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ll too often, seniors accept medications or anti-depressants. These chronic pain as something that drugs change the way that the body they “must live with.” While the most senses pain. common treatments for At NOTRE DAME pain (such as acetaminoLONG TERM CARE phen and non-steroidal CENTER, we will review anti-inflammatory drugs all critical information like aspirin, ibuprofen, regarding our seniors’ and naproxen) may be care to assure that their effective, long-term use is care is always performed associated with potential in their best interest. To side effects such as gastrolearn more about us and intestinal bleeding and what we offer our seniors, liver toxicity. The fact is contact us today at (508) that these drugs may be 852-3011, and visit our sidestepped altogether conveniently located seMariAnn Paladino, when it comes to treatnior community at 559 Director of Admissions ing “neuropathic pain,” Plantation Street. We which is pain caused by are here for you. nerves of mechanisms in the spinal P.S. Such drugs as Neurontin (an anticord or brain that result in the percepseizure medication) and Elavil (an antition of pain even though the source depressant) relieve neuropathic pain by of the pain may be long gone. Neuroshort-circuiting nerve-impulse signals pathic pain may respond to non-analfrom the brain. gesic medications such as anti-seizure
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