61 year old male with a history of diabetes, neuropathy, BPH presents complaining of not being able to sleep well at night. He states that he has been diagnosed with BPH and hasn’t wanted to be treated because it hasn’t been that bad. His current meds...
Midodrine is an alpha agonist. I had an elderly male patient recently started on this medication due to orthostasis. He was not receiving any other medications that would be likely to lower blood pressure. This particular patient had a history of BPH which he was...
78 year old male who is on chronic opioid therapy for back pain as well as Tylenol PM one tablet at bedtime for sleep. This gentleman had been struggling with constipation issues and had been taking Colace 100 mg daily for prevention. This was not working well enough...
78 year old male on a hefty list of medications. The major issue to resolve was a rash that had started about 3-4 weeks ago and was spreading nearly all over the body. I was asked to help out with the case by looking over the meds. There had already been a couple...
85 year old male with a recent operation for a knee replacement was discharged on hydrocodone/APAP 5/325 1-2 every four hours as needed as well as Vistaril (hydroxyzine) 25-50 mg every six hours as needed for pain management. Within a couple days of significant prn...
Tonight’s dose involves trying to prevent the unnecessary use of medications! I’ve come across this type of situation a few different times and just wanted to share it with you all. Patient gets diagnosed with a UTI and started on an antibiotic – pretty...
