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Morphine question.

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.

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I have experienced the Sphincter of Oddi spasms from both morphine and codeine after my lap chole. Even 5 years later, I can't take codeine because it still causes the spasms. It is a horrible pain and, in my opinion, is nearly as bad as kidney stones. For me, Demerol didn't help much with pain but rather made me too loopy to tell anyone I was still hurting. I have found Toradol to be the best pain med for me.

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