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Overmedication with cancer and other conditions
Head & Neck Cancer | Last Active: Sep 23, 2018 | Replies (62)Comment receiving replies
Indiana Scott - you bring up another interesting point regarding medications. When you have multiple doctors involved in the care of one patient meds can get confusing. Each doctor is 'tasked' with certain duties for a patient. In the case of cancer, it's curing cancer and sometimes that seems to be at the exclusion of other concerns (sometimes). It's their job and 'ego' to cure or get cancer in remission. At times that can be at the cost of side effects from drugs or other conditions that send you off to another type of doctor. Of course, not all doctors think so singularly.........some do consider the side effects and long term effects of treatments and medications. But I do believe any patient either needs a caretaker or support person in their corner or if they're on their own.....a group like this that gives them multiple perspectives. I liked your "Kramer v. Kramer" analogy. I've hit that point a couple of times myself!
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Individualized treatment........that is so correct. It is wonderful that Mayo is trending toward that direction. Not sure it is easy to find with medical care everywhere.
Try cosco for cheap cheap medication cost and pharmacy review free. You don’t have to be a member either to use drug service. I would like to shout it from the rooftops ‘ try this please
Thanks for the information. I have a prescription drug plan and can only use Walgreen's. I'm an exec member at Costco. Will Costco review my drugs if I don't get my prescriptions there? I'm very surprised and somewhat appalled that Mayo requires a copy of prescriptions at each visit and then doesn't review them.
Judy Long
@jaler the nurse reviews them with you, or does with us anyway, but they don't know what interacts with what. That's a pharmacist's job.
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Good points, @cindylb In one regard we were 'lucky' (I know it is an extremely odd word for me to use here) in that we all knew it was the brain cancer that would ultimate win the war my wife was waging. As such her neuro-oncologist took a strongly focused approach to her care based on this knowledge. That said, I will quickly add I know cancer is an incredibly unique disease, which effects each patient differently, and to which each patient responds in their own manner. One size definitely does not fit all when it comes to this beast.
Strength, courage, and peace!