RobotDevil said:

FunkiestOne said:

http://www.nydailynews.co...-1.2632248

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So the doctor did tests on Prince on the 20th and was going to PP on the 21st to give him the test results. What could this have been for? What kind of tests?

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And the doctor no longer works at the hospital so was he fired or resigned in the last two weeks??

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Well, since we don't yet know for sure what medical problems Prince may have had besides the chronic pain and addiction issues, any guess as to what tests may have been done are as good as any other guess.

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Tests that I'd assume that were likely done were checking his electrolytes (not eating properly or drinking enough can mess with those, as can viruses, medications, all sorts of things...and an imbalance in your electrolytes can cause lot of problems in and of itself), probably checking his blood counts. Those are only a couple basic tests that for someone in Prince's situation of precarious health, a decent doctor would monitor. But again, any other tests? Who can guess? We don't have enough answers to the big questions to even try to guess at the answers to related questions like which tests might have been run.

Yes indeed. If your electrolytes get too low the heart can stop. I have had issues with my kidneys so I use electrolyte supplements to make sure my potassium does not drop too low. Our cells need them.

Prince could have had major nutritional defiencies such as anemia and low sodium in blood. He barely ate.

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cardinal said:

thinking of him in this kind of debilitating pain, and dying from an avoidable combo of meds just as he was actively seeking care for himself just rips my heart out.

no matter what we find out, i still love him. i hope it was quick and painless

Mkilpatrick74 said:

Until the the results of the Autopsy we won't know but as I look at things that happened over the course of the last few years, and his change in look and seeing the aging and gaunt look in many photos I am seeing, I think Prince knew he was dieing, and I don't think the Hip Pain was the issue. Listening to doctors talk about "toxicology" and things like that, they already know the cause if it was "an OD" or "combination of drugs" heart disease heart attack etc... all of these things they would have know within 72 hours or even sooner.

Mkilpatrick74 said:

TheEnglishGent said:

Bohemian67 said:

I hate this thread and the details. Just nothing makes sense and the elevator business drives me nuts.

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Prince tweets 'despite Influenza the planet is still priceless' - strange connection I find if it's only flu.

Then the rumours are that he was 'unconscious' literally a few hours after his concert and that it was an opiod overdose? What? Prince on opiods? Can barely believe it. Could it be that mixed witht he concert adrenalin and heavy painkillers that it was too much and he lost consciousness? Still honestly unbelievable.

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The heavy pain killers were the opioids.

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I know, just hate using the word. But can adrenalin mixed with strong you know whats affect a dosage? My question is why, if Prince had a close scare on the flight taking medication would he continue to use medication without being under hospital care?

Mkilpatrick74 said:

cardinal said:

and your dr is the exact kind of dr prince needed. dr drew said i think that same day that if a dr is giving a patient "special treatment"because of their fame, then they are getting crappy care. yes, it is getting sadder by the minute. and i fear it will just get worse. paul stanley tweeted out that when you have that kind of hip pain, the pain never ends (he had a double hip replacement to relieve his pain) and that we shouldn't be judging. (tears)

Gosh, he is soooooo right. The pain is relentless. My mom is in excruciating pain BC she needs double hip replacement. It breaks my heart but she is terrified of surgery BC more often than not, the pain doesn't get much better. She also suffered a heart attack and drug induced kidney failure without warning. Guess what caused that??? The stupid Tylenol in her pain meds. My pain Dr flipped out after my last back surgery (#10) when surgeon had me on percocst instead of my usual straight oxycodone. She said be could have killed me BC my body built such a tolerance over the years and be thought he was helping me by giving me my higher dose but moving to percocet. Thank God I got back under her care within 6 weeks post op, she prob saved my life. None of the other overdoses have phased me but this..this has bit home. People need educated for sure. Prince wasn't an afdict, his body was tolerant and dependent and he just didn't want to hurt any longer. God, I know how that feels. So glad we have this forum to discuss. Love to u all! Keep talking about this, it could save a life and help more people be less judgemental towards those like Prince and myself who struggle with chronic, disabling BUT invisible pain.

Thanks so much for sharing.

headtripparade said:

There was only one doctor and perhaps only a very recent spike in opiod use? How does that mesh with reaching out to the California addiction/pain specialist?

TMZ Reports

A doctor who treated Prince, wrote him prescriptions and was present at Paisley Park when the singer died has mysteriously left the medical center where he worked.

Cops obtained a search warrant for North Memorial Medical Center where Dr. Michael Todd Schulernberg worked. The warrant asks for all medical records, documents, reports, charts, photos, prescriptions, doctor’s notes and medical notes for Prince Rogers Nelson.

According to the warrant, cops interviewed Dr. Schulernberg, who acknowledged he treated Prince twice in April … the last time the day before he died. The doctor told cops he ran tests on the singer and he was at Paisley Park the day Prince died to drop off the test results.

The doctor also told cops he prescribed medications for Prince, which were supposed to be filled at Walgreens.

TMZ broke the story … Prince had gone to Walgreens 4 times in the week preceding his death. The warrant mentions the plane trip where Prince OD’d 6 days before his death. We broke the story about the emergency landing and that the drug was Percocet.

We’ve learned Dr. Schulernberg has disappeared from the roster at North Memorial … he no longer works there. It’s unclear why.

http://askkissy.com/2016/...z48MrtTcl7

What the heck is this? Wow!

Astasheiks said:

BREAKING– PRINCE’S DOCTOR IS MISSING AFTER DEA ISSUED A WARRANT

TMZ Reports

A doctor who treated Prince, wrote him prescriptions and was present at Paisley Park when the singer died has mysteriously left the medical center where he worked.

Cops obtained a search warrant for North Memorial Medical Center where Dr. Michael Todd Schulernberg worked. The warrant asks for all medical records, documents, reports, charts, photos, prescriptions, doctor’s notes and medical notes for Prince Rogers Nelson.

According to the warrant, cops interviewed Dr. Schulernberg, who acknowledged he treated Prince twice in April … the last time the day before he died. The doctor told cops he ran tests on the singer and he was at Paisley Park the day Prince died to drop off the test results.

The doctor also told cops he prescribed medications for Prince, which were supposed to be filled at Walgreens.

TMZ broke the story … Prince had gone to Walgreens 4 times in the week preceding his death. The warrant mentions the plane trip where Prince OD’d 6 days before his death. We broke the story about the emergency landing and that the drug was Percocet.

We’ve learned Dr. Schulernberg has disappeared from the roster at North Memorial … he no longer works there. It’s unclear why.

http://askkissy.com/2016/...z48MrtTcl7

What the heck is this? Wow!

Sounds like he is "missing" from the roster of the hospital. TMZ is really shamless on how they use language to spin things.

headtripparade said:

TMZ has just reported that so far the investigation has yielded the single doctor prescribing the pills and no aliases. That would mean that this downward spiral happened so quickly the DEA hadn't even been able to flag it in their every day prescription monitoring of the pharmacies. So on what planet would he have cause to suddenly start chewing down so many at a time that he ODs not one but twice, the final time being fatal? [Edited 5/11/16 9:03am] [Edited 5/11/16 9:04am]

Doesn't this mean that whatever pain management medication he might have used was legit?

FunkiestOne said:

Astasheiks said:

BREAKING– PRINCE’S DOCTOR IS MISSING AFTER DEA ISSUED A WARRANT

TMZ Reports

A doctor who treated Prince, wrote him prescriptions and was present at Paisley Park when the singer died has mysteriously left the medical center where he worked.

Cops obtained a search warrant for North Memorial Medical Center where Dr. Michael Todd Schulernberg worked. The warrant asks for all medical records, documents, reports, charts, photos, prescriptions, doctor’s notes and medical notes for Prince Rogers Nelson.

