Purdue Pharma learns fate over Oxycontin scandal

Blessed said:
I thank you for understanding! Yes, Perdue was wrong for what they did but also true is that we need a way to control pain.

Mind you, I have not been a position to worry about such things until 20 years ago but since then I have become acutely aware. First during a surgery for my son during a ACL injury and surgery. Second during my husband's cancer treatment. Third during my own hip replacement.

Only I was given oxycontin during a 24 hour hospital stay. I came home with hydrocodone during recovery. I got through it fine with ice bags and PT.

Son, also hydrocodone and a special therapy machine that moved his knee and kept ice water running to the knee. This, the machine, insurance denied at first and I had to fight it through the Office of Personnel Management. My husband was insured through the USPS. Shock but I won that round.

Husband, hydrocodone did not do a great job with pain control but others, oxycontin, morphine, fentanyl had worse side effects than he could tolerate. Hydrocodone was the only thing that helped that had tolerable side effects.
Keep in mind that was a strong stubborn man that was not about to stop working those 5 years. Yes, he would be very ill a couple of days after chemo that kept him in bed. Then he would be up and working if at all possible.

I am fully aware of drug addiction but I am also aware of disabling pain. I am sorry but I am still grateful for medications that will allow people to live the most fulfilling lives they can with dealing with acute/chronic pain.
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I'm sorry to hear about your husband.

I have stacks of Codeine here - they gave me for my knees. It does nothing. It doesn't help with the pain, and to be honest I don't feel affected by it at all (I know it's a mild opiod, though). I did some research at the time, and it turns out some people can have a genetic trait that negates pain relief from opiods:

"A common polymorphism (variation) in the \(\mu \)-opioid receptor (\(OPRM1\)) gene (A118G) can make a patient less sensitive to the pain-relieving effects of opioids." AI

I no longer take the codeine (obviously!). Even here in the UK, my doctor won't give me the next step up, which he suggested was Morphine. Not at any dose. He's probably right.....
 
Why is your friend the doctor sharing private information about a patient with you?

HIPPA? Isn’t it wrong to do that?
 
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