- Update brother Florida, why would he hit someone he loves? 9th August 2002
... she calmed him down and gave him an extra dose of morphine . She said to up the dosage and that she felt it would ... swallow any longer so she has to take a syringe with the morphine and deposit it into the side of his mouth and tilt...
- Does a 24/7 Hospice Watch mean death is near, ie brother Florida 29th July 2002
... eat. They have taken him off of all meds except the morphine and pain patches (they give him 3 every two days)...
- How long can a person survive without Eating or Drinking? 23rd July 2002
... extreme pain. We just keep giving her the Roxinol ( morphine ) and the Lorazepam (Ativan). We give these meds around...
... your aunt is getting exactly what she needs...enough morphine to allow her to die in peace and without pain. If...
- Latest News on my Aunt with Pancreatic Cancer 16th July 2002
... better word I guess. She is constantly doped with the morphine and lorazepm - which makes her just about as incoherent...
- Update on brother in Florida with some strange questions? 12th July 2002
... would be?
2) My sister in law said he is off the morphine and on a stronger patch medication that starts with ... did not know the name. She said is is stronger than morphine , due to his headaches and the morphine was not helping ... she said that when the doctor's took him off the morphine and put him on the new medication my brother has stopped...
- To iluvmypups and MommyNeecey 8th July 2002
... phase of "dying". My father thinks it's all the " morphine " - but I don't think so. She will often say, "who ... she seemed to have become literally oblivious to the morphine - doesn't make her sleep, doesn't make her hallucinate...
... Amy -
Has your Mom been put on morphine ? It's about the only thing that might make things...
- Colon cancer in elderly 7th July 2002
... work. My dad is in pain all the time (almost 200mg morphine a day) and they don't think the chemo will kill it...
- End of life questions, I am in MA brother in Florida dying, please read 3rd July 2002
... the family members "Gone from my sight". He is on morphine on a patch and hourly liquid dose, and another medication ... and walk? - Esp.when one is on such high doses of morphine . Again, this information was passed on to me from...
... and the poor angel enjoyed it even though he was on morphine etc the morphine wears off quick especially as your...
- Metastases/Chemo - Need Feedback ASAP! 17th June 2002
... nightly fever and high pain which is reduced by 60mg morphine each morning and night. Due to past radiation damage...
- White Stools/Diaharea ?? Re the Pancreatic Cancer? Bile ducts blocked?? 16th June 2002
... comfortable as is humanly possible; if that means a morphine drip, then so be it. If she's not in bad pain and...
... with her pain patches (50 mg) not sure if they are morphine or not I don't think so - but an opiate derivative...
... weekend she would have been put on major oxygen and morphine , the weekend cover nurse didn't know us, and my Mom...
- Update on my Aunt with Pancreatic Cancer ..... 4th June 2002
... their legs, asking you to move them in the bed, etc. Morphine will also help this. Once she gets to that point ... , she should be put on a morphine drip, not shots, as the shots wear off and then it...
- My 82 year old great aunt with Pancreatic Cancer - More questions - please help. 6th May 2002
... awake" life - than just getting the heavy medicine ( morphine ) to control the pain and be "out of it and in a daze...
... severe pain, do you want her to be knocked out on morphine for possibly six months? Wouldn't it be better if...
- small cell carcinoma 20th March 2002
... surgery tomorrow) - if she can be medically cleared. The morphine for the broken leg completely took away her apetite...
- My Mom has Throat Cancer 20th August 2001
... trach in her throat. She's really hurting now but morphine seems to be helping. Hospice is visiting once a week...
- Is there? 21st May 2001
... there anything out there for cancer pain other than Morphine ?
Responses appreciated .....
- Anyone know? 20th May 2001
... heroin is better than morphine if you can get it. fentanyl is legal and good. clinoril...
- Final Stages? 27th February 2001
... over. He is in so much pain that he was put on a morphine IV today. Is this an indication that he is near the...
... I can only tell you about my experience with the morphine situation. My mom recieved morphine and passed away ... 3 weeks later. In MY OPINION, I think morphine is given when death is near. Best of luck...
... has. It is also my experience (through my mom) that morphine is usually the last resort in the treatment of cancer...
