A family member is suffering from the pain of cancer.  Fenadryl is 100 times more powerful than is Morphine, and is used in surgery, so why isn't it in a tablet form for people who suffer needlessly with cancer/AIDs deaths?
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They do use fentanyl.  It's called "Duragesic patch" and is applied topically.  As far as I know, fentanyl is not available orally.  Duragesic patch is for long acting pain, and oral morphine may be required in addition.  Plus, morphine is much cheaper than fentanyl patch.  That may be the real answer to your question.
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Because these medications can damage the kidneys and liver is why people want medical marijuana to be legalized.  It is supposed to be very helpful with arthritis, as well as a great number of other ailments.\n\nI'm assuming that that's not the answer you are looking for, so why not ask the doctor for meds that are less harmful, look into herbal remedies, and see what type of exercise (or physical therapy) might help.\n\nI wish your father well.
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Because the Medication may very well have a Depressant Effect Similar to Alcohol. Also, if the Medication in Question was Consumed Prior to Operation of Heavy Machinery, and an Accident were to Occur, with No Warning Stated on the Label, a Lawsuit against the Meds.Maker may Very Well Happen . The Lawyers are Out There!
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I agree with you to a large degree. Personally I believe the tradition treatments, chemo and/or radiation..cause more problems are are ineffective. In alot of cases the patient dies as a result of complications of the treatment, not from the actual disease. Yes, diet...I think an organic diet makes a huge difference, putting more chemicals into a body that is struggling doesnt make a lot of sense. Alot of the meds, even pain meds like morphine, tend to produce angiogenesis in cancer cells and spread the tumors. Im a big believer in the budwig diet and I'm a big believer in meditation and visualisation. I do believe there are alot of other things you can also do to help. For example, biophosponate to stop the spread to bones...blocking the FE+ receptors..cancer cells need iron to divide and multiply, blocking the FE+ receptors deprives them of iron and they cant continue to divide and muliply..there is a chemical in anti-malarial meds that does this. I also strongly believe in Qigong - powerful chinese med to bolster the immune system. Oxidisation treatment, hyperbaric chamber...Dendric cell therapy .. IPT (Insulin Potentiation Therapy), Ultra Violet treatment...there is so much.  Good on you for looking further than the traditional!
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Sixteen years ago Glaxo-Klein first started it's larger spending on lobbyists to make sure that marijuana was kept illegal in this country.  Why?  Because a study the year before found that smoking just a tiny tiny bit would eradicate a headache within seconds.  Yes.....Seconds.  Marijuana is one of the most efficient pain killers that we have on the planet today and there is test after test after test proving so... And now, between the big four pharm. companies, they spent over 100Million last year alone to get laws passed or trials for medical marijuana overturned.  Pot can help AIDS patients for 20.00 dollars a month more so that someone spending 500 dollars a month on pharm. drugs.  I could go on and on, but you get the picture.  be well, be high, Jack
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With any occupation, incompetence exist! That is why everyone stresses get second and third opinions! I would report that doctor to your states medical board for investigation! You might save someone else's life! My wife's parents both died from cancer and in my opinion it was the doctor who treated them! As we all know, money is the driving force behind everything in America. Moral values went out the window many moons ago! So, it is in the medical communities best interest to drag you through the quagmire of brutal treatment so they can capitalize on your pain and suffering! Let's face the facts, if they gave us the cure (which they do have) doctors would lose surgery and treatment fees, hospitals would lose all those chemo treatment cost, surgical fees, etc, pharmaceutical companies would loose all those prescription drug incomes and so on! The whole thing boils down to how much people are making! \nWish you the best of luck for a full recovery and a long life!
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Dexatrim used to work fairly well. It contained pseudaephedrine which caused a numbness of the tongue which decreased the urge to eat.  The FDA took off the market all products containing pseudaephedrine because it was used to make crystal meth.  Buying it now, would be a waste of money.
