Pain relief med

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  1. Anyone had poor experience with codeine as pain relief? My husband is prescribed paracetamol and codeine; codeine dose increased a week ago. He's experiencing episodes of shakiness, cold/clammy, low body temp, fluctuating high to low BP and head feeling all over the place. Wondering if this is down to Codeine although it helps with pain.  He did not react too well with oramorph either
  • Codeine doesn’t work for me but Oramorph does work for certain pains.

    My question would be where are your OH’s pains?

    All my pain relief is set and reset by the hospice doctors who are expert in pain relief.

    Where is you're advice coming from?

    I would report back to the GP or whomever and chat to a pharmacist to sort the pills you have.

    Good luck

  • Pain meds are set by hospital consultant but seen across by hospice and GP pharmacist. We will explore with further 

  • Thanks for responding 

  • Hello  

    It all depends on who has prescribed the medication and you need to go back to them:

    * If it's the GP he needs to know and check with the pharmacist - there could be a "medication clash" causing this.

    * If it's the hospital it could be the same issue - although some hospitals/hospices have a specialist "pain clinic" who could help.

    I do hope you get this sorted.

    Best wishes - Brian.

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  • Hospital cons prescribed but yesterday I had to call hospice as they are in touch with us and I had to call GP out too as i was so concerned.