... has. It is also my experience (through my mom) that morphine is usually the last resort in the treatment of cancer...
... my experiences also, with my father, he was given morphine a few weeks before he passed away. So i assume its...
... had the same experience with my father. He recieved morphine treatments a few weeks before he passed away. So i...
- Have you had post rectal cancer pain? 2nd June 2008
... to the point I spent two weeks in the hospital, on morphine drip, for burns. Expecting that still is having its...
- back home from the hospital 21st November 2007
... The biggest problem was an itchy reaction to the morphine epidural. It went away after switching to a synthetic ... morphine . The main thing is that you do tire very easily. I...
- Bad Bad news 1st November 2007
... as the doctors finally convienced him to take the morphine and several other med's, something he hated doing...
- Radiotherapy for Rectal Cancel 9th August 2007
... weeks. The pain was unmentionable. They put me on morphine tabs for the pain and sulfur creme for the burns...
- Dad has tumours on Liver now.... 6th July 2007
... if he is hallucinating, i am assuming this is the morphine ? How long can one be on morphine?
He doest want to...
- Jeanette? 7th June 2007
... were doing ok I suppose Dad is getting worse now on morphine he is losing weight as well,I dont know if its the ... morphine or his illness but he is getting very confused and...
- Ulcerative Colitis + Colon Cancer... 24th April 2007
... up). If only Vicodin worked as well as Dilaudid or morphine ...
Thanks to all of you for your support and thanks...
- Big surgery day. 8th December 2006
... Hubby is tired today and is trying to ween off of the morphine , took a few steps today and was on a full liquid diet...
- Colon Cancer remission, but complications, Very Concerned 27th November 2006
... extreme pain from this surgery, and was on so much morphine , she didn't even remember anything for over a week ...
My friend is not doing well. She's had to be on morphine again from the pain, and hasn't been staying concious...
- i had my first round of treatment 17th October 2006
... HORRIBLE mouth sores that were SO painful I ended up on morphine . Also something called "Miracle Mouthwash"-- a prescriptio...
- post-surgery concerns 30th September 2006
... morning, they removed everything he was hooked up to - morphine epidural, Foley catheter and IV drip. The hospital...
- Just Need Support 21st September 2006
... pretty upbeat considering. I guess it could be the morphine ! :) Anyway, I'm just looking for support as I have...
- working during chemo? many questions... 19th September 2006
... the med ports standard procedure? He had to take morphine for a prior surgery and it made him act bizarre.
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- Question about aunt 6th September 2006
... reads this and will share his knowledge. She is taking Morphine , valium for her nerves, ativan (for who knows what...
... experience a great deal of pain at the last. The morphine will make people talk out of their head. My uncle ... he saw things on the ceiling, and I think he was on morphine then too.
Some people near death see the other...
... moving on, then you should ask hospice to switch the morphine ... Many people hallucinate when they take morphine ... Duragesic (fentanyl patches) and slowly get her off the morphine . If she starts to get agitated then you know she ... caused by the medications with nothing in her stomach. Morphine alone can do this... is she taking it by pill, or...
... helpful and just my thoughts to a tee...she is taking morphine by mouth, a liquid....Yesterday we tried to get her...
- Update On Aunt 5th September 2006
... Went to see aunt today. They had just given her some morphine so she was not too awake. I did wake her to let her...
- mouth sores 28th August 2006
... SEVERE mouth sores that were so painful they required morphine to cut the pain. I was totally against this at the...
- update on aunt 26th August 2006
... up a storm. This week, they put her on ativan and morphine during the day and valium at night. I have noticed...
... essentially double dosing her. Maybe if they lower her morphine during the day if she's not in pain, or lower the...
... mind too that her stomach might hurt because of the morphine ... narcotics can cause stomach discomfort, especially...
- does this happen from chemo? 29th July 2006
... for you. I got mucositis SO bad that I had to take morphine , prescribed by the on-call doctor over the weekend...
- Am I To Young For This?? 8th July 2006
... small incisions do not hurt. I only had to hit the morphine button one time and that was because the nurse told...
- Starting Chemo on Monday-Reason starting back to work 6/16 & Insurance ?s 3rd June 2006
... the point where they were so painful, I had to go on morphine . Also the headaches were bad. I found if I came...
