After six months or so, friends and family who have supported you through the first difficult months might start to drift away and get on with their own lives â thinking that the worst should surely now be over. Your grief will begin to settle a bit like a stone in the bottom of your stomach.
In one trial of 241 women with acute cystitis, those randomly assigned to treatment with ibuprofen (400 mg three times daily for three days) had a higher mean symptom burden compared with those who received fosfomycin as a single 3 g dose [74].
Answer 1: Steroids, such as prednisone, do not increase the risk of developing acute cholecystitis. Answer 2: Meperidine is the pain medication of choice in treating acute cholecystitis, as, unlike morphine, it does not increase muscle tone at the sphincter of Oddi. Answer 3: NSAIDs, such as naproxen, have been shown to reduce the secretion of gallbladder mucin and thereby decrease the risk of developing gallstones and their ensuing complications.