Morphine in copd

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Avatar f tn My husband died 3 months ago from COPD. He had been prescribed hydrocodone and we noticed increased breathing problems while taking it. When he went in the hospital with what we were told was pneumonia, he was continued on hydrocodone even though I told the doctors he could not breath well with it. So, now I know that probably the doctors hastened his death.
Avatar f tn All is less than it was but still keeping me awake at night and tired in the day. I am 82 and copd. Have scoliosis also. Using asprin and tylenol for my pain. any info is apprecited. Thanks.
Avatar n tn my dad is in the final stage of copd he is in great pain he is in the hospital with oral morphine they want to send him to my home with the morphine but he needs it on demand.
Avatar f tn Have been clean of morphine and hydocodone for 12 days. I am 82 and these were given me for scoliosis and COPD. I decided to cold turkey after a couple of years of this and am having bad headaches. Other wd symptoms seem to have started to let up fairly well. I took restlegs prep last night, twice. first time for me, could that cause stomach upset along with more headaches?
Avatar f tn Have faith in your convictions. And WHY does it matter if she is addicted to morphine at this stage in her life?
937826 tn?1261333879 I have COPD and Asthma and am on nocturnal oxygen. I also have pain in the middle of my chest, my neck and shoulders. My doctor believes this is my lungs, not my heart. To be safe, I have had stress tests, and a variety of other heart related tests, all come out negative. The difficulty breathing, coughing, and shortness of breath are probably due to COPD, but do you have a pulmonary specialist you can see about it or are you just seeing a GP?
Avatar f tn 2.4 cm and 2.1 cm mass in lower pole of right kidney, highly suspicious for neoplasm. Left kidney removed for RCC three years ago. I have severe COPD (on continuous oxygen), and do not feel I can survive surgery, and definitely do not want to face dialysis. What are my alternatives?
Avatar f tn It is odd but especially in the mornings after a full load of meds and breathing treatments, but sitting still in my chair or up in my bed my mind feels sharp, and speaking with folks on the phone, they say how great I sound. I feel like I can get up and do anything. Of course, I cannot, but I do feel and think it. I can still get to bathroom by myself, fix a sandwich, etc. but without hospice, I could not bathe or do any personal care.
620048 tn?1358018235 Hi, Meg. I just did a very quick check and found that both sailorsong and siv1 have COPD. There may be lots of others. If neither of these is the one you're thinking of, go to the Search this Community box (upper right) and type in COPD. You'll get a lot of matches which you then can look at.
Avatar f tn i am worried about withdrawls i have copd and hep.c in remission, should i have ever taken this drug?should he have given me something more than hydrocodone10/500 to come off of this med. i know that i am not susposed to have that much acedimine, what do u suggest i do about this? this hydro. does not help my pain,it really takes a lot of it and i just can not get another dr. right away.i thank u very much for your answer about the morphine.
Avatar f tn Weight reduction, if you are overweight or obese, is the optimal health strategy for patients who suffer from COPD. This can be done through a combination of diet, an increase in physical activity and sometimes medication. Weight reduction can help reduce dyspnea, increase exercise tolerance and improve your quality of life. Incorporating pulmonary rehabilitation in to your COPD treatment plan may help you begin an exercise program if you are obese. I hope this helps.
Avatar m tn COPD, Congestive heart failure, effusions and PE's. I hope your mother finds comfort and peace.
Avatar n tn please keep trying to give up, in the end you will do it, i just told myself i would put has much effort in to not smoking as i put into smoking.. it is easy if you tell youself it is.i have copd, i was very worried, and still am to a certain degree....my doctor told me that at least it isnt lung cancer..which in a round about is good news..
Avatar f tn Sorry, not started to death, starved to death in the hospital in a morphine stupor. Only time she came out of it once she decided to give up and die she weight about 70 pounds, all bone, and asked my Dad for a cigarette. Again, not my choice.
Avatar n tn We tend to be easily stressed, irittated at everything and everyone when we are going through a lot all at once. Thats normal, whatever normal is. I am in a simular situation but in my case I am the Mom living with daughter and her 4 boys. I lost my husband to but many years ago. I came to live with my daughter because she couldn't make it alone. I watch her boys while she works.
Avatar n tn I had 11 fractures of the vertebrae probably due to steoid use for copd. I had 5 kyphoplastys which also resultef in several broken ribs. My last surgery was the first week of September, This all began mid March 09. I was on morphine which I tapered myself off of after the surgeries. I was admitted to the hospital before the lasytsurgery for sever abdominal pain without any etiology. Every test showed that my stomach was ok.
