Posted on 09/23/2009 9:24:03 AM PDT by WayneLusvardi
By the way, “Hello” noobie!
No, they’re going to push it. We need to start buying lots of poppies from the Afghans so they don’t starve.
I think one thing some people are missing in this story is that it is an opiate receptor, not just a morphine receptor. Pretty much any painkiller besides aspirin or acetaminophen is an opiate, and people receive these painkillers for a lot of things besides terminal stage cancer. You get them when you have dental surgery, back pain, broken bones, or most surgeries. So if you had an undiagnosed tumor that was growing very slowly, and were given opiates it might accelerate the growth, if the science behind this article is accurate.
http://www.lowdosenaltrexone.org/ldn_and_cancer.htm
My girlfriend was given morphine for 3 years while she fought and lost battle with cancer.
This is a foreign study from Kalmar University in Sweden.
The finding about morphine is buried in a report about the results of the study and apparently the finding was incidental to the major focus of the study.
MS is NOT a "last resort" pain reliever.
Will you agree to that?
And when did I say it's a "life long pain killer"?
Wow...where has the time gone????
LOL!!
Exactly, for people a brief time for various reasons like just breaking a hip.
Never disagreed with that. :-)
My whole deal was you said..... ( in the post that I replied to )..that MS was a pain reliever of "last resort".
It's NOT. Period.
It's good, it works.
It has very few complications...And it's relatively inexpensive.
What conditions are is it given for on a continuing basis?
Omit the ARE in the last post.
Depends on the Physician.
Depends on the pt's. condition.
Lot's of variables....from what I have seen.
Not given on “continuing” basis but prolonged period. Example: patient with slow growing gelatin-like mucous cancer of the abdomen. The cancer is “debulked” or reduced by surgery and chemo is administered into the abdomen at that time. Patient is given morphine for pain during prolonged (4 month recovery). Patient goes on intravenous chemo. Later, cancer reappears and a second tumor reduction surgery is done and more morphine administered. Another round of chemo. If the cancer progresses so that it causes inability to digest food any longer and patient must be fed intravenously and is in great pain, they might be given morphine again for last 6 months of life. Patient given morphine off and on for 3 years.
Scientists have discovered that swallowing small parts of saliva over long periods of time leads to death for 100 percent of all people who do so...
George Carlin
Regards to you, and Damn Straight.
When my sister-in law was in the final stages ( and to this day, I'm not sure if the treatment, or the cancer, was worse... ) smoking dope gave her a lot of relief from her miseries.
For some reason, that side of my family regards this as a Great Dark Secret We Are Not Supposed To Talk About.
I don't see it that way- a fact is a fact.
I have not even had one toke since 91 and had not regularly smoked since 83 but yes...350/oz for the best in mid South
much higher up north unless near Canada
so i hear
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