Anyone every heard of IV morphine causing pain to worsen?
The reason I ask is I had a Lap choli a few weeks ago and stayed overnight. (I work on the same floor I stayed the night)
They gave me morphine 2mg as my first dose after surgery. I felt pain but figured it was just because I moved or something. Well when I said the pain did not change they upped it to 4mg. I thought I was going to go through the roof. I went from a 5-6 pain to a 9-10. I had a sore throat and that worsened also. All I could do for the next 45 min is breathe like I was in labor and rock back and forth.
None of the nurses really heard of it but my sister said she had the same thing happen to her with a previous surgery when given morphine.
Just curious if anyone has heard of this or experienced it.