Guest guest Posted May 15, 2006 Report Share Posted May 15, 2006 DON'T try this at home. Several times a day, for several days, youinduce pain in someone. You control the pain with morphine until the final day of the experiment, when you replace the morphine with salinesolution. Guess what? The saline takes the pain away. Hm - I have a patent currently whose pain is not controlled by 100mg Oxycontin BD. Pain is worse in the evening. So GP in order to try & assist this patient more accurately with the greater p.m. need, changed the doses to 80mg in the morning and 160mg earlier in the p.m. - increasing the overall dose by 40mg. Today i find the patient hysterical first thing in the morning. She sobs "Dr has reduced my morning dose!" I explain in vain that she is receiving more overall. We decide to order 2 x 40mg tabs for the morning dose, hoping that the psychological need for MORE will be appeased by receiving 2 tabs in the a.m. instead of one. Update when results have been demonstrated. Jane Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 16, 2006 Report Share Posted May 16, 2006 Reminds me of a tale in the works of Taoist Chuang T,Zu . " What do I mean by -three in the morning ? " When the monkey trainer was handing out acorns he said " You get three in the morning and four at night " This made all the monkeys furious . " Well then " he said " you get four in the morning and three at night " The monkeys were all delighted. There was no change in the reality behind the words , yet the monkeys responded with joy and anger. Let them if they want to . So the Sage harmonizes with both right and wrong and rests in Heaven the Equaliser. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 16, 2006 Report Share Posted May 16, 2006 Yes it almost is - but the response is despair and despair I am still looking for some delight! - james white Tuesday, May 16, 2006 9:39 PM Re: Saline for pain Reminds me of a tale in the works of Taoist ChuangT,Zu ." What do I mean by -three in the morning ?" When the monkey trainer was handing out acorns he said" You get three in the morning and four at night "This made all the monkeys furious ." Well then " he said " you get four in the morningand three at night" The monkeys were all delighted.There was no change in the reality behind the words ,yet the monkeys responded with joy and anger. Let themif they want to .So the Sage harmonizes with both right and wrong andrests in Heaven the Equaliser. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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