Morphine

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grumpy52

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Tuesday 31st May 2016
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It's wonderful stuff !
I had a flare up of my gallstones last night and my usual meds of Naproxen and Zapain didn't kill the pain last night .
Over the next few hours the pain got to the level where I could neither sit lay or stand then the room started to tilt it was that much agony .
Called 101 who said it was an emergency and sent a response car with two paramedics .
The release from pain after one syringe full was fantastic, was a bit nauseous from the stuff but another syringe of stuff sorted that .
6 hrs of tests and x rays in A+E later and a dose of Oramorph later and I was good to go home .
Great service from the NHS even if they were very busy in A+E .
Not the best start to a birthday and I cannot drive for 24hrs as I would fail a drugs test .

grumpy52

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5,638 posts

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Tuesday 31st May 2016
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My meds slow it down anyway ,but I have another that "helps"it .

grumpy52

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Tuesday 31st May 2016
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My dear old dad was given an injection of it when he was in hospital .
He unfortunately he had a reaction with it .
He suffered severe paranoia, accused everyone of falsely imprisoning him ,he also had hallucinations.
Didn't recognise me or accept anything that I told him .
He was on Oramorph at the end of his life which gave him relief from what must have been severe discomfort as his spine and ribs had crumbled away due to that awful thing called cancer .
We had loads of it left at home when he had passed away and it was a bit of a challenge to dispose of it legally .
We could have made a fair few ££s on the dodgy side with the stuff.
I certainly could have used some last night !

grumpy52

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Tuesday 7th June 2016
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Paul Dishman said:
grumpy52 said:
He was on Oramorph at the end of his life which gave him relief from what must have been severe discomfort as his spine and ribs had crumbled away due to that awful thing called cancer .
We had loads of it left at home when he had passed away and it was a bit of a challenge to dispose of it legally .
We could have made a fair few ££s on the dodgy side with the stuff.
I certainly could have used some last night !
Sorry, a bit late on this thread. You could have returned the surplus Oramorph to your local pharmacy for disposal.
Our local pharmacy wanted all sorts of paperwork to accept it as they hadn't issued it .The wonderful Macmilan nurse took it away in the end .
The amount of un-opened pharmaceutical stuff we had left that was just destroyed must have been worth a fortune.

grumpy52

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Tuesday 7th June 2016
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Our family is going through it at the moment as one of my sisters is in ICU at the moment with Legionelle ,pneumonia and sepsis .

grumpy52

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168 months

Thursday 9th June 2016
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Paul Dishman said:
grumpy52 said:
Paul Dishman said:
grumpy52 said:
He was on Oramorph at the end of his life which gave him relief from what must have been severe discomfort as his spine and ribs had crumbled away due to that awful thing called cancer .
We had loads of it left at home when he had passed away and it was a bit of a challenge to dispose of it legally .
We could have made a fair few ££s on the dodgy side with the stuff.
I certainly could have used some last night !
Sorry, a bit late on this thread. You could have returned the surplus Oramorph to your local pharmacy for disposal.
Our local pharmacy wanted all sorts of paperwork to accept it as they hadn't issued it .The wonderful Macmilan nurse took it away in the end .
The amount of un-opened pharmaceutical stuff we had left that was just destroyed must have been worth a fortune.
Struggling to think what paperwork would be needed, none I'm aware of for standard strength Oramorph. Returned CDs such as MST have to be recorded, but beyond asking for your name and address I can't think of anything else that would need to be done. Accepting returned CDs is pretty routine we'd get them back two or three times a week.

Of course, once anything goes out the supply chain is broken and has to go in the controlled waste for disposal.
It's ok if you are dealing with properly trained staff ,but when dealing with people that are clearly making it up as they go along and I was dealing with a bereavement I decided to leave it and sort it later .The phone call from dads care nurse checking that we were coping with everything resulted in the mention of the controlled drugs .20 mins later she collected them and the sharps container .
We unfortunately had a pharmacy that had staff that left a great deal to be desired.
I now use a different pharmacy that is soooo much better with well trained and efficient customer focused staff .