I apologise. It has been a week! I just posted an update which explains that I did get my opioids in the end, but I was treated very poorly, lied to, red flagged, and I have to do it all again at the end of the month. In Australia at least, people who rely on long-term opioid therapy are an underclass. A cohort that some doctors do wish to talk to, let alone treat and help. Thanks for reading, and commenting. I appreciate it.
You’re not “rebutting science”. You’re rebutting the bullshit that has masqueraded as science and unfortunately has polluted the provision of health services.
So sorry you bearing the brunt of it. The treatment is barbaric.
The science was settled in 1985. Dr Avram Goldstein's landmark work, done at the US National Institute of Mental Health and presented at Canada's International Convention on Substance Abuse in Toronto that November, conclusively proved that morphine is a hormone not only in humans but in all eukaryotic plant and animal species. This hormone plays a vital role in regulating metabolism. Without it, our cells would burn themselves up. There literally is no such thing as an opioid-free person. An average person's adrenal glands crank out about 800 mg of morphine daily.
This led to breakthroughs in managing heart attack.
Oh dear, scary story. Do let us know what happens on Monday. The whole pain management thing in Australia is strange. I developed very painful shingles just before the Christmas break last year. My usual doctor was away and so I had to get an emergency consultation with another doctor in the practice I had not seen before. That doctor did not look at my back and arm to confirm my self diagnosis with shingles, and would only give me three days worth of pain meds. After that I had to return every three days for a new 3 day script. I saw 5 different doctors in all, NONE of whom ever asked to see the shingles, but most of whom were at best cold and at worst, downright nasty. I was treated as if I was scamming the meds. Which eventually gave me the idea to scam the meds. As the pain started to ease, but the shingles rash was still visibly active, I went back for the final two scripts, tolerated the now receding pain, and stashed the pills. I decided that I could not trust doctors to do the right thing by me so I had to take the necessary steps to protect myself. They are still sitting in my cabinet draw, in case I have another "rainy day", in severe pain, and without access to pain meds. I could not believe how badly I was treated for wanting pain meds for an ailment that is clearly visible to the naked eye for anyone who bothers to look, AND is known to be extraordinarily painful. Sure, as my pain was temporary, it is a good idea to ensure I don't get hooked, but after 9 days of pain meds, I had no noticeable withdrawal from them when I stopped and the two spare boxes are still sitting there. I hate not being trusted and surely they can look at their records and see that these were the only pain scripts I had ever had from them.
The heart attack breakthrough is a story in itself. Morphine stabilizes nitric oxide, a corrosive air pollutant and lung toxin that, only when stabilized with morphine, controls oxygen consumption by the body's mitochondria. When a coronary artery becomes blocked, the part of the heart not receiving enough blood flow instantly begins starving for oxygen. Nitroglycerin tablets release nitric oxide into the blood, slowly enough to form a stable complex with morphine, and on permeating the blockage, signal the heart to relax itself and use less oxygen. Giving the patient oxygen also helps with the oxygen starvation, keeping the heart muscle alive long enough for a surgical team to open the chest and bypass the blockage with a stent. A mnemonic acronym drilled into nursing students and emergency medical technician trainees is "MONA", for "Morphine, Oxygen, Nitroglycerin, and Aspirin". Preferably all four should be administered within 5 minutes of discovering symptoms of heart attack. The morphine and aspirin help with the intense chest pain of a heart attack but that's not the urgent reason to give them. The primary reason to give them is to keep the heart muscle from dying before a bypass can be done.
What's truly bizarre in today's medical institutions is that doctors can simultaneously know why morphine saves lives during heart attack, yet believe total bunk about the causes of addiction.
Everybody is exposed to morphine. Morphine exposure, proved Goldstein, does not explain addictive behavior.
Arthritis Chick, this essay is excellent evidence of the failure of the contemporary medical establishment. The government has enacted an attitude toward patients with pain, that is weird in the context of human and medical history.
Drug prohibition hasn't made even a small dent in the non-medical market for various drugs, but has created misery for so many innocent, law-abiding pain patients.
