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SaHiB's avatar

Get, and carry, peppermint oil and a corticosteroid inhaler at once!

Other than "don't drive or operate dangerous machinery", midazolam (a benzodiazepine) is harmless. I gave my son and grandmother Versed™ on dental visits. However, dosis sola facit venenum. Take 50x the effective dose and you may not be able to breathe; asthma or not. Um, is propofol orally active? Also, what's with the UK using diamorphine? Heroin™ is strictly prohibited (though fairly readily available) in the US.

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Blackwater River's avatar

Sorry. I do always carry peppermints, called Polos, as they work magic on the horses. And in a pinch the dogs.

I’ve improved with my asthma since moving out of property with black mould. I do carry my inhaler of budesinide. When I had Sars/-CoV-2 or whatever pneumonia, they upped the budesinide 3X normal. Plus oral steroids and doxycycline.

I feel I had divine intervention via my doctor as his protocol was effective. Had I gone to hospital I would not be here today.

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sadie's avatar

what do you use peppermint for?

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Blackwater River's avatar

Usually, receiving morphine for pain relief is extremely difficult to be prescribed. In hospitals it always requires an assessment from a pain management expert and then it’s used with a driver. Hancock ensured there were sufficient drivers for the morphine. However, unlike normal pain management use, it was not patient controlled but by med staff. For short term home use, oromorph is prescribed.

As for propofol (a surgically used benzo) it’s always via IV by anesthetists.

Synthetic morphine slow release patches are prescribed in the UK, but again, continued use beyond short term must be assessed by pain management consultant.

Above is/was the norm. Staff in care homes rarely ever gave such drugs unless end of life care under a consultant’s continual input.

All the rules were thrown out. GPS without visiting (not allowed) care home residents were prescribed large doses of Midazalam, benzodiazepines and morphine because they claimed the patients were ‘agitated’. Meds were successful. Patients were never agitated again.

FYI I know about pain med use in UK as I have chronic pain. And I have had acute pain as I had a smashed up veterbrae embedded in the cauda equinas nerve bundle.

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SaHiB's avatar

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propofol

"Propofol ... is a short-acting medication that results in a decreased level of consciousness and a lack of memory for events. ... It is given by injection into a vein." Since its effect typically lasts five to ten minutes, I suppose it isn't very orally active.

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