morphine in pancreatitis

I am allergic to codine so the only thing they can give me for pain in morphine whivh i have to be addmitted to hospital for. what could this be? is it gallstones someone said i was too young at 22 to get this?

Howdy, A brand new surprise happened to me last Wednesday night. My stomach started hurting with a main focal point at a point over where my gallbladder lives. Over a short 30-minute period it began to hurt worse than any pain I remember except perhaps when I had to have back surgery about 22-years ago. It turned on full blast and I writhed in pain without the ability to get into any body position that provided relief and wasn't showing any inclination to go away.

My father was admitted for Gall stones and pancreatitis, once he was admitted the Dr's started administering morphine. Now my dad is having to be is having to be put under sedation do to him being "medically delirious". Dr's have no clue what has caused this complication. The Pancreatitus is now gone. What could be causeung the delusions?

Thank you so much for your help. I am scared this could be Chronic Pancreatitis, I do get flare ups once in a while that are extreamly severe and do feel it to be the same pain and same area as panreatitis that I had before. The tenderness is always there and onset of back pain. I get nauseous too. This is really getting me down and interfering in the day to day of my life.

I want to get sober, the pain is gone and I have been in recovery before but it seems so long ago right now. In between the hydro and morphine I took no break. Now I decided if I take 3 tabs a day and get off the morphine and taper off the hydro I might make it without a lot of pain. This may not seem like much of an addiction but to me, I have no business with the morphine and the year of 8 hydros a day. So it changed my way of life.

I have been diagnosed now with Pancreatitis and it is painful, Lortab and ofcourse the morphine helped the pain. I am new to this site and hit the wrong area accidentally, i am in the Gastro forum now..

If the pain is under the shoulder blade then it could be due to a problem with the stomach (like acidity, gastric reflux, hiatal hernia) or due to pancreatitis, or in the chest like angina or heart attack, pericarditis, pleuritis, pneumonia, pulmonary embolus, aortic dissection. Do discuss this with your doctor and get yourself examined. Take care!

I was hospitalized in the summer and one of my roommates while I was in was in for chronic pancreatitis. She had never been a drinker but she had had gastric bypass and apparently it's a side effect for some people who've had that surgery. From what I understand, the pain can be very bad. This woman had been hospitalized 5 or 6 times in a little under a year.

This is very frustrating since I know that there have had to be improvements and gains in the area of pancreatitis in the past 14 years! I just want to have the same chances that someone who has just been diagnosed with pancreatitis has now. I've been under maintainance medical care for the last 12 years, just treating the pain. I will investigate the autoimmune pancreatitis. I have an appointment on Jan 15th with a PA from the Dr's office I mentioned above.

I am a 41 year old woman who has been recently diagnosed with chronic pancreatitis ( trauma to pancreas). I am otherwise healthy and would like to know what the risks are for pregnant women with my condition. I not yet pregnant but I am considering it. Please help.

I recently had a bout of acute pancreatitis that resolved in about 2-3 days. I had been eating a pretty high fat diet for a few days and was taking tylenol 3 for a dental procedure. AP was verified via CT w/contrast but my panc enzymes remained normal throughout the attack. I am concerened that the attack may be a sign of a cronic conditon due to my previous history of alchohol. The CT scan did not show anything other than the hazy pancreas, impression pancreatitis.

I have had every test HIDA Scan , ERCP x2 when this test was done in Feb 2010 the doctor could not get through the Ampulla Vater (bile duct), the second attempt March 2010 another ERCP was done 3 different size scopes could not get through the Ampulla. Later that day I was back in emergency with pancreatitis hospital stay 2 weeks, feeding tube, intensive care for my heart rate it was a nightmare. I now suffer from chronic pancreatitis and spasms.

But yesterday I had a onset of severe pain to my upper abdoman in the middle. That came with the shakes, shortness of breath, dizziness, nausea and clammy feeling. This pain was definately 10/10 the only way to describe it was it was like contractions. I could hardly stand at one point and felt like I would pass out. I was rushed to A&E. They took a few tests. They all came back normal, except for my liver function which came back slightly abnormal.