- I have a question about lack of side effects 16th May 2006
... they were going to admit me and actually had me on morphine and anti-virals. So, to sum it up, as others have...
- Colon Cancer/Problem 2nd May 2006
... some are more sensitive than others. She can try morphine , which has less of these symptoms.
Good Luck,
...
- my 23 year old daughter is the patient 30th April 2006
... only did she get this infection and spend days on a morphine pump, the top specialist that did the procedure, biopsied...
- Post-Operative experience... 23rd April 2006
... the epidural, but when I went back in they put me on morphine and that felt weird after I came off, I had tingling...
- Question about port removal 9th April 2006
... that they used when they put it in (it was a mix of morphine and valium), and it was over before i knew it. Afterwards...
- Rectal Surgery - ICU Pyschosis 5th April 2006
... 22nd of March and was in ICU for two days plus on morphine for the pain. He also experienced pyschosis. The nurses ... they finally moved him to a room he refused any more morphine , but didn't really settle down until he got out of...
- Update on surgery 9th March 2006
... to be that way. Plus he had a bad reaction to the morphine which caused him to become paranoid and he hasn't...
- Newly diagnosed Bowel and Liver 27th February 2006
... controlled analgesia ) which basically allows you to squirt Morphine into your blood stream at the rate of 1 mg/minute ... sleep with attendant funny dreams. If that's what morphine and heroin do for you, I'm glad I missed out - and...
- Just found this site 21st January 2006
... He is in a LOT of pain, despite a whopping dose of morphine daily. Can't sit for very long and his taste buds...
... severe pain... what seems like a whopping dose of morphine , might actually not be that much. We all respond...
- Will better news ever come? 16th January 2006
... there's the 14 yr old to consider.
On top of that, morphine IS legal and while I don't know how to put this gently ... for most people with late stage IV colon cancer. Morphine is considered palliative care at that point and a...
- epidural for colon surgery? 22nd July 2005
... luck for your forthcoming surgery.
Husband had morphine pump for bowel resection and felt v.sick from it so...
- Need Chemo Side effect help 10th July 2005
... sores in my mouth and throat got so bad I required morphine drops in addition to the "Miracle Mouthwash"-- Benadryl...
... shots that kept him loopy all the time and he's on a morphine pump.. doc is talking about doing iv feeding??? am...
... so bad, they put me on an antiviral, gave me oral morphine drops along with the Lidocaine mouthwash, and reduced ... you push for that antiviral and perhaps some oral morphine to get it right to the point where it's needed.
...
- low anterior resection 26th June 2005
... connected to loads of tubes and monitors. He had a morphine pump thing which he could press himself. He was allowed ... bowels were working by producing gas. He stopped the morphine on day 2 or 3 and just stuck to tramadol and paracetamol...
- Update on Surgery 2nd June 2005
... well. But on the forth day, when they removed the morphine supply, I started experiencing severe, almost continuous...
- Can morphine abuse make situation seem more dire? 27th May 2005
... the incoherence and grey pallor. My aunt noticed the morphine dose she was getting was being given by every nursing ... her time was drawing near when in fact it was the morphine that was making it look more like that. She was with...
... Dear Seattle:
Rarely do cancer patients abuse morphine or other narcotics. That being said, I think your ... the right amount. Also, your Dad may be using the morphine to take away having to deal with all this as his ... anti-anxiety will make it more tolerable, and the morphine will dull the pain. You may want to talk with the ... right now for the pain... he should NOT be swiging the morphine .. liquid is pretty potent, and would definitely account...
... a concern - but there can be a danger in too much morphine affecting the quality of life that remains.
Your...
- Dad not doing well 11th May 2005
... he is in his final stages. He has been on double morphine patches for about a month. He has not been able to...
- Presurgical scans 20th April 2005
... on a PCA. Patient Controlled Analgesia. They put morphine or something like in the pump that auto delivers it...
- Rectal Cancer Stage III (Age 35) what to expect. 4th April 2005
... day and I was released the day after. I used the morphine pump first couple of days to control pain and was...
... not had pain afterwards that requires a narcotic. Morphine is a natural drug and this is the first I have heard...