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Drugs are more powerful and could be used to self medicate If people wanted to.That would NEVER happen because the pharmaceutical company's would not let it.Its all about MONEY,Good Luck to you,"The smoker you drink" Take care!Alcohol is responsible for 50% of every thing considered negative in this country.And nearly 60% of the murders,and traffic deaths.Drugs don`t even come close to the destruction caused by booze!
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interesting how that works huh. christians think its god healing them, they have know knowledge of the human body and how anti-bodies work, what makes us well. they use medicine and still claim god did all the work... last i recalled medicine was made by man. ud think if it WAS god, they wouldnt need to go to the doctors or the hospitals. when diagnosed with cancer their god should be able to heal it without chemotherapy?
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No, I do not believe there is a cure for cancer.\n\nIt would be impossible for every government in every country to keep this a secret and if it ever came out the goverment would be overthrown in an instant.\n\nMedication for cancer treatment is very expensive and in the UK for instance, the NHS (government) has to pay for this.  Although this is taken from our NI Contributions it would be silly for the government to spend its own money on drugs if there was an ultimate cure.\n\nThere are always going to be new medications that cost more which are not always available to everyone but thats just the way of the world.\n\nMy mother died of cancer last April after beating it twice before and she spent months and months in hospital, costing the NHS and government tens of thousands of pounds so if there was some superdrug they certainly would have saved themselves a few quid by giving it to her.
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Because drug companies are not looking for a cure, they are looking for a band aid pill.  Something that you have to buy over and over and over and over and over, called a "maintenance" drug.  They are the biggest drug dealers in the world.
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ginger tea is good for nausea.  chemo doesn't help pain, it kills cancer cells.  need to talk to doc about stronger pain meds
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I am a nurse.. i would never assist someone to die but i did stop someone's morphine so they could go!! i felt horrible the next day i was working in Labor and Delivery.. it was hard
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Because that's exactly what hospice is- comfort measures only, and IV fluids aren't considered comfort measures.  They usually only write orders for pain medications to keep patients comfortable in their final days at home. They can give her meds to control her nausea, or you can ask your doctor to have her admitted to the hospital, where she will get IV fluids, but hospice won't do them in the home setting.  That's just not how they operate.
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The doctor's, pharmacies, and various other organizations make too much money without a cure. Think of all the money they would lose on pills, treatments, ect. if there was a cure. It isn't just AIDS/HIV, it is the same with cancers and other deadly diseases as well.
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There isn't a cure, and there may never be.  Some cancers have really good therapies (ie testicular cancer, childhood leukemia).  Some really don't, ie pancreatic, glioblastoma.  Some cancers still kill within 1-2 years, and this hasn't changed in decades.  But many are more treatable now.  AIDS has alot of drugs for treatment, but it's actually hard to prevent people from getting AIDS (vaccines difficulties) or to root out HIV (antiviral difficulties).  All we can do really is keep it from spreading.  Maybe in a few more decades we can do this.  Cancer will always be a problem because you won't know you have it until it's too late, since most people don't do checkups for every type of cancer out there every year.  Maybe in the future we'll have a blood test that can tell if you have any type (or 99% of them) of cancer.  ALot of work is going into that, including some that our lab is doing.  But believe me there is no vast consipracy; but you can make the arguement that potentially life saving drugs are not on the market because the regulatory hurdles are too high or they won't make a profit.  Drugs cost billions to get FDA approved, and unless they are going to benefit alot of people pharma companies aren't going to bother with them.  That's economics, it's not a conspiracy.  If we didn't have such huge requirements then there would be alot more drugs available, and alot more people will die from them.
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Absolutely not. Did you know that the pharmaceutical industry takes in more money than all other industries combined? They have a drug for every symptom a person could possibly have. Whatever happened to "sweating it out"? Maybe we'd be a healthier people if we didn't take so many pills. They want us to be scared of natural plants (marijuana: which is given to people with cancer and aids) but they want to cram all kinds of lab-created drugs down our throats. They make me sick (please excuse the pun).