That doesn't sound like morphine. It sounds more like a mixed agonist-antagonist like Nubain, Talwin or Stadol. They're notorious for causing hallucinations, dysphoria, and confusion. Demerol sometime does too.In addition to keeping up her spirits despite losing her hands, left leg and right foot to a flesh-eating bacteria, this week Aimee Copeland turned down painkillers before a skin graft, her father wrote in a blog Friday.
"Aimee despises the use of morphine in her treatment," Andy Copeland wrote. "Although that drug effectively blocks most of the pain associated with her condition, it makes her groggy and confused and it gives her unpleasant hallucinatory episodes.
Update:http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504763_...-skin-graft-surgery-despite-previous-refusal/
God the pain must be excruciating. And she will never have a normal life again. If she survives. How sad.But in a Father's Day blog post from Andy Copeland, who has been tracking his daughter's progress for the public, he said a surgery Aimee needed on Friday caused pain far more severe than any dressing change. The pain was so bad that even if Aimee had refused, doctors would have administered the pain relievers - such as Morphine - in an intravenous drip. Fortunately, Aimee did not say no.
"Please believe me when I say that Aimee's refusal to use pain medication has ceased following her most recent surgery," Andy Copeland wrote. "She is now requesting it ahead of schedule."