Sorry for going back over things, I just wanted to share my exprerience re opiates in hospital.
January of this year I ended up with pneumonia, a collapsed lung a fluid in my lung, I walked about for 5 weeks with one working lung and coughing up blood and puss before I allowed myself to be admitted to hospital. First time I went in I was treated horribly! Told them I was an addict and was given10mg of methadone every hour as im not on a script (but have a rather large habit of between a teenth and a gate a day) tbh it barely to the edge off! I needed a lung drain put in, it was put in with numbing agent only (no pain relief) it was agonising! I was then given a 30mg codeine tab and 100mg of tramadol! Bare in mind I was still rattling! My gf brought me in gear and I was that delirious from being so ill that I was caught trying to cook up in my bed in the high dependency unit! I was that desperate for some relief!
I then decided to discharge myself obviously against tge doctors orders! I ended up back in high dependancy a week later (had to be blue lighted from my house to the hospital aftrr my go came out for a home visit.
This time I went in with a letter from my gp demanding that they treat my withdrawals and pain relief seperatly.
I had to have another lung drain put in the minute I got to hospital . My heart beat was 165, my reps were 45.
This time I had a theartre surgeon put my drain in. I was given 50mg of morphine and 2mg lorazepam IV aswell as numbing agents and 30mg morphine per hour for my withdrawals. The doctor agreed it was shocking that the drain was put in with pain relief the first time. I ended up spending a week in hospital, having 6 litres of blood and puss drained from my lung but this time I was recieving 30mg morphine iv per hour, 25mg oramorph every hour, and 30mg of diazepam every 24 hours spaced over 3 doses aswell as my normal meds like quitiapine, co-codamol,gabapentin. I was fucked! And my gf was bring me a charge every night with my clean clothes! Sorry if this doesnt make much sense! Took me 1 hour too write gouging my tits off lol!