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Originally Posted by yorkietalkjilly  I'm hoping and praying that medication will help her. I have often severe itching from pain medication so I only take small parts of the pills a little at a time. If I take a whole half of a pill I can itch horribly. Plus it gives me a headache and nausea! Maybe she can try taking only a piece or portion of a pill IF the pill comes in a form that can safely be cut up, which your pharmacist can tell you.
I hope she can eat something and get some strength. Can she drink Ensure or Bolthouse Farms Protein Plus and their other nutrition drinks and things like that? I've heard Bolthouse Farms makes delicious drinks loaded with nutrition. |
Hi, Jeanie.
Thank you, our so dear friend for hoping & praying the medication will help Sheila.
Sheila is very allergic to codeine, and oxycodone is a member of the codeine family, so her DO was cautious about prescribing it. But he knows she is in a great deal of pain, and he knows that Sheila is very careful, when starting a new medication. He advised her to cut a 5 mg. pill in half, and he knows she will be very observant for any allergic reactions.
So, this afternoon, I used her pill cutter and cut a 5 mg. pill in half.(thankfully, the tablet is scored, so it can easily be cut in half with a pill cutter.) So far, so good. The only thing she noticed is that she became very thirsty, and she felt some nausea. But, she hadn't had anything to eat but some Cream of Rice made with water.
She itched like crazy and her hands swelled so much on codeine, that she couldn't get her wedding ring off.
No, I'm sorry to say that she can't drink any of the nutritional drinks.
I *think* if the oxycodone doesn't cause her any allergic reactions, she may be able to eat more-although her diet must remain the same, until the time the LC goes into remission.
Rich