757137 tn?1347196453 I am from Canada, I was diagnosed of Emphysema (COPD) in 2013 and I have tried all possible means to get cured, i even visited pulmonologist but all to no avail, until i saw a post in a health forum about a herbal doctor from south Africa who prepare herbal medicine to cure all kind of diseases including Emphysema, at first i doubted if it was real but decided to give it a try, when i contacted this herbal doctor via his email he sent me the Emphysema herbal medicine through courier service, whe
430381 tn?1203881725 Yesterday, My husband got so short of breath that we took him to the emergency room, they admitted him, They've taken to sets of x-rays, but, won't tell him much of what is going on, the doctor did say he'd be in the hospital for a while, and something about his COPD being asperated or something like that, does anyone know what that is? I'm really starting to worry , because no one is really telling us anything. Is it something we should be very concerned about?
Avatar n tn , now went to ER in terrible pain -I was screaming it hurt so bad--there for 3 hours -took blood and XRays found nothing sent me home with ONE painpill after giving me 2 shots of Morphine in 2 hours.....I am a 72 yr. old woman with COPD .What should I do It is debilatating?
Avatar m tn Thanks for the reply :-) Tried the antihistamine last night, can't say i noticed a difference, but then i did fall asleep fairly soon after taking it! I do breathe deeper when exercising, but no more than anyone else i know - what bothers me most is when i feel like im not getting enough air when im just watching telly, talking or eating, hence why i did the spiro.
Avatar n tn t care for this and she wants to spend her last days without it and the attorney-in fact for her health care called us to tell us she is voluntarily taking the mask off tomorrow. they have promised us that they are going to make her as comfortable as possible but no one knows what will happen or expect to happen. what will happen from now once she removes the oxygen. what can we expect and do you have any suggestion for medications (like sedation) that may help her not to suffer.
Avatar f tn https://www.webmd.com/lung/copd/ss/slideshow-copd-overview Here is an older post by a MedHelp doctor: https://www.medhelp.org/posts/Cancer/what-is-suspicious-right-upper-lobe-streaky-and-hazy-density-means/show/605916 Basically, they say that findings such as this can be anything from pneumonia to another lung ailment. Immflamation can cause these densities. Here is a comprehensive article on something to talk about with your doctor as to why you may have this immflamation. https://www.
146298 tn?1258712247 s landed my in the ER and pneumonia twice(that i recall) that was in both lungs and almost killed me and walking pneumonia once, which was in both lungs and gave me a fever of 105. Those have been, one of them, every year, for like 5 years, before that every other year, cuz those times I had strep throat so bad I had to be taken to the ER cuz I actually could not breathe.
213398 tn?1202670474 Two episodes of acute or sub-acute bronchitis in a period of 7 months, in a person who has smoked heavily for 15 years is almost certainly indicative of chronic airway damage, secondary to cigarette smoke and a sign of increased risk for the development of COPD. You should heed this warning signal and engage in smoking cessation immediately. Should you continue to smoke, it will be only a matter of time until you develop full-blown COPD, by both clinical and pathologic criteria.
Avatar n tn no, hydrocodone is vicodin. Morphine sulfate is the active ingredient in morphine. If you are worried about a possible reaction to the medication, I would speak to your local pharmacists. I'm not sure if hydrocodone and morphine are in the same family of drugs. I know vicodin and percocet are in a similar family (due to codine), but morphine is much different. refer to this website. http://www.rxlist.com/duramorph-drug.
Avatar m tn 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.
Avatar n tn My wife has COPD and we live in florida, cold weather seems to worsen her condition yet living in this area withouth aird conditioning is impossible. We come from New England and the cold weather there also bothers her terribly. Is there any specific thing we can do including relocation to help her condition? When the air conditioner is on I can get the humidity down to 40% at 71 degrees, but when she steps outside into the 90 degree 70% humidity or vise versa she has a most difficult time.
Avatar m tn I myself and so scared to take any drugs, fear of liver problems. When I had a problem with my shoulder my Dr gave me morphine tablets, cause I was scared to take anything with tylenol in it like loritab or some things like that, but the morphine made me feel sick so I suffered though the pain and took nothing. Ask your Dr what is liver friendly. Good luck, sorry I wasn't much help.