Hydrocodone is a powerful prescription pain reliever used to treat moderate to severe pain. It's often combined with acetaminophen and sold under brand names like Norco, Vicodin, and Lortab. While effective, it comes with serious risks — including addiction, drowsiness, and respiratory depression.

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✔ How it works to relieve pain 🔥
✔ Common side effects (nausea, dizziness, constipation)
✔ Serious risks like addiction & overdose ⚠
✔ Safety tips and warnings for use

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Your Medication Olanzapine

Olanzapine is also known as the brand name: Zyprexa and Zydis

Olanzapine comes in tablets, orally disintegrating tablets, and injectable dosage forms.

Olanzapine is most commonly used for: manifestations of schizophrenia, treatment of bipolar type I disorders, and mixed mania episodes associated with bipolar type I disorders. Olanzapine may also be used for nausea/vomiting from chemotherapy treatment, psychosis/agitation associated with dementia, PTSD, or for Tourette syndrome. Tablets are taken by mouth with or without food. Orally disintegrating tablets should be allowed to dissolve on the tongue without food or drink and should not be chewed or crushed. The injection is given as a shot into the muscle.

Standard dosing of olanzapine ranges from: 10 to 15 mg per day to a max of 60 mg

Some common side effects with olanzapine include: low blood pressure, drowsiness, headache, dry mouth, and weight gain.
Some less common side effects include: increased heart rate, low blood pressure, abnormal dreams, confusion, behavioral changes, nausea or vomiting.

Olanzapine use in adolescents 13 years and older may result in increased weight gain and sedation. Elderly patients with dementia-related psychosis treated with olanzapine have an increased chance of death.

While taking olanzapine remember it is important to tell your doctor or pharmacist if you:
• Have signs of an allergic reaction such as rash, itching, or hives
• Have chest pain or a heartbeat that does not feel normal
• Experience changes in mood or involuntary movements
• Have seizures
• Have changes in balance
• Have thoughts of hurting yourself
• Start to take new medications, vitamins, or supplements.

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A new treatment for hot flashes was just approved by the Food and Drug Administration for use.

Local 12's Liz Bonis asks the experts at TriHealth and has what you need to know about it in today's Medical Edge.

"It just comes on and you are just burning up for a little bit. Do you start to sweat, start to sweat, turn a little red," says office manager Lisa Runyan.

Lisa Runyan is a busy office manager at this women's health practice. She says when hot flashes hit, there are challenges to keeping temperatures down.

"Some of us have fans at our desk, and they are running just about all the time."

This is also just one of many reasons Doctor Vaishali Bhalani wants women to know that the medication Paroxetine, marketed under the brand name Paxil, might help.

"I think that it gives women another option. Up until now the only treatment that was available was menopausal hormone therapy," says Dr. Bhalani.

The medication has been in use for quite awhile as an antidepressant. It appears to alter a hormone known as serotonin in the body, but in this case in lower doses. The Food and Drug Administration has just approved it's use for hot flashes and that raises the question of what do you need to know about it, who should be on it and what are the side effects?

"The main side effects I think at lower doses are fatigue, being tired, as well as nausea vomiting and headache," says Dr. Bhalani.

Doctor Bhalani says those side effects generally diminish in about four few weeks and it's suggested for use in those who say menopausal symptoms really interfere with daily life.

"We do see about a good 30-60 percent reduction, depending on the dose, in menopausal hot flashes and symptoms."

Lifestyle changes such as yoga, meditation and exercise along with it, are also recommended because she also points out,

"Exercise can decrease weight,,and we know weight can lead to an increase in hot flashes."

Welcome to Medication Minute, where we provide quick, essential overviews of critical EMS drugs. In this episode, we cover Promethazine (Phenergan), a powerful antiemetic and antihistamine. Learn how to use Phenergan effectively to manage nausea and vomiting, especially when paired with pain medications like morphine. We’ll also highlight important precautions to prevent complications during IV administration.

🔑 Topics Covered:

What is Phenergan?
Indications for nausea and vomiting
Proper adult dosing: 25 mg IV
Critical safety tips: Avoiding tissue necrosis and managing burning sensation
Precautions for co-administration with pain medications
⏱ Quick Facts:

Potentiates sedation when combined with opioids
Requires dilution and slow IV administration to avoid complications
Essential for managing nausea in prehospital settings
Stay informed and ensure safe administration practices in emergency care. 🚑

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Pioglitazone, sold under the brand name Actos among others, is an anti-diabetic medication used to treat type 2 diabetes.[2] It may be used with metformin, a sulfonylurea, or insulin.[2][3] Use is recommended together with exercise and diet.[3] It is not recommended in type 1 diabetes.[3] It is taken by mouth.[3]

Common side effects include headaches, muscle pains, inflammation of the throat, and swelling.[3] Serious side effects may include bladder cancer, low blood sugar, heart failure, and osteoporosis.[3][2] Use is not recommended in pregnancy or breastfeeding.[2] It is in the thiazolidinedione (TZD) class and works by improving sensitivity of tissues to insulin.[2]

Pioglitazone was patented in 1985, and came into medical use in 1999.[4] It is available as a generic medication.[2] In 2019, it was the 179th most commonly prescribed medication in the United States, with more than 3 million prescriptions.[5][6] It was withdrawn in France and Germany in 2011.[7][8][9] Pioglitazone is used to lower blood glucose levels in type 2 diabetes either alone or in combination with a sulfonylurea, metformin, or insulin.[1] The effects of Plioglitazone have been compared in a Cochrane systematic review to that of other blood sugar lowering-medicine, including metformin, acarbose, and repaglinide, as well as with appropriate diet and exercise, not showing any benefit in reducing the chance of developing type 2 diabetes in people at risk.[10] It did, however, show reduction of risk of developing type 2 diabetes when compared to a placebo or to no treatment.[10] These results should be interpreted considering that most of the data of the studies included in this review were of low or very-low certainty.

While pioglitazone does decrease blood sugar levels, the main study that looked at the medication found no difference in the main cardiovascular outcomes that were looked at.[11] The secondary outcome of death from all causes, myocardial infarction, and stroke were lower.[11]

Pioglitazone has been found to reduce all-cause mortality in type 2 diabetic patients compared to other therapies, with a 60% reduction in mortality in those exposed to pioglitazone, compared to those never exposed.[12] Another study found an all-cause mortality hazard ratio of 0.33 for pioglitazone after adjusting for 40 covariates, compared to insulin.[13] Due to insufficient data on all-cause mortality, cardiovascular mortality, myocardial infarction and stroke, this was not possible to compare in a more recent review.[10]