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Joined: Oct 2012 Posts: 1,275 Likes: 7 | Hi Murphy,
Great to hear you're doing well. I have put ice cream as well as honey in the Ensure to make it tolerable. But it's important to brush your teeth well afterwards.
If you cut the hydrocodone in half, you're really taking only half of the prescribed amount; maybe that's why you couldn't do it. I have heard of people who shave a little off a pill, they do this progressively, so that they are very slowly taking less and less. Maybe that will help while you are waiting to see the addictive pain specialist. Hydrocodone, I have been told, is ten times stronger than morphine. That's why it's difficult to get off it all at once.
Gloria
She stood in the storm, and when the wind did not blow her way, she adjusted her sails... Elizabeth Edwards
Wife to John,dx 10/2012, BOT, HPV+, T3N2MO, RAD 70 gy,Cisplatinx2 , PEG in Dec 6, 2012, dx dvt in both legs after second chemo session, Apr 03/13 NED, July 2013 met to lungs, Phase 1 immunotherapy trial Jan 18/14 to July/14. Taxol/carboplatin July/14. Esophagus re-opened Oct 14. PEG out April 8, 2015. Phase 2 trial of Selinexor April to July 2015. At peace Jan 15, 2016.
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