Ah, you are wacky withOUT the morphine! That is why we love ya!hobie16 wrote:Not a clue. I was wacky on the morphine.
Yeah it IS dangerous and highly addictive! And as much as it did help me in the past few years with pain, I WANT OFF of it! NOW!!!!! :(GRUMPY PIRATE wrote:Mmmmmmm, morphine!!
Sorry, only time I ever had drugs like that is when I got burned very bad with an exploding radiator in the desert. Drove myself to a little hospital and was on a gurney lying down, when a doctor gave me a very small dose, and the pain went away...And I got dizzy lying down!!
Woooo! Now I know why that stuff is dangerous!!
Sister Morphine... ;)
I had a pump with Fentanyl and Dilaudid in it. Those are very short acting powerful drugs that act fast and wear off fast. They are potent!!!! I could hit the button every 6 minutes. I did. It helped. It knocked me out. They were also bringing me pills, oxycodone (percocer without the tylenol) and also percocet as needed. Iw as getting drugs every 2 hours there, as well as the pump.
When they finally got me back on JUST my pills (60 mg Morphine and 2 Percocet every morning, as well as 60 mg Morphine in the evening and up to 6Percocet per day as needed, PLUS a few extra pills because post op pain is excruciating!!!!)), I was off the pump. It took a day only. They want you off the pump ASAP! They want you back on oral meds so you can go home. You have to be able to pee without a cath, fart or poop on your own, eat a little real food and take oral meds. That is the criteria. It took a few more percocet a day in the beginning to stop the pain once they turned off the pump, but I have backed off them now...
I am back on my old dose of 60 mg of Morphine and 2 percocet at breakfast, 60 mgs of Morphine at around 8PM (though I now add 1 Percocet to that and am going to drop one Mophine tablet starting tonight), which is bedtime for me and usually I take 2 percs at 11AM and 2 percs at 2-3PM.
I will take more if it hurts more, less if the pain is not that bad. (That was how it was before surgery, anyway!)
So I am back on track and have gotten over the tremendous amounts of opiates they pumped me full in the hospital. I was so drugged up there!
Not fun. And it felt weird coming off that much opiates. Not good.
So now guess what? NOW, I get to withdraw from all of my pain meds if I can live without ANY meds at all! I have to do it slowly, I am first cutting back on 1 Morphine a day for a while, then drop another Morphine for a while, then another, then the last. It will go slow. I will get down to just the Percocet and then start weaning from that! In reality, it could take 6 months to a year if I don't want to go through that horrible withdrawal. I know how that feels. There have been mornings when I have awoken 5-6 hours late and I feel awful, sick to my stomach, shaky, weird sensations and that is just being a few hours late on the meds. I am addicted that is for sure and want so bad to be off these pills. I will. It will take patience and time.
Pain is a life changer. It shadows everything you do. It changed my personality over the past several years. I became depressed, lonely and housebound. It takes much out of you physically, mentally, emotionally. Good health is a blessing and I am sure going to exercise my way back to fitness and health after I am able to. The pain is slowly going away. It hurts less and less each day that goes by. It is still hard to get around, cause my back is sore. But I use the brace and walk around the house to get up and moving. Then I rest as I am supposed to. The incision does not hurt as much and is healing wonderfully.
It will be no time at all before I am up and running around again like I used to. I may not be as strong as I used to be or be able to do as much as I used to, but I will be able to do enough that I won't need the damn ECV at DL and WDW anymore, or maybe have to use them just part time to give my back a rest..gotta be realistic...I do not know how much I will get back. They cannot guarantee 100%, They told me maybe 50% or even 25% or maybe close to 100%. But there is no certainty and guarantee.
I have to wait til recovery is over and I can start to use my back and legs and walk again to see just how much I get back! Anything will be an improvement! :) I just know that I have NOT had the old pain at all since surgery, that crushed nerve feeling and pain shooting down my legs, none of that since surgery... :) It is just post-op soreness and pain now. We will see :) what happens when that is gone...
susi-Q
) med to stop the spasms. They are really bad in the morning when I first wake up and am lying there, my muscle just starts grabbing and spasming and I can't stop it. It is painful, cause it is in the muscles right around the disk implant. So we will see what that is. 
. I wanted to crawl into a cave, I smelled like I lived in one!!!!! LOL! :hysteria: