I have a new appreciation of MORPHINE

I spend 7.5 hours yesterday hooked up to an IV getting fluids and meds. The morphine, in particular was appreciated.

the kind of IV with the magic button?? I had that one and you could push the button and when you heard a ding, all was groovy!!! Would only dispense on a timer, so you couldn't over medicate yourself. :hi:

The nurse had to give it to me. Three doses.

i asked for a to go bag for the 'left overs'...no go :-(

I was just happy I didn't have a long wait. I went early in the morning. I was in a treatment room within 1/2 hour. I thought, "So much for the ER long wait horror stories." There were lots of people in the waiting room when I left. I couldn't believe they left me in my own private room for so long.

It's that good...

lol

That sounds very heavy, my dear! Would you like to share just WHY you needed all that?

I'm glad the morphine worked for you, no matter why you needed it!


:loveya:

not being able to eat or drink, throwing up and not sleeping I'd had enough. Cramps believe it or not. Sometimes I get them REALLY bad.

On the upside, I had a piece of toast last night. The first thing I've kept down since Monday.

3 days? You are made of very strong stuff, IMHO.....

I knew you got them badly, but 3 days is enough to send a strong man weeping over the edge....

Please take care.....



:loveya: :hug:

I thought I was feeling better, so I went into work. But apparently, doing a job is much more taxing than being in bed. duh. After about 40 minutes, they sent me to the first aid room. They wanted to take me to the hospital, they were convinced it was appendicitis. I said it wasn't.

After about 1 1/2 I was able to convince them that I could drive home. (They offered to take me, but I didn't want to leave my car.)

On the way home, I thought I should stop at a grocery store to get some crackers and cup-a-soup. I asked the first staff person I saw if they could get the items for me. She took one look at me, and got me a chair and some water AND called the manager. By this time I was bawling - partially because of the pain, and partially because they were being so nice and I NEEDED to be taken care of at the moment. They wanted to call an ambulance. I convinced them that I was OK to get home.

:-( I'm glad you're feeling better now.:hug:

Do you have fibroids or endometriosis? I have had both of them but since a surgery in April 2003 I have been a lot better.

I hope you can get some relief soon. Take care. :hug:

Although I went through 2 surgeries - one after a trip to the ER (that time, my ovary ruptured). Now it's preventive treatment with estrogen. Cramps virtually disappeared after that.

I hope you feel better, and find a good OB/GYN to help you. :hug:

that, no matter what the Old Testament nutcases tell you.

Get a good work up with a GYN who specializes in pelvic disease issues, not just babies. Sometimes OB GYNs just get tired of the baby delivering rat race and change the focus of their practice.

If you lived in Fort Worth, I would send you to my wonderful doctor who just does not want any of us to suffer from undue pain, bleeding, inconvenience or other unnecessary miseries. I LOVE HIM!!!!

There are many wonderful treatments out there which can help you immensely..from the simple birth control pill to laser surgery to kill all the little endometries that cause all that pain.

You may have fibroids, as another poster suggested. You may have what is called a "chocolate cyst" ..your ovary is covered in endometrial tissue which grows along with the stuff that is actually IN your uterus and it plasters itself all over the abdomen, and it grows and sheds, causing really horrible pain. I had it, Rev Cheeshead had it, Fudge Stripe just got over an operation for it. NOT FUN>

Better living through science, I always say.

There are people out there who can help you, but you have to be proactive in finding them.

The endometrial tissue invades normal tissue, and attaches itself to anything it can find. An ultrasound will confirm whether or not you have fibroids, and how big they are.

both in and out of the hospital...

Had a kidney stone once . . . most intense pain I've ever had (and lived to tell about) . . . got morphine at the emergency room. . . .
Ahhhhhhhhhh!

on vacation with wife and kids i woke up about 4AM with excruciating pain across back, tried to walk it off, no good. ended up at some ER where DR. told me it was a kidney stone and HOW he was going to remove it, to graphic to get into. anyway i said i'll get that takan care of when i get home, just give me something for pain. i got a morphine iv and had to stay in hospital for 8 hours. pain went away and never came back.

Did you know that a testicle can fracture? Yeah, it can.:scared:

We laugh now--ok I laugh now--but it was pretty awful at the time. He didn't get morphine though. What a rip-off.

Testify!! :hi:

Keep taking good care of yourself, yvr girl. I'm glad to know the morphine helped. That is a VERY powerful drug!

~Shine

It was wonderful. I had my thumb on that little ol' button just banging away on it - I was so stoned at one point that I rang for the nurse. She came in and I told her, slurring my words pretty well - "I can't find my button..." She said, "Skygazer, it's in your hand." I said, "oh" and went right back to pressing it....

I hope you're feeling better. :hug:

Morphine gives me seizures, for some strange reason.

Demerol, on the other hand.. :P

I dated a doctor, once, who was hooked on self-prescribed Demerol. It was laying around like candy in her condo. Good times, good times.

Abdominal surgery (lymph node dissection).

The docs put me on morphine at first. The seizure came, and they switched me over to Demerol in a hurry. I remember getting frequent shots of it. When the nurse first gave it to me, she told me I'd fall asleep within minutes. 15 minutes later, I'm giggling at the Conan O'Brien.

Good times.. :P

fucking weeks.... Stepped down to demeral and then oxi...

Well, I was way out there in left field....

I swear to god, If I hadn;t done a lot of acid in my formative years, I would have never been able to at least grasp what was real and what wasn;t.....

Jesus, I never ever want to go through that again......