Benzopiates
Bluelighter
Hello.
This post refers to a problem I have with helping my mother. I'm taking pretty much care of my mother 24/7 I will refer to her problems as our problems.
My mother has some big pains that happen mostly randomly but the docs says it's when she is stressed... Thing is pretty much everything stresses her lately. They said she has fibromyalgia and the stress causes her pain. Currently that's the only explanation we have for the fact she randomly gets hit with pains that hit the 9/10 and stays on for hours. Only way to make it go away is hydromorphone. Also, I suggested it could be kidney stones, they looked for it once, and didn't find anything so they wrote it off, but I still think it might be some sort of kidney stone reccurence where her body creates many stones each time and they have to pass and they cause pain... I could totally be wrong tho but the stress that causes pains equal to child birth seems sus to me.
At first they gave her some morphine and then not long after she was upgraded to hydromorphone.
The thing is, even with hydromorphone the pain was still strong and since because the pain was so strong and not only that, when she took the hydro orally it would take up to 45 minutes to take effect and she would describe her pain as sometimes up to 9/10 and it would take more than 30 minutes to even start to drop a little, and even when it did drop, it wouldn't drop much, only back down to like 4 after an hour and a half.
Me, being an ex-hydromorphone injecter, I knew that the medecine would be much more efficient injected but I didnt wanted to ask this to my mother... but at one point the pain was so insufferable that I did... and she said do whatever you want to help me this pain is too much... So I cleaned my hands, and executed the most efficient harm reduction I knew and injected her. I told her that we would only resort to this in times where the pain would be very high but of course, time and time again she would notice the difference in pain reduction, the IV method removed her pain completely and started acting almost immediately, where the oral way would take up to 45 minutes and that's not that much, but 45 minutes under 9/10 pain is a lot longer than a normal 45 minutes so more and more she started asking for IV.
After a while I'm starting to wonder, I know my mother isn't addicted to hydromorphone, because the dose she is taking is 1mg and at max once a day, it happened a few times that she needed one in the morning and one later but very rarely, and on the other side, theres plenty of days where she doesn't take any pills at all. But it's still bugging me, would it be possible that her body creates a pain because it knows it's going to create a situation in which she will receive hydromorphone?
Anyway, I'm not a nurse and even on myself I sometimes couldn't inject correctly, sometimes having to redo multiple times but I realized that even if I dont inject directly in the vein the effect still works, maybe less efficiently but it does... So I tried something.
I used a seringue with a much shorter needle and I injected it in her shoulder. She said that the dryness of the mouth can be felt immediately but the pain reduction takes a little while longer to be felt but still works, and it's much cleaner, in the sense that we don't mess up her arms that way. But is it good tho?
I have no idea if what I'm doing is bad long term so I'd like some advice, currently I'm injecting 0.5mg (half a pill) per time, about once per day, and I try to use as safe methods as I can but I don't have micron filters, I'm using a cotton in a spoon and always a new seringue and 5ml (The normal seringue I used to inject in vein was 10ml and much longer needle, but this smaller ones is 5ml and shorter needle) so if I keep injecting that way instead of in the vein, is there anything bad I should expect, or how can I make it safer for her?
Any advice is welcome, but no criticism about choices, we're pretty much forced to do this as her pain is unbearable and doctors can't understand why so they are reluctant to even give hydromorphone, we would really like to have a real diagnostic and proper treatment but so far that's all we have.
This post refers to a problem I have with helping my mother. I'm taking pretty much care of my mother 24/7 I will refer to her problems as our problems.
My mother has some big pains that happen mostly randomly but the docs says it's when she is stressed... Thing is pretty much everything stresses her lately. They said she has fibromyalgia and the stress causes her pain. Currently that's the only explanation we have for the fact she randomly gets hit with pains that hit the 9/10 and stays on for hours. Only way to make it go away is hydromorphone. Also, I suggested it could be kidney stones, they looked for it once, and didn't find anything so they wrote it off, but I still think it might be some sort of kidney stone reccurence where her body creates many stones each time and they have to pass and they cause pain... I could totally be wrong tho but the stress that causes pains equal to child birth seems sus to me.
At first they gave her some morphine and then not long after she was upgraded to hydromorphone.
The thing is, even with hydromorphone the pain was still strong and since because the pain was so strong and not only that, when she took the hydro orally it would take up to 45 minutes to take effect and she would describe her pain as sometimes up to 9/10 and it would take more than 30 minutes to even start to drop a little, and even when it did drop, it wouldn't drop much, only back down to like 4 after an hour and a half.
Me, being an ex-hydromorphone injecter, I knew that the medecine would be much more efficient injected but I didnt wanted to ask this to my mother... but at one point the pain was so insufferable that I did... and she said do whatever you want to help me this pain is too much... So I cleaned my hands, and executed the most efficient harm reduction I knew and injected her. I told her that we would only resort to this in times where the pain would be very high but of course, time and time again she would notice the difference in pain reduction, the IV method removed her pain completely and started acting almost immediately, where the oral way would take up to 45 minutes and that's not that much, but 45 minutes under 9/10 pain is a lot longer than a normal 45 minutes so more and more she started asking for IV.
After a while I'm starting to wonder, I know my mother isn't addicted to hydromorphone, because the dose she is taking is 1mg and at max once a day, it happened a few times that she needed one in the morning and one later but very rarely, and on the other side, theres plenty of days where she doesn't take any pills at all. But it's still bugging me, would it be possible that her body creates a pain because it knows it's going to create a situation in which she will receive hydromorphone?
Anyway, I'm not a nurse and even on myself I sometimes couldn't inject correctly, sometimes having to redo multiple times but I realized that even if I dont inject directly in the vein the effect still works, maybe less efficiently but it does... So I tried something.
I used a seringue with a much shorter needle and I injected it in her shoulder. She said that the dryness of the mouth can be felt immediately but the pain reduction takes a little while longer to be felt but still works, and it's much cleaner, in the sense that we don't mess up her arms that way. But is it good tho?
I have no idea if what I'm doing is bad long term so I'd like some advice, currently I'm injecting 0.5mg (half a pill) per time, about once per day, and I try to use as safe methods as I can but I don't have micron filters, I'm using a cotton in a spoon and always a new seringue and 5ml (The normal seringue I used to inject in vein was 10ml and much longer needle, but this smaller ones is 5ml and shorter needle) so if I keep injecting that way instead of in the vein, is there anything bad I should expect, or how can I make it safer for her?
Any advice is welcome, but no criticism about choices, we're pretty much forced to do this as her pain is unbearable and doctors can't understand why so they are reluctant to even give hydromorphone, we would really like to have a real diagnostic and proper treatment but so far that's all we have.