Comments on: Update on my foot and mouth

By: Ymar Sakar

Ymar Sakar — Tue, 13 Feb 2018 23:48:35 +0000

Aesop’s been stockpiling stuff for awhile. Although it’s probably due to the LDS influence rather than the survival preparation influence I started with.

Anyways, that means people who started early, are more knowledgeable than the theoretical talking heads.

I’m counting the days till I can stop taking this incredibly strong antibiotic, too.

It’s probably doing major damage to your microbiome Neo.

The reduction in the conversion of energy is sub optimal for injury recovery. It might be for infections in your mouth, which tends to be bad due to surgeries. I use frankincense, melaleuca, and some other oils to keep mouth infections down. Works much better than any kind of general antibiotic.

By: Frog

Frog — Mon, 12 Feb 2018 04:39:40 +0000

Neo:
I’ve had the same arm (nerve relocation) surgery. You had post-op pain, not neuropathic pain as well. Ulnar nerves are not moved for neuropathic pain. If Vicodin didn’t help, you are atypical (but we already know that!). Your jumpy “response” to an opioid is most unusual. Vicodin is hydrocodone plus Tylenol.
I figured your Clinda was d/t drug allergies. I do not know what “bad reactions” you may have had to other antibiotics; those would be unusual also.

By: Jim Miller

Jim Miller — Mon, 12 Feb 2018 04:26:26 +0000

neo – Hope you are all well, soon.

By: MollyNH

MollyNH — Sun, 11 Feb 2018 18:43:08 +0000

@Aesop. We figured out that big pharma & food industry just loves to have you throw perfectly good stuff out and BUY MORE, $$$$
Plus you get the odd migraine headache & you turned your perfectly good analgesic in on *give us your drugs day*.

By: Gary D. G.

Gary D. G. — Sun, 11 Feb 2018 14:02:30 +0000

hope your ankle’s working better sooner; the mouth is easy, heals rapidly; the foot, not so much. if it continues beyond what you feel is reasonable, please see a good physical therapist.

By: AesopFan

AesopFan — Sun, 11 Feb 2018 06:08:35 +0000

MollyNH Says:
February 10th, 2018 at 10:26 pm
Kevin Expiration dates are a ruse. The US army which uses huge amounts of medication needed to know how valid were the expiry dates.
* * *
I was inventorying my somewhat extensive stock of RX and OTC meds (7 people in the family at the time and we always kept left-overs in case the doc wasn’t available on nights or week-ends*) and hated to throw things out that were “not that old” — found the Army study and held on to what was indicated therein.
IIRC, the only really for real expiration dates were things like insulin and hormonal preparations. Vitamins, general analgesics, antibiotics, etc. were, as you say, only slightly less effective after quite some time (a couple of years at least).
The same is true of most foods. Canned, dried, shelf-stable, etc. will go for some years after the expiration date (which is usually a “remove from sale” or “we don’t guarantee quality after this” date, rather than true expiration).
There are some exceptions (meat, for instance), but there are lots of sites on-line to consult.
Household supplies (soap, cleaners, etc) also have varying degrees of real expiration (perfume- & dye-free items last longer, not surprisingly).
My rule was basically: if it looked or smelled bad toss it; if it looked and smelled okay, think about it; when in ANY doubt, throw it out.

*We had a standing appointment for 5 pm on Fridays every week (not really as a joke. Whenever one of the kids was diagnosed with strep or similar diseases, the pediatrician just gave me scripts for all 5 of them on general principles, in case they came down with it later; I only filled them if needed.

By: neo-neocon

neo-neocon — Sun, 11 Feb 2018 05:27:58 +0000

Actually, I also had a strange experience with Vicodin, which I was given after my arm surgery (anterior submuscular ulnar transposition). I had post-surgical pain and neuropathic pain, but the Vicodin seemed to do next to nothing for either, and it also made me feel like I’d taken about 10 cups of coffee; very jumpy. I stopped taking it pretty quickly.

By: neo-neocon

neo-neocon — Sun, 11 Feb 2018 04:51:49 +0000

Frog:

I was given clindamycin because I am allergic or have had bad reactions to several others.

By: Frog

Frog — Sun, 11 Feb 2018 04:36:53 +0000

Good luck with your Clinda. There are other antibiotics that could have been used. Vicodin seems overkill.
But I am confident it will work out in the end.
I trust you saw an oral surgeon.

Tommy Jay: one does not get ‘Withdrawal” after a single Fentanyl dose.

By: MollyNH

MollyNH — Sun, 11 Feb 2018 03:26:31 +0000

Kevin Expiration dates are a ruse. The US army which uses huge amounts of medication needed to know how valid were the expiry dates. Around the same time a cache of many
med s were recovered from an abandoned pharmacy that was on the first floor of the owners apartment building, in small town USA so no danger of thievery. The med s here from 1968. There were BP meds, pain meds, diabetic meds, just a well rounded assortment even opium for diarrhea. THE meds retained 96 % or better of their potency. The exception was aspirin which deteriorated to crumbling. & I do not brlieve there were any antibiotics, those would decay no doubt .
Just Google , Army study on expired med s, for more info.
Hubby and I horde meds, we are modest dooms day peppers lol, & you do not want to be short stuff you need when things get bad. We never do a Turn in your drugs day, strictly for the ill informed. I am a nurse though so may be gives me more confidence about holding onto to things, just in case.
Sure glad my son in law kept his vicodin.!!