11. In an epidural, pain medicine is fed through a catheter into a space along the spine. 12. It is not a pain medicine. 13. Its Tylenol has been the most popular pain medicine and the best-selling over-the-counter drug, but sales are declining. 14. Morrison said the difference may have occurred because patients with dementia cannot ask for pain medicine, and doctors and nurses may not realize that they are suffering. 15. My pain medicine never came. 16. Now, some advocates are trying to swing the pendulum in the other direction, by pressing authorities to punish doctors for not using pain medicine aggressively enough. 17. Pain medicine led to more pain medicine and booze. 18. Pain medicine would help for the short term, the doctor said. 19. Researchers, writing in a recent Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, said smokers healed to a lesser degree and also needed more pain medicine. 20. The flaw was the crossover of many women from a control group, which received narcotic pain medicine, into the epidural group because they wanted better pain relief. |