We are all waiting patiently for an update
and I forgot to post the link..
https://arthriticchick.substack.com/p/i-did-get-my-opioids-to-treat-my
I apologise. It has been a week! I just posted an update which explains that I did get my opioids in the end, but I was treated very poorly, lied to, red flagged, and I have to do it all again at the end of the month. In Australia at least, people who rely on long-term opioid therapy are an underclass. A cohort that some doctors do wish to talk to, let alone treat and help. Thanks for reading, and commenting. I appreciate it.
You’re not “rebutting science”. You’re rebutting the bullshit that has masqueraded as science and unfortunately has polluted the provision of health services.
So sorry you bearing the brunt of it. The treatment is barbaric.
The science was settled in 1985. Dr Avram Goldstein's landmark work, done at the US National Institute of Mental Health and presented at Canada's International Convention on Substance Abuse in Toronto that November, conclusively proved that morphine is a hormone not only in humans but in all eukaryotic plant and animal species. This hormone plays a vital role in regulating metabolism. Without it, our cells would burn themselves up. There literally is no such thing as an opioid-free person. An average person's adrenal glands crank out about 800 mg of morphine daily.
This led to breakthroughs in managing heart attack.
Oh dear, scary story. Do let us know what happens on Monday. The whole pain management thing in Australia is strange. I developed very painful shingles just before the Christmas break last year. My usual doctor was away and so I had to get an emergency consultation with another doctor in the practice I had not seen before. That doctor did not look at my back and arm to confirm my self diagnosis with shingles, and would only give me three days worth of pain meds. After that I had to return every three days for a new 3 day script. I saw 5 different doctors in all, NONE of whom ever asked to see the shingles, but most of whom were at best cold and at worst, downright nasty. I was treated as if I was scamming the meds. Which eventually gave me the idea to scam the meds. As the pain started to ease, but the shingles rash was still visibly active, I went back for the final two scripts, tolerated the now receding pain, and stashed the pills. I decided that I could not trust doctors to do the right thing by me so I had to take the necessary steps to protect myself. They are still sitting in my cabinet draw, in case I have another "rainy day", in severe pain, and without access to pain meds. I could not believe how badly I was treated for wanting pain meds for an ailment that is clearly visible to the naked eye for anyone who bothers to look, AND is known to be extraordinarily painful. Sure, as my pain was temporary, it is a good idea to ensure I don't get hooked, but after 9 days of pain meds, I had no noticeable withdrawal from them when I stopped and the two spare boxes are still sitting there. I hate not being trusted and surely they can look at their records and see that these were the only pain scripts I had ever had from them.
How did you go?
The heart attack breakthrough is a story in itself. Morphine stabilizes nitric oxide, a corrosive air pollutant and lung toxin that, only when stabilized with morphine, controls oxygen consumption by the body's mitochondria. When a coronary artery becomes blocked, the part of the heart not receiving enough blood flow instantly begins starving for oxygen. Nitroglycerin tablets release nitric oxide into the blood, slowly enough to form a stable complex with morphine, and on permeating the blockage, signal the heart to relax itself and use less oxygen. Giving the patient oxygen also helps with the oxygen starvation, keeping the heart muscle alive long enough for a surgical team to open the chest and bypass the blockage with a stent. A mnemonic acronym drilled into nursing students and emergency medical technician trainees is "MONA", for "Morphine, Oxygen, Nitroglycerin, and Aspirin". Preferably all four should be administered within 5 minutes of discovering symptoms of heart attack. The morphine and aspirin help with the intense chest pain of a heart attack but that's not the urgent reason to give them. The primary reason to give them is to keep the heart muscle from dying before a bypass can be done.
What's truly bizarre in today's medical institutions is that doctors can simultaneously know why morphine saves lives during heart attack, yet believe total bunk about the causes of addiction.
Everybody is exposed to morphine. Morphine exposure, proved Goldstein, does not explain addictive behavior.
Arthritis Chick, this essay is excellent evidence of the failure of the contemporary medical establishment. The government has enacted an attitude toward patients with pain, that is weird in the context of human and medical history.
Drug prohibition hasn't made even a small dent in the non-medical market for various drugs, but has created misery for so many innocent, law-abiding pain patients.