According to the warrant, cops interviewed Dr. Schulernberg, who acknowledged he treated Prince twice in April … the last time the day before he died. The doctor told cops he ran tests on the singer and he was at Paisley Park the day Prince died to drop off the test results.

The doctor also told cops he prescribed medications for Prince, which were supposed to be filled at Walgreens.

TMZ broke the story … Prince had gone to Walgreens 4 times in the week preceding his death. The warrant mentions the plane trip where Prince OD’d 6 days before his death. We broke the story about the emergency landing and that the drug was Percocet.

We’ve learned Dr. Schulernberg has disappeared from the roster at North Memorial … he no longer works there. It’s unclear why.

http://askkissy.com/2016/...z48MrtTcl7

What the heck is this? Wow!

Sounds like he is "missing" from the roster of the hospital. TMZ is really shamless on how they use language to spin things.

T M Z was celebratory when MJ died and i am getting the same vibe with their P coverage. It hadn't been a week and they were kinda moking P. The aids stuff came from a T M Z linked site.

paulludvig said:

paulludvig said:

headtripparade said:

TMZ has just reported that so far the investigation has yielded the single doctor prescribing the pills and no aliases. That would mean that this downward spiral happened so quickly the DEA hadn't even been able to flag it in their every day prescription monitoring of the pharmacies. So on what planet would he have cause to suddenly start chewing down so many at a time that he ODs not one but twice, the final time being fatal? [Edited 5/11/16 9:03am] [Edited 5/11/16 9:04am]

Doesn't this mean that whatever pain management medication he might have used was legit?

Were we expecting otherwise?

TheEnglishGent said:

paulludvig said:

Doesn't this mean that whatever pain management medication he might have used was legit?

Were we expecting otherwise?

Some people certainly were.

paulludvig said:

cardinal said:

paulludvig said:

Mkilpatrick74 said:

cardinal said:

paulludvig said:

Some people certainly were.

so if the scripts were,legit, and i believe and hope they were, why last night the parade of federal agents to pillage his home? certainly the could have determined this already from dr and pharmacy records that he was taking meds prescribed to him. why the dog and pony show? i am so confused..l.

Maybe the DEA departement wants to de SEEN doing a thorough job. Politics, you know.

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cardinal said:

paulludvig said:

Some people certainly were.

so if the scripts were,legit, and i believe and hope they were, why last night the parade of federal agents to pillage his home? certainly the could have determined this already from dr and pharmacy records that he was taking meds prescribed to him. why the dog and pony show? i am so confused..l.

Perhaps this was their theory all along, but they want to rule out the possibility of his receiving prescriptions from another source? Hence the extensive search?

terrig said:

farnorth said:

Mkilpatrick74 said:

Mkilpatrick74 said:

nursev said:

Any time u have more than one doctor seeing a client there is a potential for problems. I bet Prince was taking prescriptions from both the detox doctor and the family practice MD and the medications were incompatible. Its sounds like he may have had some type of adverse reaction and it killed him. My poor baby Too much going on and too many people with their hands on him.

I'm curious who was gonna give him the suboxone in Dr backpack that morning. Nine of them legally able to do so. Not even that family Dr.

Prince was scheduled to visit another doctor that morning. Andrew Kornfeld (the California Dr's son) was supposed take Prince to visit this other doctor to get him checked out. I think that other doctor was certified to administer the suboxone.

cardinal said:

paulludvig said:

Some people certainly were.

so if the scripts were,legit, and i believe and hope they were, why last night the parade of federal agents to pillage his home? certainly the could have determined this already from dr and pharmacy records that he was taking meds prescribed to him. why the dog and pony show? i am so confused..l.

Not sure that just because he didn't have aliases and that there weren't multiple doctors prescribing these meds means that they were in fact "legit". Not sure having (4) prescriptions filled ina week's time would classify as "legit". Think the investigation at this point is around the OVER PRESCRIBING of these medicines. And if that's the case, there'll be nothing "legit" about them IMO...