/ Dee's email to neuropathic pain/slides

[Guest guest]

Hi ,

You are absolutely correct – that is exactly how Heath

Ledger died. It is very easy to use too many of the same type of drugs. And I am

sure he didn’t know this. He probably took a pill because he couldn’t

sleep, and then maybe he had a bad headache (drinking??), so he woke up and took

a pill for that, and maybe took another sleeping pill. And because it was available

to him, it wasn’t an aspirin for his pain. And after sleeping for awhile

and waking up and still having pain, he took something else. And two pills is

always better than one … And after taking that much medication, he was not

mentally conscious enough to count how many hours it had been since he took the

last pill. I can see very easily how happened to him. That is why the DEA is

cracking down so hard on physicians prescribing these drugs. I know my primary

care doctor will not prescribe narcotics, which is why I go to a pain

management doctor. It is going to become harder and harder to get narcotics if

any more of these high profile people die from taking too many drugs. I belong

to a chronic pain group, and people are very worried about this as, for example

– someone is in a bad car accident, they are put back together, they are

alive, but they are in incurable pain for the rest of their lives. They need

these medications, but it is becoming harder and harder for them to get them.

nne

From:

VulvarDisorders [mailto:VulvarDisorders ] On

Behalf Of Mace

Sent: Sunday, March 30, 2008 3:06 PM

To: VulvarDisorders

Subject: Heath Ledger? Re: Dee's email to neuropathic pain/slides

I just suddenly wondered if this is what happened to Heath Ledger. I

thought he died because of using drugs that enhanced the effects of

other drugs.

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> Ativan enhances the effects of some other drugs so if you took pain

medication

> and it didn't help and then take ativan it can cause the pain

medication to work

> better. But your doctor should approve it.

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> Ora

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