| Melissa 2006-09-25, 9:31 pm |
| Oh the allergic thing, I woke up the next day with puffed out eyelids, does
that sound like an allergy?
Melissa
> I would agree with Ginnie, it is not clear what the situation is.
> Dilaudid is usually regarded as having about the highest addiction
> potential of any of the Class II opioids (which still isn't very great for
> patients using them for genuine pain), so asking for something else would
> certainly not seemlike drug-seeking beavior.
>
> It is important to use the term allergic carefully and correctly. An
> allergic reaction to a medicine can be very dangerous and, depending on
> the type of reaction, can be a near-absolute contraindication to taking
> it. Many patients, however, use the term to describe any adverse reaction
> to the medicine. Opioids often cause nausea, but that is not mediated by
> an allergic mechanism. They may cause intense itching, but that turns
> out, at least a major part of the time, to be a direct action of the drug
> on the mu (morphine) receptors in the nervous system, not a reaction
> mediated by allergy.
>
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