Morphine for end stage copd
Common Questions and Answers about Morphine for end stage copd
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The doctor told us both that she now has end stage COPD and they are giving her morphine orally twice a day to help depress her breathing and starting her on anti anxiety drugs today to help with the panic attacks she has started to get.
Her Oxygen saturation levels upon arrival to hospital this time were 75%. A few weeks before hand they were 83% and 74% in April.
I am on only child and work full time and also tend to my dad in a nursing home am now back and forth to her in hospital.
My Mom is in end stage COPD and CHF and it has been a battle of "wills" and "won'ts" between my sisters and my mothers care....My Mom is on Hospice care and I believe in there "mission" for "comfort care" but my sisters think that my Mom is/will become a "drug addict" (my Mom can be given Morphine and Ativan if her respirations
get too high... (and my Mom has been having respirations up into the 40's - normal is between 18 to 20....
In my Post of Getting Out my question regarding my 64 yr old fiance extremely heavy smoker and drinker. When anyone is in End Stage Alcoholism (third/fourth stages) how long does these stages last before they pass away?
As stated my fiance, has been diagnosed back in 2006 with COPD, Cirrhosis of the Liver, deeply depressed, malnutrition, physiological problems. gastrological problems, fatigue just too name a few Medical Condition he has.
In my Post of Getting Out my question regarding my 64 yr old fiance extremely heavy smoker and drinker. When anyone is in End Stage Alcoholism (third/fourth stages) how long does these stages last before they pass away?
As stated my fiance, has been diagnosed back in 2006 with COPD, Cirrhosis of the Liver, deeply depressed, malnutrition, physiological problems. gastrological problems, fatigue just too name a few Medical Condition he has.
I'm not a Doctor, however, if I were I would ask you for some more information about your mom. For instance is she on supplemental Oxygen? Does she have any other chronic conditions or diseases? How old is she? Has she been checked for or been diagnosed with Alzheimers? Does she have dementia? If she just has end stage COPD then I would imagine that she is not getting enough Oxygen and that could be causing these symptoms you are describing.
Are your lungs being subjected to impure air such as secondhand smoke (living with or working with a smoker who smokes indoors), environmental chemicals, or mold spores? If so, then developing asthma and/or copd later in life would not be exceptional for many people imo.
t give up hope, like I said, go to a specialist for your COPD care, there are many things that you can do that can improve your quality of life. I personally know a person who lived in end stage COPD for over a decade...end stage. He did everything possible to keep in as good a shape as possible and had a great attitude which is also very important. He ran a COPD group which I now am a moderator to...It is MSN based and called OurCOPD, so if you want to check it out, please do.
My 77 year old mother is about to start radiation and chemo for stage 3A lung cancer (non-small cell carcinoma). It will be 6-8 weeks of radiation and chemo once a week only because of her COPD. Can anyone comment on what we can expect in the way of side effects, etc. And honestly if you think this will actually prolong her life? They opted to not do surgery because they didn't want to put her under, again because of the COPD. She is currently not on O2.
COPD, Congestive heart failure, effusions and PE's. I hope your mother finds comfort and peace.
u can die from respatory failure , heart attacks or strokes even lung cancer so who knows when we are to die and yeah it is a death sentence in its own diagnois
My very good friend (he is a 49 year old male) has recently been diagnosed with end stage liver failure. He has Hepatitis C, Cirrhosis, Emphysema and COPD. His meld number was 14. His main symptom has been lethargy (he sleeps a lot) but recently he has been experiencing stomach pain. What may be causing the stomach pain? Could it be an abundance of blood in the abdomen? That is what he thought he understood the doctor said.
I had a friend who was in end stage COPD and was told by his doctors that he would live maybe two years in that final stage. He wound up living well over a decade with a lung function of less than 30%. What helped his case was that he stopped smoking, became as active as he could, watched his diet and became very proactive in his care. He learned everything he could possibly learn about COPD so that he could be more productive when it came to doctor's visits.
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