Posted by okydoky on June 23, 2008, at 23:15:52
In reply to Re: Smart People » Midnightblue, posted by SLS on June 20, 2008, at 16:35:34
I thought I had a memory that Meridia was taken off the market? Perhaps it's a false memory.
My two cents about Lyrica and pain meds.
Lyrica causes my depression to be unrelenting and insurmountable by the minute and can take several weeks to abate after I discontinue it. I tried a small dose of Neurontin and the results were one; it did not help my pain and two; I cried all day. With Lyrica I can't even cry. Oxycontin does nothing for the arthritic pain. I currently have three different pain medications for different pains. If you are in a lot of pain I personally think it might be worth trying Lyrica, if you can deal with the possibility of a temporary horrible change in mood and I would suggest having a person close to you as a subjective observer of your affect or mood change so you don't get stuck in a depression you don't realize is caused or exacerbated by the Lyrica.
Good luck.
Some tongue and cheek now.
If we're going to try and prescribe for a compilation of diseases ( well who would not prefer to take less medication, hell the drug companies are doing it with "Cauduet" and others and wow now one can take "boniva" once a month instead of, for God's sake, having to take a pill once a day or week. It seems the newest selling ploys are two in ones and once a years[http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/69451.php])
Anyway the following is my personal compilation:
1. Arthritis pain (in the neck literally) see 5*
2. Interstitial cystitis (I cannot "stress" strongly enough the "urgency" of this particular "pain")
3. trd (In layman's terms: The act of being a "Sloth" [deadly sinner] or "slothful": see 8*)
4. eating disorder (A disease that either "feeds" on itself or has one running on "empty")
5. pain in the *ss disease( Still an orphan disease but no doubt pharmaceutical companies are working diligently to come up with a cure. Physicians often prescribe off label for this ailment because of its "die hard" complication, most especially when family lean heavily on the physician or if the treating physician is therapy "Aversive" check http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aversives
6. Stop the world I want to get off syndrome (a dizzying cluster of symptoms)
7. Why was I born dilemma (sometimes prematurely diagnosed) (see 8*)
8. Is there a God (the disease that never presents its true modality, lacks definable symptoms and is often "preexisting")
All in good humor and perhaps a bit of nonsense,
oky
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