If you're getting the right dose of morph, if I am, pain control is good and there is really little, I would say no, side effect. If I get too much, nausesa comes, and then sleepiness. But it takes more, quite a bit more, than you need. For me. Only, maybe. The pain machine should be set with fine gradations and more frequent time intervals than is often done. If you're getting nausea or drowsiness from one click, it's too much, and will make you sick. Man, that, is awful; so you tend to spread it more, hold off, and then when you hit it it blows you into hell. I went thru a night like that where I could not get relief, wouldn't click it, and couldn't get cooperation to LOWER the dose from the night nurse, and so help me I hurt bad and almost killed the bitch. If I'd been able to move, I would have left. She would not go to her superior, and would not change the machine, even though the dose would be lower.
The REAL ADVANTAGE to the pain machine is the overall amt can be controlled over time. Flat. Instead of a massive pill or IV blast toward unconsciousness, that must wear off to near complete before the motherfukkers will give you another, you can add to the dose precisely as it wears off. You can be comfortable.
I take about four to eight small doses in the time one shot comes. And it tapers down precisely. You can't OD, and you can slow it down, and get the damn shit without having to get a goddam nurse, who is hopefully doing something productive. IMHO, they should be SOP.
This last time, I needed those levels only twenty two hours. But goddam it, they left me without it right after the surgery. I'm insisting it be in the presurgery orders this time.
It sounds like it effects LRR differently. |