When I was in the hospital there was a pain management doctor that came up and they put me on a morphine pump instead of the 6 mg of morphine they were giving me every 2-4 hours. That worked ok, until I started to throw it up. The GI doctor then decided to try me on 50mg of fentanyl and 5 mg of oxycodone for break through pain. I found that to work great, they sent it home with me on September 6th for a month supply.

Measuring pancreatic amylase, or P-amylase, may be useful in determining if an increase in a total amylase level is due to acute pancreatitis. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- What does the test result mean? In acute pancreatitis, amylase in the blood often increases to 4 to 6 times higher than the highest reference value, sometimes called upper limit of normal.

Treatment for acute pancreatitis People with acute pancreatitis are treated with IV fluids and pain medications in the hospital. In up to 25% of patients, the pancreatitis can be severe and patients may need to be admitted to an intensive care unit (ICU). In the ICU, the patient is closely watched because pancreatitis can damage the heart, lungs, or kidneys. Some cases of severe pancreatitis can result in death of pancreatic tissue.

I loved my Ally more than anything in this world and wanted some kind of closure of how she passed away. Nothing made sense to me in how it all happened right away and nothing could be done to save her.

I am hoping someone can lend some good advice regarding sphincter of oddi dysfunction. I had to have my gall bladder removed in February of 2007 after the birth of my son. After the surgery, anytime I had to take an opiate based pain medication or even an over-the-counter cough syrup, I would get horrible pain attacks (they were even worse than the gall bladder pain!). After ruling out other things, I was recently diagnosed with SOD.

The morphine–prostigmine provocation (Nardi) test for sphincter of Oddi dysfunction. im in NZ not the states.... it involved getting a nuclear scan and then getting morphine put into me and measuring the splincer of oddi reaction...this test shows if the splincer goes into spasm........as morphine based drugs are bad for SOD. I had my GB out in jan this year and then i had an attack ten times worse about 6 weeks after....i went to emergency.....the pain was exactly like a GB attack......

If you do, indeed, have pancreatitis, morphine is the last pain med you should be taking. It can cause spasms that make the pain worse. You are obviously very ill, and you may just be stuck dealing with your current surgeon. This isn't something that can be treated in an ER setting. All they do is get you stable enough to go home and tell you to see your own doctor. Did the ER call your surgeon?

s possible the diagnosis could be pancreatitis, but you should ask your doctor for an exact diagnosis and also ask what diet you should be following for the condition you have. In general, most docs tell patients who have acute pancreatitis to follow a liquid diet for a period of time then slowly transition to a soft diet that is very low in fat. That can be followed up by changing back to a 'regular' low fat diet.

ploryi blood test/liver/pancrease panel and possibly a endoscope to find out what is going on in your stomach. A gi specialist would probably be best. If this is truly pancreatitis you would need to stop drinking to let the pancrease heal before permament damage is done...(normally) BUT i'm not a doctor.. a visit with a gi specialist would be the way to go..

Hi,I know what you are going thought I have chronic pancreatitis and Im in the same boat but I do still have my pancreatitis, but they want me to have it takeing out but I will not let them .. So I will live with the pain ...

I am still in the hospital unfortunately. I somehow developed pancreatitis and was not discharged as planned last Friday. I wrote up a journal entry if anyone is interested in reading more about it. Thanks Beach for your supportive comment. Anyway, the GI team wants to find out why I got pancreatitis and I've already had an ultrasoud and now I am going for an MRCP - a type of MRI in a few minutes.

Because the vet gave us muscle relaxants and rimadahl to give for pain management, his pancreatitis flared up again. Now he is in the hospital on intravenous fluids and pain med injections. I just want to know anyone's thoughts on this? I really believe if he didn't have problems with his neck, the pancreatitis would have been controllable. But b/c of his "slipped disk" in his neck steroids is usually the treatment, but he can't have steroids b/c of the pancreatitis.

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