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<blockquote data-quote="Fran" data-source="post: 181138" data-attributes="member: 3"><p>Wend, the elderly are a whole basket of similar symptoms for a whole basket of diseases related to aging. Add their varying ability to handle strong pain medications and there is a lot of symptoms without clear cut diagnosis. Add mini strokes then you get inaccurate history of symptoms. </p><p>It is not unusual to use dilaudid for back and nerve pain. </p><p>Certainly they need to do a baseline which is remove all pain medications and start over as to what came first the pain or the confusion. </p><p></p><p>If her bones are detiorating at such a rapid rate that she suddenly has become hunched over then there is a starting point. I'm not sure the baker's cyst is the issue as much as the trigger. She may have started walking differently to ease the knee pain which in turned messed with her spine. Just a thought. </p><p></p><p>If it were me, I would do a written timeline of her medical history so that she can give it to a gerontologist for a thorough evaluation. </p><p>Guessing what it could be is not very accurate with the elderly. They are not just like us any more than children are mini adults. It is a specialty that has to be treated with specialists. in my humble opinion.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Fran, post: 181138, member: 3"] Wend, the elderly are a whole basket of similar symptoms for a whole basket of diseases related to aging. Add their varying ability to handle strong pain medications and there is a lot of symptoms without clear cut diagnosis. Add mini strokes then you get inaccurate history of symptoms. It is not unusual to use dilaudid for back and nerve pain. Certainly they need to do a baseline which is remove all pain medications and start over as to what came first the pain or the confusion. If her bones are detiorating at such a rapid rate that she suddenly has become hunched over then there is a starting point. I'm not sure the baker's cyst is the issue as much as the trigger. She may have started walking differently to ease the knee pain which in turned messed with her spine. Just a thought. If it were me, I would do a written timeline of her medical history so that she can give it to a gerontologist for a thorough evaluation. Guessing what it could be is not very accurate with the elderly. They are not just like us any more than children are mini adults. It is a specialty that has to be treated with specialists. in my humble opinion. [/QUOTE]
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