the Aleve works!!!
Sep. 28th, 2017 09:40 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mmegaeraAt least so far. Apparently it's not good for migraines, which was what made me think it didn't work at all several years ago, but it's *excellent* on cramps. And it lasts *12 hours*!!!!!
Also, the Prilosec I've started taking to protect my stomach lining from the NSAIDs per the nurse is also helping with the nausea, without the loopiness side effect the anti-nausea med gave me. That and eating less at a time but more frequently.
Here's hoping this state of things lasts longer than the last round of "making Meg comfortable" meds did. It's been very hard emotionally to realize that hospice's concept of comfortable is a lot more realistic and pragmatic than mine was.
Oh, and morphine (for breakthrough back pain) *must* be taken with a Miralax chaser. 'Nuff said.
Also, the Prilosec I've started taking to protect my stomach lining from the NSAIDs per the nurse is also helping with the nausea, without the loopiness side effect the anti-nausea med gave me. That and eating less at a time but more frequently.
Here's hoping this state of things lasts longer than the last round of "making Meg comfortable" meds did. It's been very hard emotionally to realize that hospice's concept of comfortable is a lot more realistic and pragmatic than mine was.
Oh, and morphine (for breakthrough back pain) *must* be taken with a Miralax chaser. 'Nuff said.
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Date: 2017-09-28 11:05 pm (UTC)On a complete tangent, while working on my dad's genealogy recently, I found one whole branch of his distant cousins that moved from North Carolina to the area around Bend, Oregon around the turn of the 19th/20th century. Not quite your part of the northwest, but it made me think of you anyway.
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Date: 2017-09-29 01:31 am (UTC)Bend is a gorgeous area. I went through there on my Long Trip last year. It's grown an amazing amount in the last 15 years or so.