The patient is a 55-year-old man with a history of smoking and a left sided hemisphere stroke, who underwent a right-sided femoral to popliteal bypass graft in February of 1986 for severe claudication. He was readmitted in March of 1988 for increase in pain in the calves and again in February of 1988 for graft stenosis and underwent angioplasty. He presented in July of 1989 with progressive pain and three months of rest pain in the right calf and claudication of the left calf. He also has a history of chest pain, esophageal reflux, anxiety disorder, chronic low back pain, peptic ulcer disease, herniated nucleus pulposus, and cholecystectomy. On admission, medications included Pepcid, 40 mg at h.s.; trazodone, 15 mg at h.s.; Carafate, one q.i.d.; nitroglycerin p.r.n. and Flexeril, 10 mg q eight hours p.r.n. back pain. Allergies include QUESTION OF PENICILLIN AND QUESTION OF DYE. He was taken to the Operating Room in March of 1990 for a right reverse saphenous bypass graft from the in situ vein graft to below the knee popliteal artery, and discharged with excellent palpable pulses.
What medications has the patient ever tried for back pain prevention
nitroglycerin p.r.n. and Flexeril, 10 mg q eight hours p.r.n. back pain.