxycontin, oxycodone cr, morphine er ...
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View Post: Nash Sailing Ranch: 2 hard weeks left
24 Oct 2009 by Denbie  
They finally got it diagnosed and he has started all sorts of meds including morphine for the pain. Had to spend another 5 hours in the ER because his temp was up but they figure it is the shingles that is probably causing temp as his ...
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View Post: morphine: please tell me about it
26 Oct 2007 by Mike VG  
the end result of coming down with shingles due to stress at the age of 46. i've been dealing with this since january 15 (10 months). i'm on percocet 5/325 (because that's all the va claims to have) 240 pills a month for pain.3600mg of ...
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View Post: er, iv's, ekg's and x-rays
6 Aug 2006 by Ks Cowboy  
in july i end up with a case of the shingles and go to the doctor for the first time in over 10 years. then last evening, leaned back in my easy chair, i started having bad back and chest pains. after setting around for two hours and ...
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View Post: In the Beginning « TYPE A WITH R.A.
10 Jan 2007 by typeawithra  
The ER doc thought I'd had a mini-stroke. After months of tests for MS, lupus, etc., I gave up and decided to live with it. After all, I told myself maybe it had something to do with getting shingles when I was 6 yrs old on my left side. ... I had millions of pancreatic attacks and many visits to the ER. We couldn't get it under control and was usually on heavy painkillers like Demerol and Percoset on a daily basis. Morphine had to be used in more extreme attacks. ...
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