Pain meds

My advice is don’t suffer

There isn’t a “time” to do this you do it when you need to  

Up your pain meds to cope with background pain especially and use your tube. 
I didn’t swallow anything for six weeks. I’m great now and can eat well 

Hi MarK

My CNS was quite firm with me on pain meds, told me not to suffer unnecessary pain, guidelines were given on safe dosages... mostly for Oramorph....I certainly took the advice.... Started using my feeding tube as soon a my weight started dropping off.

Difflam and Difflam spray were used bigtime 

Take care 

Peter 

Thanks Dani 

Will ask today for something today . Thanks Peter

Eating?  I was told to use Oramorph 10-15 minutes before eating.... swirl it around the mouth/throat area to ease the swallow pain 

Peter 

Spider3 said:

Will ask today for something today

I was on oramorph every four hours with paracetamol in between. 
When the background pain got too much and I was waking in the night for too ups I had long acting morphine twice daily. It was a godsend 

The other replies you have had are spot on, don't suffer take as many meds as you need. My consultant asked me one day how the pain was, I said it's quite bearable, she said that's not good enough, she didn't want me to have any pain and increased my meds. Start using your RIG as soon as you need to, don't try to force feed yourself. 

Thanks Ray , was just upset giving in so soon. 

Don't think you have given in, you haven't. Your body is taking a battering at the moment, and it needs all the help it can get. You will get there.

Ray.

Thanks Ray