Morphine - Articles
Cheat Days, Friend or Foe?
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springrenual
... ugh to get real lasting results. What's more, studies have shown that the brain's response to these foods (which in fact is the same response it has to cocaine, heroine, and morphine!) is MORE INTENSE when reexposed to it after a period of abstinence! So by not having these foods for most of the week, and then eating them again, we make the reacti ...
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Step 1 - Remove
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chefpenny
... as well. There are medical tests that you can run to test for allergies but these are often not accurate. ASD children treat these foods as a drug in their system. It's like morphine in their system due to leaky gut. Their guts are in such a mess that the food literally leaks out into their bodies . You may see withdrawal similar to that of an ad ...
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News from the front Day T+7
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Strapples
... ed which resulted in Sudden Respiratory Distress (Respiratory Fibrillation <breathing in and out extremely rapidly and shallow>) and extreme pain, I am taking morphine via G-Tube right now to mitigate the pain in my throat and pain around my G-Tube site from the severe irritationI spoke a few short sentences on my own with the trach ...
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When chronic pain becomes unbearable
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Neo-Conduit
... iating down my legs, into the genital/anal area, and any kind of movement made it worse.I ended up propping up my legs on a chair in front of me to take pressure off my butt. Morphine wasn't working, and as my Friend and I were leaving I was begging her not to walk so fast as I couldn't keep up due to worsening pain. Fi had watched this progression ...
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Bladder stone/infection chaos
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Neo-Conduit
... so everything goes haywire including increased diarrhoea. I empty my bladder around six times a day, increased emptying doesn't seem to help the pain. I end up resorting to morphine to settle down the bowels, anti inflammatories are pretty useless as they irritate my stomach more, and panadol although effective at times, works little more than a ...
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When medical records are forged
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Neo-Conduit
... they arrived shortly after and blocked her car in. So I tried to brave it out for my girls sake. She stood weeping as mummy got dragged off on a stretcher, doped up with I.V morphine. It broke my heart. The usual stuff in resus, bloods, a new I.V, Gentimycin, more morphine, and monitoring. The Dr dealing with my case did a great job, trying to su ...
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Ramadan and home from Hospital
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Neo-Conduit
... was to come and place a line. Then after a while I was given panadol and ibuprofen, which I gagged and retched and wasn't able to take 2 of the 5 pills. I was already on a morphine type medication and had tried these also before coming in, but to be compliant I took the meds. They didn't work, I was left for another lengthy time without even see ...
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Bad, bad patient and leaking P.I.C.C Line
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Neo-Conduit
... ruciating pain in my upper back between my shoulder blades. I didn't know what it was but I was desperate for sleep as I had to work the next day, the pain was bad enough for morphine so I took some and returned back to sleep. Later that day again after showering and removing my arm cover I noticed air had returned into the line. Damn, phoned nurse ...
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Codeine, Breastfeeding and Your Genes
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Lisa E. L.
Some women carry multiple copies of a gene that metabolizes codeine into morphine. These women process codeine at much higher rates than the average person, which means that when they take an average dose of codeine, it is rapidly converted to unus ...
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FDA Warns Breastfeeding Moms: Genes and Codeine Risk
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Lisa E. L.
... could be attributed to a mother’s genetic makeup. The FDA’s codeine advisory reads, in part, “When codeine enters the body and is metabolized, it changes to morphine, which relieves pain. Many factors affect codeine metabolism, including a person’s genetic make-up. Some people have a variation in a liver enzyme and may chang ...
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