Opioid Medications

[SweetSydney]

I have MS, severe nerve & back pain.

Are any of the opioid medications, safe to use with Lymphocytic Colitis?

TIA

Sydney

[tex]

Hi Sydney,

As far as I'm aware, none of the opioid painkillers have any adverse effects on LC symptoms. The fact that they slow down motility means that they can even be helpful. Of course as you probably know, one has to be aware of the risk of impaction when taking narcotic painkillers, but other than that, they shouldn't have an adverse effect on your LC.

Incidentally, are you aware of this recent research discovery?

Multiple Sclerosis Cause Finally Receives Answers

Tex

[SweetSydney]

Hi Sydney,

As far as I'm aware, none of the opioid painkillers have any adverse effects on LC symptoms. The fact that they slow down motility means that they can even be helpful. Of course as you probably know, one has to be aware of the risk of impaction when taking narcotic painkillers, but other than that, they shouldn't have an adverse effect on your LC.

Incidentally, are you aware of this recent research discovery?

Multiple Sclerosis Cause Finally Receives Answers

Tex

Hi, Tex.

Thank you -the pain management doctor had suggested trying an opioid & I wanted to find out if it was safe, before asking for a 'script from my DO next Monday.

Thank you for the link to the article about MS. It's interesting, because I had a severe G.I. infection, 25 years ago-doctors could never identify it though.

Sydney

[tex]

It's interesting, because I had a severe G.I. infection, 25 years ago-doctors could never identify it though.

Was that before your MS diagnosis? If so, do you remember how long before?

Tex

[SweetSydney]

It's interesting, because I had a severe G.I. infection, 25 years ago-doctors could never identify it though.

Was that before your MS diagnosis? If so, do you remember how long before?

Tex

Yes, that was before my MS was diagnosed. My MS was only diagnosed in November of 2011-but my MS Specialist said, based on my symptoms, she believed I have had MS since at least, 1998.

My husband commented to me, after we read the article, how I always ate steak, very undercooked.

[tex]

Hmmmmm. That's interesting.

Tex

[SweetSydney]

Hmmmmm. That's interesting.

Tex

I suspect that I have had MS, longer than since 1998.

And what is really strange, is quite some time time ago, I developed an aversion to meat.

[tex]

Do you react to meat? Have you ever heard of mammalian meat allergy? It's a rare condition caused by an infection that can result from a tick bite that leads to an allergy to the only sugar (carbohydrate) allergy known to science (virtually all other allergic reactions are directed against proteins). The reaction is against a carbohydrate in meat known as galactose-alpha-1,3-galactose (commonly abbreviated as alpha-gal). Here's some more information on the condition:

http://allergytomeat.wordpress.com/freq ... questions/

This might be somehow connected with Lyme disease:

For a look at how common alpha-gal reactions were in other populations, the researchers also screened blood from 143 healthy blood donors in the greater Stockholm area, where tick bites are common, and from 207 patients with confirmed Lyme disease from recent tick bites.

As many as 10% showed IgE antibodies to alpha-gal in that general Stockholm population and 22% did in the tick-borne infection group.

IgE levels high enough to be considered alpha-gal sensitization were more common in the Lyme disease group, though (22% versus 3%, P=0.005), "which strengthens the role of tick bites for the induction of IgE to alpha-gal."

http://www.medpagetoday.com/AllergyImmu ... ergy/43210

Here's the full research article that Medpage article is based on:

http://www.jacionline.org/article/S0091 ... 7/fulltext

Tex

[SweetSydney]

Do you react to meat? Have you ever heard of mammalian meat allergy? It's a rare condition caused by an infection that can result from a tick bite that leads to an allergy to the only sugar (carbohydrate) allergy known to science (virtually all other allergic reactions are directed against proteins). The reaction is against a carbohydrate in meat known as galactose-alpha-1,3-galactose (commonly abbreviated as alpha-gal). Here's some more information on the condition:

http://allergytomeat.wordpress.com/freq ... questions/

This might be somehow connected with Lyme disease:

For a look at how common alpha-gal reactions were in other populations, the researchers also screened blood from 143 healthy blood donors in the greater Stockholm area, where tick bites are common, and from 207 patients with confirmed Lyme disease from recent tick bites.

As many as 10% showed IgE antibodies to alpha-gal in that general Stockholm population and 22% did in the tick-borne infection group.

IgE levels high enough to be considered alpha-gal sensitization were more common in the Lyme disease group, though (22% versus 3%, P=0.005), "which strengthens the role of tick bites for the induction of IgE to alpha-gal."

http://www.medpagetoday.com/AllergyImmu ... ergy/43210

Here's the full research article that Medpage article is based on:

http://www.jacionline.org/article/S0091 ... 7/fulltext

Tex

No, Tex, don't react to react to meat, I only developed a distate for it-esp. red meat.

However, I am going to read the information in the links, you so kindly provided.