Morphine overdose hospice

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Avatar n tn so my question is , in hospice, is this what they do? do they assist medically by giving overdose of morphine to patients they think are dying anyway?
Avatar f tn as a fistula and that her death was not as imminent as we were told by the previous Hospice. Regardless, they continued my mother on morphine - 30 mg q 3 hours via G tube. Other than the fistula, my mother's condition has not changed. Yes she is depressed, confused, distracted... which is damage done by the stroke. But her vitals are stable and the only pain she refers to is that of her right side limbs, which she has been complaining of since her stroke 18 months ago.
Avatar f tn He is in hospice. On 10 milligrams of morphine every six hrs. Worried he will get addicted to the morphine. He is very jaundiced. Itches. Barely eats. Does have strong heart. Any help?
Avatar f tn Relative has terminal skin cancer of the face/head. Under hospice care. Yesterday we could not get a blood pressure reading on left arm or wrist using 2 different monitors. Hospice nurse felt very weak pulse in foot as well. Any suggestions as to what this might be? Blood clot, stroke, no circulation to left side? Also, left arm is tingling and cannot use arm to lift herself from chair.
1751415 tn?1315069443 Recently the hospice staff put him on morphine. His appetite has picked up just a bit. When I asked about it the nurse said morphine is known to increase a person's appetite. Is this true???
Avatar f tn s symptoms must be well controlled by opiates or morphine and hospice sees no benefit continuing dobutaminw
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 t say enough good things about hospice. Doctors rarely speculate about how long a person has left but the hospice team will do everything they can to keep you informed and will know when the end is near Please take care of yourself as well during this very difficult time. It sounds like your brother has already put the people he loves through many heartbreaks and challenges.
Avatar f tn 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....
Avatar n tn As far as pain, don't think Morphine is 'it'....there are many options. Home or inpatient hospice services and doctors can prescribe different types and options. One thing that worked for my mom (even during treatment stages) was a portable PCA pump with Dilaudid. This went intravenously three or four times an hour with the option to give a 'breakthrough' or 'relief' dosage when the pain broke through.
Avatar n tn Although 12 hrs have passed,but still clinical examination from a doctor is mandatory to rule out any morphine overdose. Morphine overdose occurs when a person intentionally or accidentally takes too much of the medicine. I hope that helps. Please do keep me posted on how you are doing or if you have any additional queries. Kind regards.
Avatar n tn If you google kadian it will give you drug information and included in that info is what to do in the event of an overdose and what things to look for to determine if it is indeed an overdose. Don't mess around here - and call 911 if he doesn't look right. Now is not the time to second guess the situation. Good luck to you.
Avatar m tn Aloha all, I forgot to add that I went off the morphine once before and on the third day after I started having WD's and took some more morphine, wish I would have just stayed off and would probably be OK by now.
570405 tn?1216957944 I am so sorry. Isn't there anything more they can give your wife for the pain? I can't believe she is just supposed to suffer this way? I don't know if she's in a hospital or at home, but can you call hospice? The hospice people are very good at controlling pain.
Avatar f tn My husband died last week after 12 hours of horrible suffering. Vitas Hospice of Orange County would give him only methodone and I was told by a nurse AFTER his death that he should have had morphene . Now I am nearly suicidal with regret. How can I live with the guilt and is it warrented?
Avatar f tn hot stomach, loss of muscle tone, lack of appetite, and lack of energy. She is at home on hospice care, stage IV. She was diagnosed on June 12, 2009. Her home nurse is nice and sweet and tells her she is doing well. Hospice sends morphine and constipation medication. Both of which she does not need and does not use.
Avatar m tn My mom is dying from anapalastic thyroid cancer. She has been on a morphine pump for a little over a week. She stopped food and water intake a couple of days ago. Her kidneys and liver have started to fail. (this we know from information from our wonderful hospice nurse) I was wondering how long on average a person will survive once their food and water intake stops?
Avatar n tn I am caring for my Father in law that has this disease. Hospice says he is atypical with his disease.He was diagnosed with ALS in 2002. I have taken care of him (Primary) as well as my husband and now my son for the last 3 years and Hospice a year and a half. He has no use of his legs or hands since the first 6months. He was in a Nursing home but we brought him home In the last few months I have watched his urine change color to amber then bloody looking to normal yellow. He coughs at times.
Avatar n tn In my case my Dad had congestive heart failure, was put on hospice care, stabilized and came off hospice after 6 months. The next year they found cancer throughout his body, was put back on hospice care. He so wanted to die at home and we did all we could to care for him. It reached a point that the stress from my Mom's behavior and the extreme fatigue of caring for him wore us out. He agreed to go to a hospice facility for just a few days to give us all a break.
Avatar f tn My father died from this at a early age hospice was giving him morphine,,,i dont see her going thri much with the changein my dads case his mind went with his body in perfect health it took forever for his body to give out but when it did i was at the point i was happy for him,,,in my mind this is the worst way to go,,,if i was reliving this and i was put in this position if the.
Avatar m tn 42 am, she was administered morphine and robinul x 1 stat. She instantly died. Did the combination, that close together have any possibility of causing her death?
Avatar m tn can you take percet with morphine sulfate er 30mg? in other words can you mix the two together?
Avatar m tn I was wondering if Fentynal patches contain even the slightest amount of morphine in them. A friend of mine is dealing with a terminal illness along with terrible pain. They gave him Fentynal patches(heavey guns) and he claims that someone said that they contain just a small amout of Morphine. He has had some eally bad experiences with Morphine and he is scared to use the patch. I told him I would try to ask my new friends on MedHelp first. Does anyone out there have a clue if this is true?
Avatar n tn Can a baby overdose off of hydrocodone, oxycodone , or Roxycodone through breast milk if the mother takes the right dosage, or slightly more, only once a day and not everyday. If he breastfeeds while its in the mothers system, is sleepiness a sign of overdosing? If so, can l the overdose possibly death happen after the mother is no longer on medication?