Morphine vs Duragesic Patch

September 12, 2004

I was so scared last night again...I was in so much pain that if

someone had offered to shoot me right then and there I may have

actually considered it!! My God!! I've got the patches back on

today - my doctor had said to give the patch the weekend (and little

white lie) I'm going to tell him that I did until Sunday night and

that couldn't bear the pain any longer - what the heck it's only a

day earlier! I have never experienced such awful pain in my entire

life and that includes having 3 children by natural birth!!! I was

so sick..nauseated, almost vomiting, cold sweats, etc. Anyway, I'll

spare you the gory details but I'm telling him that I just can't

bear that kind of pain and I want to be put back on the patch. Maybe

I can get him to prescribe the patch for 48 hr use vs the 72 hr use

AND I'm going to call Jansen (maker of the patch) today and request

that they send me the additional adhesive because I think I DO have

an absorption problem. So did my well-meaning family doc but I'm

going to solve that problem myself with adding surgical tape over

the patches until I get the add'l (and FREE!) adhesives from Jansen.

I'm sorry to keep going on and on with this....but I really thought

I was going to die....still waited on going to ER though because I

recently had my A & L levels checked because I've had worse pain since

the sphincterotomy and thought for sure they'd be up...but nope, as

per usual, they were normal. Sorry for the book here!! I thought I

had remembered someone talking about how morphine can make the SO go

into spasms. Take care everyone and I hope to be a more active

participant next week when I'm fully back on the patch and waaaayyy

more comfortable. The morphine only did 3 things for me (1) made me

VERY sleepy, (2) made me VERY dopey, and (3) made me experience the

worst pain of my life. Beware others!! If your doc wants to give you

morphine and you have sphincter of oddi dysfunction as I do...think

twice before taking that awful med. Bye for now....

love

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