Doesn't listen to her friends and keeps drinkingShe ignores her friends' advice and keeps on drinking alcohol. Along with her pain medication and her caffeine over consumption she notices symptoms of anxiety, heart palpitations and tremor building up again. She contacts her cardiologist and discuss her symptoms. He says that these are side effects of high caffeine doses and NSAIDs which could lead to arrhythmias and acute kidney injury. He says that she should immediately limite her coffee consumption to 1 cup per day (at least for a couple of weeks until her heart rate normalizes) and talk to her GP and/or rheumatologist about her pain management and possible other pain treatments because NSAIDs may be responsible for her symptoms, also. Msr AP realizes that her bad lifestyle choices and could have had a much more serious impact on her health. |
Map: 4. Hand Osteoarthritis pain management scenario (865)
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