FDA Approves New Drug for Severe Pain

NY Times ^ | December 28, 2004 | THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

[facedown]

Cool!

[Flavius]

pot?

[Paleo Conservative]

How long till the FDA takes them off the market due to side effects?

[LauraleeBraswell]

Where do we sign up to sue?

[Dark Glasses and Corncob Pipe]

Is it supposed to work for liberals' post-election pain?

[neverdem]

How long till the FDA takes them off the market due to side effects?

I doubt that. Morphine can kill. It's not being halted. This is for folks with infusion pumps when morphine doesn't cut the mustard anymore.

[neverdem]

FReepmail me if you want on or off my health and science ping list.

[Thebaddog]

The point is still well made if rhetorical, that the FDA has lost credibility by turning on it's own approval process.

If the FDA were a private company, the feds would shut them down and the trial lawyers would be feasting on the carcass.

[dawn53]

Elan's on a roll it seems.

They just developed a MS drug that is supposedly twice as effective as the interferons, and is given by infusion.

Yearly cost for that drug is estimated to be $25,000 per year. Wonder what the charge for this med will be?

[Paleo Conservative]

Don't underestimate the stupidity of the FDA or Congress.

[blackdog]

After three days on morphine, a double dose is like pissin in the ocean. Morphine works great for a short time, then your system seems to dismiss it. I've found that IV pushes of demeral followed by intramuscular shots of nubaine work much better than morphine if what you've got is going to take a while. Compazine shots will take away the wave of nausea that accompanies a direct mainline of the demerol. If you want to know why heroin addicts puke after a nice boot, just get a mainline shot of morphine or demeral and you'll figure it out.......

This new drug sounds interesting. I'll be getting some surgery in February and it will be painful. I'll test it out.

[corbe]

Now that the FDA has approved it, The DEA will regulate it. The people that 'really' need it will die in pain. How do these Dr.'s sleep at night.
/Chronic pain sufferer gets off the soapbox (now)

[Squantos]

Wow ! A Black Box Warning.........Where can I get a 5 gallon can of this stuff and a straw !

[Squantos]

Whoa ! What did ya break BD ?........yer back ??

[codyjacksmom]

After major knee surgery last month, this new med would have been something to try. I am extremely medication resistant, and todays pain killers don't work on me. I also cannot be numbed. After surgery was not fun, they had me on the highest dose and the highest frequency, but it didn't help the pain at all. If this new stuff works, I know what I'll be asking for next time.

Blackdog...if you get this and it works, let me know will ya? Thanks. CJM

[blackdog]

I'm a walking mess. Both clavicals smashed, impaled by a truck leafspring, broken femur, shredded quads, various skull fractures and amnesia's(some day I'll share the joys of IV Dilantin), snapped ankles, and six hernias. And then a bunch of normal stuff too.

Bottom line is to stay away from jumping horses and don't tailgate large trucks on the interstate. The ankles were from landing a plane in a field and not getting it stopped in time for a creek embankment while still moving at a good clip. Keep your feet off the rudders and floorboards once crashed.

The surgery this season is to keep me from getting frozen shoulders. Every few years I need clavicular resections due to calcification from prior damage.

[blackdog]

You betchya! I'll let you know. Knees are tough because you're dealing with two different types of pain, both skeletal and soft connective tissue. The big-time stuff is great on skeletal but iffy on connective tissues which are on fire. Pain sure keeps you alert though huh? Nature's pretty cool when you think about it. I find shock to be like an acid trip. It's like being outside your body and looking back in. Time stands still. Your mind drifts elsewhere and yet you see and hear everything around you.

[Squantos]

Sorry to hear all that fun has come back on ya so hard. Hope ya at least had the doors open on that AC crash.....:o)

All my back injuries came from thin air PLF's and too many sudden stops. Never crashed a fixed wing, a few dead stick landings etc but broke a bunch of tail booms and skids in auto rotations on old UH-1's and got shorter every time......now the back is broke and hurts but I'll not whine in your presence. I fit as a fiddle compared to your status. Surgery is on the horizon for me too...again.

Hope they get ya back to no pain status at the very least.....Stay safe !

[blackdog]

I've even developed a resistance to anesthesia drugs. It used to be I was out in a second. Now I feel it burning and get that metalic taste in my mouth. They have to hold me down. The burning pain in the veins is just brutal. Last time they were super generous with the valium shots in pre-op. It didn't help at all. It just made the music more enjoyable. Being operated on to BB King is quite an honor. It takes about fifteen seconds for me to drop out cold now. Amazing the ways the body adapts.