Galinha chata-de-serviço a postos!
Sou eu. Na net, ao telefone, por SMS, de viva voz, sempre a buzinar os ouvidos da Cláudia com mais e mais info. Deixei uns comentários com info no post anterior, que me ajdaram a situar neste novo contexto.
Como sabes, cláudia, estou em chat rooms deste assunto desde que ficaste doente... hoje não resisto a deixar ficar aqui as palavras de uma doente com uma história muito complicada:
"No one can change what has happened to me. However, there is a choice to be made when catastrophic things happen -- You can choose to be bitter or you can choose to be better. I choose to be better. Also, don't listen to statistics because they are all based on treatments that were available 5 years ago and not what is available today. "
beijos
posted by sof @ 11:54 AM
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Já não vais ter que fazer nenhuma desintoxicação em Cuba... ora lê:
People who take cancer pain medicines rarely become addicted to them.
Addiction is a common fear of people taking pain medicine. Such fear may prevent people from taking the medicine. Or it may cause family members to encourage you to "hold off" as long as possible between doses. Addiction is defined by many medical societies as uncontrollable drug craving, seeking, and use. When opioids (also known as narcotics) — the strongest pain relievers available — are taken for pain, they rarely cause addiction as defined here. When you are ready to stop taking opioids, the doctor gradually lowers the amount of medicine you are taking. By the time you stop using them completely, the body has had time to adjust. Talk to your doctor, nurse, or pharmacist about how to use pain medicines safely and about any concerns you have about addiction.
Descontando o facto de isto ser feito por americanos, acho que pode dar umas pistas fixes para as conversas com os médicos.
Developing a Plan for Pain Control
The first step in developing a plan is talking with your doctor, nurse, and pharmacist about your pain. You need to be able to describe your pain to your health professionals as well as to your family or friends. You may want to have your family or friends help you talk to your health professionals about your pain control, especially if you are too tired or in too much pain to talk to them yourself.
Using a pain scale is helpful in describing how much pain you are feeling. An example of a pain scale can be found in the Appendix. Try to assign a number from 0 to 10 to your pain level. If you have no pain, use a 0. As the numbers get higher, they stand for pain that is getting worse. A 10 means the pain is as bad as it can be.
You may wish to use your own pain scale using numbers from 0 to 5 or even 0 to 100. Be sure to let others know what pain scale you are using and use the same scale each time, for example, "My pain is a 7 on a scale of 0 to 10."
You can use a rating scale to describe:
How bad your pain is at its worst.
How bad your pain is most of the time.
How bad your pain is at its least.
How your pain changes with treatment.
Tell your doctor, nurse, pharmacist and family or friends:
Where you feel pain.
What it feels like — sharp, dull, throbbing, steady.
How strong the pain feels.
How long it lasts.
What eases the pain, what makes the pain worse.
What medicines you are taking for the pain and how much relief you get from them.
Your doctor, nurse, and pharmacist may also need to know:
What medicines you are taking now and what pain medicines you have taken in the past, including what has worked and not worked. You may want to record this information on the charts, "Medicines Taking Now" and "Pain Medicines Taken in the Past," found in the Appendix.
Any known allergies to medicines.
Questions to ask your doctor or nurse about pain medicine:
How much medicine should I take? How often?
If my pain is not relieved, can I take more? If the dose should be increased, by how much?
Should I call you before increasing the dose?
What if I forget to take it or take it too late?
Should I take my medicine with food?
How much liquid should I drink with the medicine?
How long does it take the medicine to start working (called "onset of action")?
Is it safe to drink alcoholic beverages, drive, or operate machinery after I have taken pain medicine?
What other medicines can I take with the pain medicine?
What side effects from the medicine are possible and how can I prevent them?
http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/paincontrol/page3
mandei p teu mail de casa duas folhas pdf com diferentes terapias usadas em diferentes hospitais de portugal
Informações da Graça Rosendo, a minha colega que faz saúde no Sol:
CONSULTAS DA DOR - FUNDAMENTAIS NESTE MOMENTO
HOSPITAL DO MAR - Grupo espirito santo - tem acordo com multicare
há uma médica muito boaa isabel galriça neto
CLINICA DA REBOLEIRA
HOSPITAL DE SANTA MARIA
O comentário anterior é meu.
Vou ser menos activa que a Sofia - pk neste campeonato ninguém a bate. Se fosse uma corrida, a Sof ganhava a meia-maratona de Lisboa. Para além destes locais de consulta os Capuchos também têm consulta de dor. A Tal Isabel Galriça Neto é mesmo boa. Já conversei com ela, em trabalho.
Neste momento - para além da consulta de amanhã em Londres - esta é a etapa fundamental. Mas é muito importante ir a um médico especialista em dor. É bom sabermos quais os tratamentos usados mas temos/TENS de falar com um médico desta área
Claudia
Estou sem palavras e vou desaparecer de cena porque já não sei o que dizer
TODA A SORTE DO MUNDO PARA SI
Ontem, fui jantar aos Tibetanos com a minha amiga Catarina Caetano, para falar. E ela como é psicologa, sabe ouvir. Para além disso é toda «new age». Viveu no Brasil muitos anos e tem aquele toque de lá. A Catarina ACREDITA SINCERAMENTE QUE O STEVE JOHNSON VAI ENCONTRAR UMA TRÉGUA PARA PARAR ISTO
E eu, que apesar de fazer Tai-Chi e Pilates, não sou nada new-age, fiquei muito reconfortada por ela acreditar tanto que amanhã vai ser um novo dia para a Claudia e para nós
Pois é...todas nós temos tentado encontrar uma forma de afastar este peso pesado de cima...
A única coisa intocável é a certeza inabalável de que a Cláudia vai ficar boa!!!!
C.J.
A joaninha, mais parece um piri-lampo...e brilhante, mesmo!
a joaninha tem sido espectacular para a claudinha e para todos nós.
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