my mother had a combination of very debilitating conditions, including a horrific case of trigeminal neuralgia, migraines, and horrible sciatica from a tailbone injury as a child. over the years the number of prescription she was on increased to crazy levels. my dad owned a pharmacy, and I remember he compounded all kinds of things for her, such as 10mg levorphanol capsules, and both formulations of ketamine in both lollipop form, as well as these little grayish brown soft rectangular things(I'm not even sure how she took them.) eventually switched over to an IV pump of dilaudid(I believe around 48mg a day) mixed with ketamine, and was also on two(at least I think it was two, may have been only one) 100 microgram/hr fentanyl patches. this, in addition to 10 mg of valium twice a day, one mg of klonipin at night, Ritalin, tegretal, neurontin, baclofen, imitrex, Elavil, keflex, and others I can't remember(and mind you, my mother was like 110 lbs at the time.) sadly, she attempted suicide several times due to the pain(along with the side effects of the medications which could be horrible.) she, my father, and her doctors decided it would be best to try to get off as many of the medications as possible, so over the course of a year or two she got off all of the pain killers and most of the other drugs. ironically, after she took her last dose of dilaudid, she felt much better for a couple weeks, and left the house to do things(like go to the mall for example) for the first time in years. sadly(as seemed to always be the case for her) this did not last. she eventually tried to commit suicide a final time, and ended up in a psychiatric in-patient facility. while there, one of the doctors said he had heard of ECT(electro-conclusive therapy) working on patients with severe pain, including trigeminal neuralgia. she tried it, and the effects were _incredible._ she'd been suffering for literally over 20 years, going through countless failed/innefective treatments and surgeries(including brain surgery), and in the span of a couple weeks she was all of a sudden able to live an almost normal life. this lasted for about 8 years or so, and the pain started getting really bad again, and she'd spend her days crying a lot, but we were able to get her back into the same in-patient facility(she would have had to wait like 6 months if she did it out-patient), and the ECT treatments were just as effective. if there is anyone out there suffering from TN, or some other chronic pain issue, I highly suggest looking into, and talking with your doctor about ECT.
Well the reason we grew away from compound pharmacy is because we evolved. And we got better at drug manufacturing more regulated and cleaner. That's why you really don't see compound pharmacies anymore. Because it's really not FDA approved and they don't have oversight at all, the only time the FDA comes into play is when something goes wrong and by that point it's already too late. From the things that I've read compound pharmacies are like a shot in the dark on whether your doctor is going to get it right or not. I have heard some really really bad things.
Thank you for providing a clear explanation of what a compounding pharmacy does, and the benefits of compounding medication.
my mother had a combination of very debilitating conditions, including a horrific case of trigeminal neuralgia, migraines, and horrible sciatica from a tailbone injury as a child.
over the years the number of prescription she was on increased to crazy levels. my dad owned a pharmacy, and I remember he compounded all kinds of things for her, such as 10mg levorphanol capsules, and both formulations of ketamine in both lollipop form, as well as these little grayish brown soft rectangular things(I'm not even sure how she took them.) eventually switched over to an IV pump of dilaudid(I believe around 48mg a day) mixed with ketamine, and was also on two(at least I think it was two, may have been only one) 100 microgram/hr fentanyl patches. this, in addition to 10 mg of valium twice a day, one mg of klonipin at night, Ritalin, tegretal, neurontin, baclofen, imitrex, Elavil, keflex, and others I can't remember(and mind you, my mother was like 110 lbs at the time.)
sadly, she attempted suicide several times due to the pain(along with the side effects of the medications which could be horrible.)
she, my father, and her doctors decided it would be best to try to get off as many of the medications as possible, so over the course of a year or two she got off all of the pain killers and most of the other drugs. ironically, after she took her last dose of dilaudid, she felt much better for a couple weeks, and left the house to do things(like go to the mall for example) for the first time in years.
sadly(as seemed to always be the case for her) this did not last. she eventually tried to commit suicide a final time, and ended up in a psychiatric in-patient facility. while there, one of the doctors said he had heard of ECT(electro-conclusive therapy) working on patients with severe pain, including trigeminal neuralgia. she tried it, and the effects were _incredible._ she'd been suffering for literally over 20 years, going through countless failed/innefective treatments and surgeries(including brain surgery), and in the span of a couple weeks she was all of a sudden able to live an almost normal life. this lasted for about 8 years or so, and the pain started getting really bad again, and she'd spend her days crying a lot, but we were able to get her back into the same in-patient facility(she would have had to wait like 6 months if she did it out-patient), and the ECT treatments were just as effective.
if there is anyone out there suffering from TN, or some other chronic pain issue, I highly suggest looking into, and talking with your doctor about ECT.
lol. sorry. I have no idea where that came from. I really went on a tangent there didn't I?
Mockturtlesoup1 Sometimes you just have to talk to somebody you did the right thing
thank you , i learned something new.
Jesus christ
This is incredible!
which is the best software for compounding pharmacy?
I do have a question if I wanted to practice compounding pharmacy and have a career in compounding how would I do that?
Either get a Doctorate of Pharmacy (in the USA) to become a pharmacist, or become a compounding technician.
Plz name this medicine
Well the reason we grew away from compound pharmacy is because we evolved. And we got better at drug manufacturing more regulated and cleaner. That's why you really don't see compound pharmacies anymore. Because it's really not FDA approved and they don't have oversight at all, the only time the FDA comes into play is when something goes wrong and by that point it's already too late. From the things that I've read compound pharmacies are like a shot in the dark on whether your doctor is going to get it right or not. I have heard some really really bad things.
Yeah the main example is people trying to get off benzodiazepine